Just
a little warning if you haven’t read the first of this series, Forever
Innocent, READ that one first! It is incredible. My review for it is here.
Okay
so now for my review of Deanna Roy’s Forever Loved. I was sucked into
the continuing story of Corabelle and Gavin. I had so much hope and
expectations for them during their first book, but when all of the secrets came
out in the end and Corabelle decided she wanted the ocean to swallow her and
not give her back (literally), I was shattered and couldn’t wait to see what
happened next. But I had to wait… 3 MONTHS! But it was worth the wait.
4 Heart-Twisting Stars!
Synopsis:
“How do I tell the woman I love that I
fathered a son with a prostitute?”
After
four long years of separation, Gavin has finally reunited with his childhood
love Corabelle. She’s forgiven him for leaving her during the funeral of their
seven-day-old baby, and also for where he ended up — in Mexico to get a
vasectomy.
A
message from Rosa, a prostitute he met the day of his surgery, brings his life
to a crashing halt. She claims Gavin has fathered a son, now three years old
and living with her cousin in Ensenada. He doesn’t know if he can trust Rosa,
who never mentioned the boy before, or if his delicate reconciliation with
Corabelle can withstand the shock if it is true.
Corabelle
believes their future together is the right thing despite their past. But when she
learns of this other child, the one thing she lost long ago and might never
have again with Gavin, Corabelle’s faith that her life will ever follow her old
dream is shattered. To make things right for Gavin and his son, she just might
have to let go of the only person she always believed would be her forever
love.
Corabelle
kind of got on my nerves here and there when she wouldn’t speak her mind or
swing to the other side of spectrum and overreact, but I’m sure I would be the
same way if I was stuck in the hospital with my boyfriend and parents
constantly arguing. I tended to overlook these things when Corabelle started
making decisions about her actions (and reactions) that were tough on her, but
made her stronger. I could see she was growing as a person and no longer numb
to life.
Gavin
continued to stay in my good graces and on my I’m-rooting-for-you list even
though some of his actions throughout the book would suggest he was just
bailing on Corabelle again. He was growing up, making difficult decisions,
fighting for his love and what he believed to be right.
Enter
Rosa and Manuelito. The prostitute and the son. Gavin had to make a life
altering decision when he got the call that he was a father to a three-year old
boy. Why did it have to be a boy? Gavin had a son and Corabelle didn’t. Life
seemed to putting them through the ringer.
Life
is never easy, life will always be throwing curve balls, but it is how we deal
with them that define our strengths and our weaknesses.
Corabelle
and Gavin’s strengths powered through more than most and I fell more in love
with them, their relationship and their missing piece; Finn.
Deanna’s
phenomenal writing in the first book carries to this one, keeping the
characters true to their personalities while changing them right before your
eyes.
Get It Now!
(I
received an ARC via the author for my review and this is my honest-to-goodness,
straight from the heart review!)
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