Unforgettable (Always #2)
by Lexxie Couper
Blurb:
Brendon Osmond’s
an optimist, a fitness geek, a man with a plan and the drive to achieve it.
He’s sure he knows everything there is to know about his life and where it’s
headed—until he gets one brief text.
A text from her.
Amanda. The girl
who broke his heart.
‘Thinking of you.’
Just three little
words, but they’re enough to make Brendon drop everything and head half way
around the world to see her.
Acting only on
gut instinct, nothing can prepare Brendon for the truth he’s about to learn.
A truth Amanda
kept from him for almost two years. A truth who has Brendon’s eyes and claims
his heart in an instant.
A truth that
comes with a devastating diagnosis with the power to destroy everything he
never knew he wanted or held dear.
Themes: Contemporary
Rating: 3 stars
Heat Rating: 
Review:
Ok I’m gonna have to be honest here, while I have
loved just about everything ever written by Lexxie Couper, this one was nowhere
near my favorite and I am not going to be going back or finishing this
series. To my understanding this series
was written a while ago under one of Ms. Couper’s pseudonyms and I can honestly
say that I would not ever associate this story with her current writing style
or any other story of hers I have read.
Yes, other series have had seriously heavy themes to overcome in the
love story as well, but this one was just too much and there was too much going
on in way too short a time for me to find it either believable or
enjoyable. The premise of the story is
that a young man is called to make a long journey back into the arms of the
girl that broke his heart once, only to have his world turned upside down again
and again as he is forced to come to terms with secrets and drama. I couldn’t relate to Brendon at all, being
that I am pretty much the opposite of an optimist, but I was intrigued at the
way he was able to roll with the punches (and there were a LOT of them) and
find a way to put himself back together again.
Amanda on the other hand was one of those girls (sorry I just can’t call
her a woman) that I can’t bring myself to like.
I can understand her fears, but keeping the secrets she did and then
springing everything on Brendon the way she did multiple times... that level of
immaturity was just unforgivable in my opinion.
The passion between them was undeniable and it was obvious to see that
they loved one another despite all the issues they were dealing with. This
story has so much going on in really less than a three-day time period, that it’s
just too much to comprehend and process for the reader and to expect Brendon to
either. The fact that there was so much
against Brendon and Amanda, more than just the obvious, makes it just too much
and had it been spread into perhaps a few months, I might have been able to
believe the story better. I will say
that some readers will love the story, but it was just not my thing. I am looking forward to what comes from Lexxie
in other series, but I doubt I will be back for the last in this one.
*eARC provided by author for the
purpose of an honest and unbiased review.
No compensation was provided.
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