♥︎ Heather ⚔ (New House-Hiatus)'s Reviews > Forever, Interrupted

⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ “𝐼 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝒹𝒾𝒹𝓃’𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝑔𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓃. 𝐼 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒷𝒶𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝑒𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒽𝓊𝒷𝓇𝒾𝓈. 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒹𝑜𝓃’𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝑒𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝓂𝑒, 𝓅𝑒𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝒻𝓇𝒶𝑔𝒾𝓁𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝒾𝓈, 𝓅𝑒𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓊𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝒶 𝒽𝒾𝑔𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇. 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝒾𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓈. 𝐼𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑒.”

“𝒩𝑜 𝓂𝒶𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓇𝑒, 𝓃𝑜 𝓂𝒶𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒷𝑒, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓎 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝓎𝑜𝓊. 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝓉 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒹𝑜 𝒾𝓈 𝒽𝑜𝓁𝒹 𝑜𝓃.” ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

╰┈➤˗ˏˋ OMG TJR punched me right in the heart within the first chapter in this one!! To say that I completely related to the FMC is such an understatement.

⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ ALL. THE. STARS. ݁₊ ✶. ݁ ˖ˎˊ˗

➺ Little bit of context- my husband was killed in a motorcycle accident (many years ago), no he was not getting me fruity pebbles but he was on his way to work. I went through almost all of these stages that Elsie did. I've never read the synopses for TJR's works because DUHH it's TJR and I devour every single one of her books, no blurb necessary.

Anyway, it's been a good long while since I have had a novel truly gut punch me and emotionally break me down, no surprise it was Jenkins Reid to do it. And I LOVED it.

In typical fashion with this author I was immediately pulled into the story and it had me in a chokehold until the very end. She really just has the ability to write her characters to be so relatable, so realistic.. they are honestly always someone I could see myself being friends with, I feel this is one of the factors that gives her the ability to rip my heart out , repair it and place in neatly back in my chest.


╰┈➤˗ˏˋ We follow Elsie our FMC who has just recently within a week gotten married to her relatively short term boyfriend. They were caught up in an epic love that hit hard and fast. Ben goes out on his bicycle to go pick up a box of fruity pebbles per his new wife's request and is struck by a vehicle and killed.

The author does such an amazingly accurate and descriptive job of taking us through the process of losing your true love and all of the things that you are bombarded with.

The whole process of allowing yourself to grieve, get angry, take it out on the wrong people, ask for forgiveness, deal with people that think they know your partner better than you do, get angry again, fall apart and put yourself back together again before the grief consumes you completely.

˗ˏˋ ꒰ ♡ ꒱ ˎˊ˗

⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ “𝐼 𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝒶𝓉 𝓂𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐼 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝐼 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝒸𝑒. 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝒽𝑒’𝓈 𝑔𝑜𝓃𝑒. 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓃𝑜 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝓂𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒.”


“𝐼’𝓂 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝓇𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒷𝑒 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓏𝒾𝑔𝓏𝒶𝑔𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃’𝓉 𝒾𝓂𝒶𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑒. 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝑜𝓃’𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓏𝑒 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓃𝑔 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓁 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃’𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒.”

“𝒲𝒽𝒶𝓉’𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝑜𝒾𝓃𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒶 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓂𝒾𝓈𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓌𝒶𝓎? 𝐻𝑜𝓌 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝓌𝑒 𝑒𝓍𝓅𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝓅𝑒𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝓉𝒾𝒸𝓀 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹 𝒶𝓇𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝓊𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝑜 𝒶𝓇𝒷𝒾𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓇𝓎, 𝓊𝓃𝓇𝑒𝓁𝒾𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓈𝑒𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈?” ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆