From that moment I couldn't care less about the couple, I just kept reading because I hate giving up the book (I learned my mistake). It’s never okay for a man to talk about a woman like that, let alone when she’s standing right there. Phew Micalea Smeltzer truly put me in the ringer, and had me gasping and I was in pure shock of it all. A lot of people seemed disappointed about when and how the book started, I for one felt it was the best way of writing this book.

I didn’t need a full chapter of her going to the Toyota dealership to get a new car, and various other random life things. that man made her, her own personal gym in his basement and fired someone for talking disrespectful to her. Salem has also matured a lot from book 1, there were some choices she made that I struggled with at first, but by the end it was all worth it.

never going to stop thinking about thayersalem i’m sick and need the next book bc what the fuck was that ending?

I know the mother in me wouldn’t be thrilled with this, and although Salem’s mother never “officially” finds out. She started a relationship with Caleb and eventually married him, although she knew deep down that she could never love him the same way she loved Thayer. How could a guy be so okay and accept the fact that the heroine hide his kid from him for six years? During Salem and Thayer’s 5 year separation, they did not communicate or reach out to one another so Thayer has no idea about their daughter.

nothing happens and in book 2 we know that he just did it to push her away forever and never intended to be with the OW). As we walked, I repeated them over and over so I wouldn't forget them, storing them away like precious gems to admire again later, in private. It broke my heart when her mother died, I also felt like it was unfair for her to have died and never getting to fall in love and understand that her husband’s actions were not all that she deserved in this life, but she had the love of her daughters and granddaughter to keep her going. And I know, without a doubt, that whatever this is, whatever we become, if we grow and flourish like the wildflowers behind our houses, or crash and burn, it won’t matter because when I’m old and gray, lying in bed thinking about my life, he’ll be the best part. This was a slow burn addictive story that showed you all of the sides to loving and being in love with someone that you didn't see coming.