Beside Your Heart by Mary Whitney
This review is from 2013 and is kept here for reference. Titles, prices and availability may have changed.
- Stars
- ★★★★½
- Heat
- Fire
Recommendation
Thank GOODNESS I found out there will be a sequel to Beside Your Heart. I got all the way through, crying my eyeballs out of my face, pretend-lecturing these kids in my head, only to get to the end and say, “I NEED MORE.” Beside Your Heart is apparently the first half of a story that, thank GOD, will continue. Though it doesn’t *really* end in a cliffhanger—kind of, -ish, in a way—it does end with the story only partially told. Don’t worry about waiting until the next book comes out to read this one. It’s written in such a way that you won’t miss out on details when the story continues. Sure I believe in the adage, “all good things must come to an end,” but there is no end to this book. It’s only the start, and I need the rest! [June 2013]
Publisher synopsis
Was he The One who got away?
Late one night, Nicki Johnson plays with emotional fire and Googles her high school love, only to find his name splashed across the British gossip columns. Back in his native England, Adam Kincaid is successful and dating a woman from an aristocratic family like his own. With a career in politics, Nicki's no slouch, but she knows Adam is living a world away from her life.
Yet there was a time he was no farther than the next locker. Nicki will never forget their year together in high school–the year of her sister's death, the year her mother checked out. Adam helped Nicki through suffocating grief, and she led him through coming of age. But when is a high school crush something more?
Review published June 21, 2013