Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: Building Forever 
SERIES: The Rebuilding Year #2.5
AUTHOR: Kaje Harper
NARRATOR: Gomez Pugh
PUBLISHER: Self Published
RELEASE DATE: January 2, 2019
LENGTH: 3 hours, 33 minutes
BLURB:
Four years ago, Ryan and John decided they’d wait to get married until it came with full legal equality. Now, thanks to the Supreme Court, that historic moment has finally arrived. But three hundred miles separate Ryan’s hectic residency from John’s busy campus job. With a son in college, a daughter choosing her future, and a rambunctious Irish Setter needing attention, planning a wedding isn’t simple.
Of course, even the most perfect ceremony can’t solve all their problems. What does it take to build forever?
REVIEW:
Welcome to your happily ever after – well almost. It’s been four years since we left the guys in Life, Some Assembly Required. Ryan is off doing his residency two hundred miles away from John and his family – his heart and soul. Their time consists of stolen moments in hotels in the middle, lots of Skype sessions and phone calls and even more longing.
As mentioned, it’s been four years and the Supreme Court has finally made a ruling on same sex marriage. Which means it’s finally time for Ryan and John to tie the knot. Since Ryan is away it’s up to John and Torey to plan the small shindig.
Something that I love about this book, or series really, is that nothing goes according to plan or as expected – life always happens. Everything from accidents messing up schedules, late flights, cars that break down and a dog deathly afraid of thunderstorms. It’s Murphy’s law all around and I loved it.
In the end though the whole family are gathered to see them get married and celebrate their happiness. It’s the ending we’ve been waiting for, a snippet in time showing us that years down the line Ryan and John are still as much in love as they were in the beginning.
Gomez Pugh did a wonderful job narrating this book. He drew you into it from the very start. All the feelings of the characters shone through so clearly; the love, longing, frustration and everything else that they felt during these few hours. He brought them all to life in a very nice way.
Building Forever is an mix between “Where are they now” and an epilogue. We get to follow our guys in the weeks leading up to the wedding, but when it’s all good and done you don’t get that The End feeling. Don’t get me wrong, the series or their story is in no way incomplete or lacking, and I honestly believe that this should be the end of the series. That doesn’t mean that Ryan and John’s lives are ending – they are just off to live life. And that’s where we leave them – living life, figuring out where to go next.
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