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Forgetting August by J.L. Berg
5.0
Imagine what you would do if you were to wake up from a coma and remember nothing. Would you reinvent yourself? Would you strive to be someone new? Or would you try to be who you once were? Well, August has found that the person he used to be is someone he doesn’t really like. And he’s finding that because the one person his body, not his mind, can remember seems to be Everly. Beautiful, red-headed Everly. She strikes something deep within him, and he knows she meant something tremendous to him. Yet, she’s scared of him, hates him, doesn’t want anything to do with him. Why? What happened to August, and subsequently them?
“‘I don’t know why or how, but it’s only ever been you since the moment I woke up.'”
Everly has been living with the ghost of August for two years. He’s neither dead nor awake, but she sees him everywhere. She’s plagued with equal parts love and hate for the man who nearly ruined her. It doesn’t matter that she’s moved on, has found a caring, loving man to love her, August still haunts her. When he wakes, that ghost is now a physical haunting. She’s torn between past and present. The man–no, monster–doesn’t remember a thing, and yet it’s tattooed on her eyes: the deep love, the falling apart, the hatred. How to separate the past man to who he is now? And will it last?
“Life may be difficult, but loving someone…whether it’s right or wrong, that should be the easy part. And loving August had always been as easy as breathing.”
August, on the other hand, can’t understand what tore them apart. All of the pictures of them seem to point to a happy, loving relationship. He still feels that strong pull in his heart for her, no matter that his memories are gone. And while he tries to be the better person and just let her go, neither of them can break of the string that connects them. His desperate need to understand, to remember, is breaking the both of them into pieces. Jagged, bereft pieces that don’t really belong together, but are still connected. Can he start anew? Can he create a new, better August?
“‘I think it’s time for the bird to fly, Everly.'”
J.L. Berg creates a skillfully written journey forging heartbreak and heart growth. With a broken woman and the shell of a man, she takes us on the journey of redemption, fresh start, and the sometimes too-hard-truth. You’re like August, amnesiac just as he is to what happened. And while we see the heartbreak of their former life, we get to experience the new, beautiful connection they create together in spite of what got in between them before. With the first story of this duet, we end in a turning point. A big, “SAY WAHHH!?” If you’re not okay with cliffhangers, purchase and read this when the next book comes out. But, if you’re like me, jump into this now. It is a love story with a hell of a broken cog in its structure. You’ll feel the hesitancy, the love, the pain, and the rising tension. The other shoe has to drop sometime, and you can feel the approaching build-up. You don’t want it to happen, but you do because you need to know what happened! I loved it, and NEED the next story ASAP. Such a well-written story that took me on a journey I wasn’t expecting.
**No cheating**Ends in Cliffhanger**
**Received an early copy in exchange for an honest review**
“‘I don’t know why or how, but it’s only ever been you since the moment I woke up.'”
Everly has been living with the ghost of August for two years. He’s neither dead nor awake, but she sees him everywhere. She’s plagued with equal parts love and hate for the man who nearly ruined her. It doesn’t matter that she’s moved on, has found a caring, loving man to love her, August still haunts her. When he wakes, that ghost is now a physical haunting. She’s torn between past and present. The man–no, monster–doesn’t remember a thing, and yet it’s tattooed on her eyes: the deep love, the falling apart, the hatred. How to separate the past man to who he is now? And will it last?
“Life may be difficult, but loving someone…whether it’s right or wrong, that should be the easy part. And loving August had always been as easy as breathing.”
August, on the other hand, can’t understand what tore them apart. All of the pictures of them seem to point to a happy, loving relationship. He still feels that strong pull in his heart for her, no matter that his memories are gone. And while he tries to be the better person and just let her go, neither of them can break of the string that connects them. His desperate need to understand, to remember, is breaking the both of them into pieces. Jagged, bereft pieces that don’t really belong together, but are still connected. Can he start anew? Can he create a new, better August?
“‘I think it’s time for the bird to fly, Everly.'”
J.L. Berg creates a skillfully written journey forging heartbreak and heart growth. With a broken woman and the shell of a man, she takes us on the journey of redemption, fresh start, and the sometimes too-hard-truth. You’re like August, amnesiac just as he is to what happened. And while we see the heartbreak of their former life, we get to experience the new, beautiful connection they create together in spite of what got in between them before. With the first story of this duet, we end in a turning point. A big, “SAY WAHHH!?” If you’re not okay with cliffhangers, purchase and read this when the next book comes out. But, if you’re like me, jump into this now. It is a love story with a hell of a broken cog in its structure. You’ll feel the hesitancy, the love, the pain, and the rising tension. The other shoe has to drop sometime, and you can feel the approaching build-up. You don’t want it to happen, but you do because you need to know what happened! I loved it, and NEED the next story ASAP. Such a well-written story that took me on a journey I wasn’t expecting.
**No cheating**Ends in Cliffhanger**
**Received an early copy in exchange for an honest review**