From USA Today Bestselling Author Aly Martinez comes an emotional new standalone.
Growing up, Ramsey Stewart branded my soul in ways time could never heal.
At twelve, he asked me to be his girlfriend.
At thirteen, he gave me my first kiss.
By sixteen, we’d fallen in love, planned a future together, and had our eyes set on the horizon.
Love never fails, right?
But for Ramsey, it did.
Love failed him.
I failed him.
The entire world failed him.
At seventeen, Ramsey was convicted of killing the boy who assaulted me.
Move on, he wrote in his first and only letter from prison.
Start a new life, he urged.
I don’t love you anymore, he lied.
There was no such thing as giving up on Ramsey. Love may have been our curse, but he was mine—then, now, and forever.
So here I am, twelve long years later, waiting for a man I don't even know to emerge from between the chain link gates.
Review
One of the things that I love the most about books from Aly Martinez is the romance side. She shows the type of coupling that I would like to see in a relationship. It’s easier to lose myself in the story because I can always see a part of me in the characters. This story was the first story that I had a hard time to connect to. There were some things that I could connect, but it was hard for me to connect to Ramsey or Thea.
With that said, I tried to separate the stories and expectations that I had from the past and look at this objectively. Ramsey and Thea meet under difficult situation. Thea wants nothing to do with Ramsey and he does not seem to care. It’s cute watching their hate turn into love as they get older until life comes and tears them apart. Ramsey doesn’t return to Thea the way he left and Thea does what she can to get her best friend back. This is where the problems I have begin.
I have always liked that the female characters in Martinez’s books are always strong women, but Thea was a bit whiny for me. She just gets so annoyed and whiny because Ramsey just doesn’t return to her with open arms. When he left, he has good reason to be upset but it takes her some time to realize that maybe he just needs to adjust having her back in his life instead of just jumping right into it.
The story itself was a great story. A lot of twists and turns and a big reveal. The only thing that I wished is we got more of a resolution with this. There is this big reveal, but we get half answers and it just left me with more questions then anything else.
While it may not be my favorite of Martinez’s books, it was still worth the read. Especially if you can get it on Kindle Unlimited.
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About Aly
Originally from Savannah, Georgia, USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez now lives in South Carolina with her husband and four young children.
Never one to take herself too seriously, she enjoys cheap wine, mystery leggings, and olives. It should be known, however, that she hates pizza and ice cream, almost as much as writing her bio in the third person.
She passes what little free time she has reading anything and everything she can get her hands on, preferably with a super-sized tumbler of wine by her side.
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