Author - Abbi Glines
Series - Untitled #1
ISBN - 9780988301351
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Paperback
Genre - New Adult > Romance
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Amazon UK - Amazon US - Barnes & Noble - IBooks
One memory.
One special summer.
The one thing Bliss had lost herself in when the fear and sickness were too much, moments never to be damaged by the harsh reality that followed… until now.
Bliss York didn’t live a normal teenage life. She didn’t go to Friday night football games, walk the halls with her friends every day, go to her prom or even walk to receive her diploma. It had all been taken from her the fall that she was fifteen years old and she was given the diagnosis no one ever wants to hear.
She had leukemia.
Seven years after spending a summer with a girl who he knew would always be his first love and the one who got away, Nate Finlay returns to Sea Breeze to help his fiancé open her new boutique clothing store. When the new employee walks in Nate is taken back seven years to the girl he thought he’d love forever. The one who never answered his calls or returned his text. The one who shut him out completely with not even a goodbye and broke his heart.
They’ve each become someone different. No longer the young teens with stars in their eyes. But does that matter when your heart still says that’s the one.
This was probably one of my most anticipated books of this year, i have been waiting for this book since i read the last two words of Until The End in November 2014, it was finally here and it didn't disappoint.
If you haven't read it yet i will not be spoiling you here i will wait a few weeks until i do a spoiler's review, but it would be difficult to talk about their parents and the people around them without spoiling some from the Rosemary Beach/Sea Breeze Series so fair warning if you haven't read those and intend to.
First off i want to go back to my theories post, from a few weeks ago, and for the most part i was right just for the wrong reasoning, i will get more into it in the spoiler review.
Reading this book, as someone who has read and loved the Rosemary Beach and Sea Breeze series' it was like coming home. I feel even though it can be read without reading those series, but you aren't invested as much, you don't know the struggle Eva went through when her father was diagnosed. You don't know why Nate's grandpop would say 'when you meet a girl you still love when shes a woman then you don't give that up.' I feel like you don't get the entire story but at the same time the way it is written if you are a new reader to this world then you wont be confused because there are no secret jokes or anything like that.
Bliss, was strong and that is one of the main reason i love Glines' books is that even though most of her characters go through the ringer but they always come out the other side stronger and i like that this book reflected that when Nate looked at her.
Nate on the other hand was a lot like all the other men in Glines' series' he is afraid of love, even though he admits he loved Bliss when he was younger but tries to convince himself it was lust. We see Nate go through unimaginable pain and still he fights on.
There were so many characters in this series i cannot talk about them all, but the ones to look out for in the future that i think are going to be so much fun are Micah, Jude, Saffron, Holland, Lila Kate, Larissa, Cruz York, Cruz Kerrington, Cord, And Clay. There were so many more and i want books for every one but i think the next book will wither be Lila Kate's or Cruz York's since they were both sort of set up in this one.
The story, albeit short was packed full of goodness, there are some scenes that have been missed out that i would of liked to see but maybe we will get to see them from other characters POV's in the coming books.
Abbi Glines has done it again this is a truly wonderful book and it was heartbreaking and beautiful and funny all rolled into one beautiful package. I am truly grateful that this series exists.
Until Next Time
Happy Reading
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