Forever & Always by Jasinda Wilder
This review is from 2013 and is kept here for reference. Titles, prices and availability may have changed.
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Recommendation
When you start to read this book, know you will need at least one box of tissues, a moment to wallow in the emotions drawn out of you, and uninterrupted alone time. The uninterrupted alone time is both for getting to experience the emotions without breaks and for, well, the afterglow of some of the most intense sex scenes I’ve ever read. [Aside: Jasinda, you’ve topped yourself with the sexing scenes. They’re long and intense and nearly cheesy but SO completely not.] Forever & Always is the first of the trilogy, with the second book, After Forever, being released alongside this one. The third, Saving Forever, will be out shortly after these two are released. The entirety of Ever (one of my favorite names) and Caden’s story is told over the trilogy, so if you’re not one who loves cliffhangers (like me), you may want to wait to read them all together. Thank the sweet baby Jesus and indie authors like Jasinda that we don’t have to wait months and years for the story to be complete. Once again, Jasinda has given us an emotional roller coaster that is a MUST read. [December 2013]
Publisher synopsis
Ever,
These letters are often all that get me through week to week. Even if it’s just random stuff, nothing important, they’re important to me. Gramps is great, and I love working on the ranch. But…I’m lonely. I feel disconnected, like I’m no one, like I don’t belong anywhere. Like I’m just here until something else happens. I don’t even know what I want with my future. But your letters, they make me feel connected to something, to someone. I had a crush on you, when we first met. I thought you were beautiful. So beautiful. It was hard to think of anything else. Then camp ended and we never got together, and now all I have of you is these letters. S**t. I just told you I have a crush on you. HAD. Had a crush. Not sure what is anymore. A letter-crush? A literary love? That’s stupid. Sorry. I just have this rule with myself that I never throw away what I write and I always send it, so hopefully this doesn’t weird you out too much. I had a dream about you too. Same kind of thing. Us, in the darkness, together. Just us. And it was like you said, a memory turned into a dream, but a memory of something that’s never happened, but in the dream it felt so real, and it was more, I don’t even know, more RIGHT than anything I’ve ever felt, in life or in dreams. I wonder what it means that we both had the same dream about each other. Maybe nothing, maybe everything. You tell me.
Cade
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Cade,
We’re pen pals. Maybe that’s all we’ll ever be. I don’t know. If we met IRL (in real life, in case you’re not familiar with the term) what would happen? And just FYI, the term you used, a literary love? It was beautiful. So beautiful. That term means something, between us now. We are literary loves. Lovers? I do love you, in some strange way. Knowing about you, in these letters, knowing your hurt and your joys, it means something so important to me, that I just can’t describe. I need your art, and your letters, and your literary love. If we never have anything else between us, I need this. I do. Maybe this letter will only complicate things, but like you I have a rule that I never erase or throw away what I’ve written and I always send it, no matter what I write in the letter.
Your literary love,
Ever
Review published December 19, 2013