A Calamity Falls Novel #5
Release Date: February 13
He’s the bad boy quarterback, one scandal away from being traded.
She’s the squeaky-clean pop star with a morality clause hanging around her neck.
And they can’t keep their hands off each other.
Cassian Ellis fell in love with Gigi Cavanaugh when he was fourteen. But he couldn’t have her. His mentor — her dad — promised to take him out of detention and all the way to the pros. The price: stay away from his daughter.
But Gigi was embedded in his soul — there was no distancing himself from her. And, senior year in high school, in a moment of desperation when he couldn’t take all the want and love and lust, he ended things in the worst way possible.
Now, nine years later, he’s forced to do charity work to clean up his party boy image.
And guess who’s working right alongside him?
Gigi can't believe her bad luck. She's on the same Dreams Come True tour as Cassian Ellis. And, with the press recording their every move, she has to pretend to like the man who tore out her heart and stomped all over it.
But Cassian couldn’t be happier since he never stopped loving her. And he’s determined to win her back. Only, someone’s leaking photographs, and headlines about the bad boy quarterback corrupting the squeaky-clean pop star could sink both their dreams.
Can their love overcome all the world has put between them?
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Elizabeth's Review
3.25 Stars - More than an Average Read
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It was Always You is book that I really wanted to love. At the end of the day I found myself liking it and being a little frustrated with it, but I couldn't love it.
The premise of the book is great. High school friends/secret crushes reunite 10 years later and are given a second chance to repair what was broken. The characters of Gigi and Cassian are both interesting people and I enjoyed getting to know them. The issue with the book for me was the execution.
I don't want to give anything away, but there were two big things that kept this from being a higher rated book for me. The first was the timeline - After 9 years apart, Gigi and Cassian are on a goodwill tour together for one week. In this amount of time, they are supposed to repair a decade worth of hurt/misunderstanding and begin to move forward. And all of this happens around the 50% mark of the book. The rest of the story seemed to be a type of rinse and repeat of mess up/argue/defend/semi forgive. I really wish the tour portion had been longer and the journey back to romance/attraction had taken a little more time.
The second issue I had was how Gigi handled things. There were times when she seemed to be a strong heroine, but there were other times when she seemed to push the responsibility for her actions (and some of Cassian's) onto other people.
As much as I would have done a few things differently, I did enjoy seeing Cassian and Gigi work to get past what happened their senior year of high school and finish the process of growing up and finally doing things they way they wanted to.
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Award-winning author Erika Kelly has been spinning romantic tales all her life--she just didn't know it. Raised on the classics, she didn't discover romantic fiction until later in life. From that moment on, she's been devouring the genre and has found her true voice as an author. Over three decades she's written poems, screenplays, plays, short stories, and all kinds of women's fiction novels. Married to the love of her life and raising four children, she lives in the northeast, drinks a lot of tea, and is always waiting for her cats to get off her keyboard.
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