"that is what true love is. true love is saying to someone "forget about us, we'll be okay." when it might not even be true, when the last thing you want is to be forgotten."
pages: 321
heard/read: 7/15-17/2020
book: 59 in 2020
Have you ever heard of supernovas? They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly, a short burst of extraordinary energy. I like to think you and Ben were like that . . . in that short time, you had more passion than some people have in a lifetime.
Elsie Porter is an average twentysomething and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year's Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one. She isn't expecting to see anyone else in the shop, much less the adorable and charming Ben Ross. Their chemistry is instant and electric. Ben cannot even wait twenty-four hours before asking to see her again. Within weeks, the two are head over heels in love. By May, they've eloped.
Only nine days later, Ben is out riding his bike when he is hit by a truck and killed on impact. Elsie hears the sirens outside her apartment, but by the time she gets downstairs, he has already been whisked off to the emergency room. At the hospital, she must face Susan, the mother-in-law she has never met and who doesn't even know Elsie exists.
Interweaving Elsie and Ben's charmed romance with Elsie and Susan's healing process, Forever, Interrupted will remind you that there's more than one way to find a happy ending.
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Elsie Porter is an average twentysomething and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year's Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one. She isn't expecting to see anyone else in the shop, much less the adorable and charming Ben Ross. Their chemistry is instant and electric. Ben cannot even wait twenty-four hours before asking to see her again. Within weeks, the two are head over heels in love. By May, they've eloped.
Only nine days later, Ben is out riding his bike when he is hit by a truck and killed on impact. Elsie hears the sirens outside her apartment, but by the time she gets downstairs, he has already been whisked off to the emergency room. At the hospital, she must face Susan, the mother-in-law she has never met and who doesn't even know Elsie exists.
Interweaving Elsie and Ben's charmed romance with Elsie and Susan's healing process, Forever, Interrupted will remind you that there's more than one way to find a happy ending.
THOUGHTS
idk how to start this one.
i mean, i liked it.
it was a good story. i guess i would say that i am indifferent about it.
in this one you meet Elsie and Ben and you go along the history of their relationship. they were married for 9 days before Ben passes away. so the story is mostly about the lead up to their wedding and the aftermath of his death.
i liked the way it was written and how its kinda full circle-ish in the sense that once the story ends, i wouldn't say its the end of Elsie's mourning but the beginning of a new life for her. and i loved it even more that she decides to start anew with Mr. Callahan.
i found her relationship with Susan, Ben's mother, kinda true? maybe...is that the way i would word it? idk. i mean obvs in the beginning they didn't click and that believable but i like that in the end they're their own little family even if its just them two.
i know the story is about Elsie but i would've liked to have seen what happened between Anna & Kevin.....aaannnd i wish there would have been some more of a heart to heart resolution between Anna and Elsie.
read THIS review if you want something better....detailed. she said it better than i ever will.
overall it was a good read. i mean i was up til about 330 am reading it so yea.....i just don't really have much to say about it so yea....onto the next!
anyway, jump over for quick spoilers....there isn't really much to spoil about this story.
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Ben was on his bike when he was hit.
he had gone to get cereal for Elsie because she wanted some.
she waited and waited and got worried and went to go look for him when she sees the accident.
the police officer takes her to the hospital where she runs into Ben's mom who of course didn't know they were married.
at first Susan doesn't really care for Elsie but in the end they end up forming a friendship.
uh.....they are married but Ben had put his social down wrong on the license which is why she wasn't getting the certificate months later in the mail but luckily a lady calls her and manages to fix it for her.
you see their relationship evolve but also see its cracks along the way.
and uh, yeah....
there's really not much to spoil here so yea.
i guess ill leave it at that.
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