REVIEWED by Anna Lynn
TITLE: Love Always
AUTHOR: Riley Hart
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 218 pages
RELEASE DATE: September 5, 2019
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Nathaniel Montgomery can’t escape the pressure to be perfect, to be smart, to be successful. To live the life chosen for him–one that doesn’t include being gay.
Wren Cunningham lives on the streets and does what it takes to survive. No one has ever given a damn about him, so he works with the cards he’s been dealt and pushes his dreams aside.
Fate steps in when Nate and Wren meet at eighteen years old. They have one week to live how they want, to pretend everything they hope for is within reach. What they don’t expect is to find exactly what they need in each other…or to fall in love.
But sometimes love isn’t enough, and goodbyes are inevitable.
No matter how much time passes, Nate and Wren never forget. They always find their way back to each other, and that helps them make it through. It’s never been a question of if they want each other. Their love is constant and never fades. Love Always.
They’ve spent their whole lives dreaming about their future together. To have a fighting chance, they’ll need to find a different kind of strength–learning to love themselves first.
If not, their next goodbye will be their last.
REVIEW:
Nathaniel and Wren
A chance meeting or maybe it was fate!
A perfect boy who is smart, rich, and good-looking, Nathaniel cannot be “gay.” He has no choice but to fulfill what is expected of him, being who he is. But he did something that will allow him to be who he wants to be, for a week.
A boy who nobody sees, whose life started out bad, and only gets worse as he gets older, Wren, living on the streets, is doing what he has to in order to survive each day. Nobody gives a damn (excuse me!) about him. But deep down he has his own dreams, which might not happen at the rate he’s going, but he will try.
How can these two different young men be so different yet the same? They have a week to be who they really want to be, to be their real selves. When they laugh, I laughed with them and they are glorious. And I cried for all the sadness in their young lives. Their feelings were so raw and honest and somehow so them.
What these two main characters went through breaks my heart, I know it has happened to a lot of people but it still so disheartening reading their pain and how that pain resulted. I had to take short breaks to pull myself together. Life is so unpredictable, it throws you curved balls all the time. They have to fight through it. They have to do whatever it takes to reach that dream they had for them, no matter the heartbreak and how long it will take.
Sometimes we have to love and accept ourselves first before we can truly accept and love others for who they truly are.
This tale broke me, in a lot of ways, and in good ways. I understand what they went through. When something is worth your life, you will fight whatever is in the way. It does not matter what you have to go through, it will all be worth it in the end. This love story does that for you. When two people are lucky enough to find the one they were meant to be with, then you just have to hang on and fight for it with all you’ve got!
Ms. Riley Hart is one of the most passionate writers I have ever read, and she proved it again with Nate and Wren!
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