We were the ultimate example of that couple who can’t live with each other, but can’t seem to function without each other.
The minute I met Callum Strass at fifteen, I was a goner. We were the golden couple of our high school. The king and queen of prom, the sweethearts voted most likely to get married and have babies, and the absolute idiots who decided to attend the same college.
Because that’s when it all fell apart. The naïve, puppy love versions of ourselves couldn’t see the obvious cracks we’d had back in our hometown. But they sure revealed themselves when we started living in an off-campus house together with four of our other friends.
Within a semester, blow-out fights, jealousy, every-other-week breakups, and my abandonment issues had him bowing out. Not just on me, but on the house, too. Until our senior year, when his parents refuse to keep paying rent on two places.
So he moves back in, and I’m forced to live with my ex. The one who has ruined all other men for me. The one I still cry myself to sleep at night thinking about. The one who confesses, during a run-in in a dark hallway, that he hates how much he still loves me.
And when he starts dating again, he might as well plunge a knife straight through my heart. Despite our breakup, I’m on the verge of losing him for real this time, and possibly forever. The only option is to seek help for my deep-seated trauma, the thing that Callum always encouraged me to see someone about. The thing that eventually pushed him away.
Put two of the most driven, headstrong, and passionate people in any relationship and it’s bound to combust. We’ve always had that twin flame kind of love.
So, together we might burn. But we also might heal.
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My Review
I received an advanced copy of this book with the promise of an honest review.
While this book is NA, it definitely gives off a lot of marriage in trouble vibes. Bevan and Callum have been together for years, but when their relationship is broken beyond repair, they part ways. It obvious that they are still in love, but when they are together, they just don't work anymore. Callum moves out of the house he shares with Bevan and his other friends, but he finds himself back there when he can't find a replacement roommate.
This book is about two people trying to find their way back to each other. It was frustrating at times and I wanted to reach into my book and shake the heck out of both of them. Again, think marriage in trouble, but with college students. Bevan has issues within herself that she needs to address and Callum has to get a new perspective of their relationship in order to see that they are both to blame for it's demise.
Once I was able to sit down, with no interruptions, I got through this book pretty quickly. It's a great addition to the series and if you've read the other books, you should definitely read this one.
Author of romance novels such as Fool Me Twice and Love at First Fight, Carrie Aarons writes books that are just as swoon-worthy as they are sarcastic. A former journalist, she prefers the love stories of her imagination, and the athleisure dress code, much better.
When she isn't writing, Carrie is busy binging reality TV, having a love/hate relationship with cardio, and trying not to burn dinner. She lives in the suburbs of New Jersey with her husband, two children and ninety-pound rescue pup.
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