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A review by rwbrock
Always Isn't Forever by J.C. Cervantes
3.0
3.5/5⭐️
This story centers around teenage love and how all-consuming and fraught it can be.
Ruby and Hart have known each other since early childhood and have become soulmates. Following a devastating turn of events Ruby loses Hart. But through an angel’s intervention, he returns in the body of their school’s troubled and arrogant bad-boy quarterback Jameson. Will Ruby realize what has happened before all of Hart’s memories are taken away? Can a powerful “always” kind of love really be a “forever” kind of love?
While this was fine and had its good moments and points (and kudos for keeping the relationship chaste), I didn’t really get all the feels of an emotionally compelling love story and loss that I was hoping for. I also felt like while the focus was on the couple’s relationship, I didn’t have enough background/insight into each protagonist, so I didn’t get a good sense of them as individuals. So unfortunately, I just didn’t feel that invested.
My thanks to NetGalley and Penguin/Razorbill for providing the free early arc of Always Isn’t Forever for review. The opinions are strictly my own.
This story centers around teenage love and how all-consuming and fraught it can be.
Ruby and Hart have known each other since early childhood and have become soulmates. Following a devastating turn of events Ruby loses Hart. But through an angel’s intervention, he returns in the body of their school’s troubled and arrogant bad-boy quarterback Jameson. Will Ruby realize what has happened before all of Hart’s memories are taken away? Can a powerful “always” kind of love really be a “forever” kind of love?
While this was fine and had its good moments and points (and kudos for keeping the relationship chaste), I didn’t really get all the feels of an emotionally compelling love story and loss that I was hoping for. I also felt like while the focus was on the couple’s relationship, I didn’t have enough background/insight into each protagonist, so I didn’t get a good sense of them as individuals. So unfortunately, I just didn’t feel that invested.
My thanks to NetGalley and Penguin/Razorbill for providing the free early arc of Always Isn’t Forever for review. The opinions are strictly my own.