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3.88 AVERAGE
Initial Thoughts:
Once I started this book, it was physically painful to put it down. It was all-consuming. And then it broke my heart.
I hope the third will put it back together.
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Full Review:
If you haven’t already read Remember When, you might want to back slowly away from this review. There will be spoilerish things that might ruin your enjoyment of the first book.
Consider yourself warned.
“It was excruciating at first, getting over Trip. Not that I ever really did, mind you. But during those first years, I had no other choice but to go on with my life. Because do you ever really get over your first love? Even during your twenties, when you experience that initial taste of being a grown-up… that teenager still lives inside you. That person you were before the world started telling you how to be, what to say, who you should be with. Before you lost yourself in expectations and plans, and could just be a work-in-progress with only the vaguest results in mind.”
Once I started reading this book, I couldn’t walk away. Trip and Layla’s story, and this author’s writing, is all-consuming. I simultaneously want it all right now and never want it to end. It’s that good amazing. This book made me feel all the feelings. I laughed, I cried. I remembered what it felt like to see the guy I thought was “the one” years later. It all broke my heart, but in the best way possible.
While Remember When was lighter and fluffier, Remember When 2 is decidedly more mature. It’s so much deeper than the first. Layla and Trip have both moved on and become the people they think they want to be. Began living the lives they want to live. But there’s one problem – neither of them has ever fully given up the other. Regardless of the circumstances or where they are, they’re just not finished with each other.
“When do you quit wishing for things to be different? Months? Years? Decades? You think that if a sufficient amount of time goes by, it should be enough to help you stop caring anymore. But it doesn’t. Ever.”
Trip is a total heartthrob Hollywood star. He’s dating a model. He’s untouchable… or is he? Layla is a more mature version of the girl I loved in the first book. She knows what she wants, at least with regards to her career, and she’s not afraid to go for it. She’s stronger, but more conflicted, than she was in the first book. She’s also engaged to another man. Shortly after the book opens (with a HUGE tease!!!! UGH!!!), Layla schemes a way to meet trip during a press tour he’s doing for an upcoming movie. The chemistry between them is still there. It’s stronger than ever. The writing was so real, so honest, the dialogue so perfect, you could feel what they were feeling. You could feel the insecurity, the vulnerability, the yearning, the heat that still exists after all these years, though they’re in very different places.
“When you want something you can’t have, it can get… frustrating.”
Trip and Layla are both such insecure and vulnerable characters. Both with good reason, though their reasons are very different. Trip wants someone to want him for HIM, not the movie star he’s become. Layla is concerned that Trip is acting. That he just wants a fling. That the feelings aren’t real. Of course, they could communicate with each other and move past these issues, but where would the fun be in that… So much of this novel is about timing. Very, very poor timing. At times (see what I did there?), I wanted to scream at both of them. I was so frustrated that, even though they’re both with other people, they won’t take that jump. They won’t admit their feelings when they’re both so pure and strong. So right.
Trip’s “grand gesture” near the end… huge swoony sigh. I melted… and maybe shed a couple tears. I adore Trip.
The only problem I have with this book is that I have a total love/hate relationship with cliffhangers and OMG. Talk about a cliffhanger. It leaves you wanting more. The third book can’t get here soon enough! Speaking of the third book, make sure to take a few minutes to read the prologue that was posted on TotallyBookedBlog back in July, if you haven’t already. (Major spoilers, of course.) It wrecked me in the best possible way.
Layla and Trip are on a beautiful journey and I am so, so grateful to T. Torrest that she’s taking us along for the ride with them.
See this review and more on my blog.
Once I started this book, it was physically painful to put it down. It was all-consuming. And then it broke my heart.
I hope the third will put it back together.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Full Review:
If you haven’t already read Remember When, you might want to back slowly away from this review. There will be spoilerish things that might ruin your enjoyment of the first book.
Consider yourself warned.
“It was excruciating at first, getting over Trip. Not that I ever really did, mind you. But during those first years, I had no other choice but to go on with my life. Because do you ever really get over your first love? Even during your twenties, when you experience that initial taste of being a grown-up… that teenager still lives inside you. That person you were before the world started telling you how to be, what to say, who you should be with. Before you lost yourself in expectations and plans, and could just be a work-in-progress with only the vaguest results in mind.”
Once I started reading this book, I couldn’t walk away. Trip and Layla’s story, and this author’s writing, is all-consuming. I simultaneously want it all right now and never want it to end. It’s that good amazing. This book made me feel all the feelings. I laughed, I cried. I remembered what it felt like to see the guy I thought was “the one” years later. It all broke my heart, but in the best way possible.
While Remember When was lighter and fluffier, Remember When 2 is decidedly more mature. It’s so much deeper than the first. Layla and Trip have both moved on and become the people they think they want to be. Began living the lives they want to live. But there’s one problem – neither of them has ever fully given up the other. Regardless of the circumstances or where they are, they’re just not finished with each other.
“When do you quit wishing for things to be different? Months? Years? Decades? You think that if a sufficient amount of time goes by, it should be enough to help you stop caring anymore. But it doesn’t. Ever.”
Trip is a total heartthrob Hollywood star. He’s dating a model. He’s untouchable… or is he? Layla is a more mature version of the girl I loved in the first book. She knows what she wants, at least with regards to her career, and she’s not afraid to go for it. She’s stronger, but more conflicted, than she was in the first book. She’s also engaged to another man. Shortly after the book opens (with a HUGE tease!!!! UGH!!!), Layla schemes a way to meet trip during a press tour he’s doing for an upcoming movie. The chemistry between them is still there. It’s stronger than ever. The writing was so real, so honest, the dialogue so perfect, you could feel what they were feeling. You could feel the insecurity, the vulnerability, the yearning, the heat that still exists after all these years, though they’re in very different places.
“When you want something you can’t have, it can get… frustrating.”
Trip and Layla are both such insecure and vulnerable characters. Both with good reason, though their reasons are very different. Trip wants someone to want him for HIM, not the movie star he’s become. Layla is concerned that Trip is acting. That he just wants a fling. That the feelings aren’t real. Of course, they could communicate with each other and move past these issues, but where would the fun be in that… So much of this novel is about timing. Very, very poor timing. At times (see what I did there?), I wanted to scream at both of them. I was so frustrated that, even though they’re both with other people, they won’t take that jump. They won’t admit their feelings when they’re both so pure and strong. So right.
Trip’s “grand gesture” near the end… huge swoony sigh. I melted… and maybe shed a couple tears. I adore Trip.
The only problem I have with this book is that I have a total love/hate relationship with cliffhangers and OMG. Talk about a cliffhanger. It leaves you wanting more. The third book can’t get here soon enough! Speaking of the third book, make sure to take a few minutes to read the prologue that was posted on TotallyBookedBlog back in July, if you haven’t already. (Major spoilers, of course.) It wrecked me in the best possible way.
Layla and Trip are on a beautiful journey and I am so, so grateful to T. Torrest that she’s taking us along for the ride with them.
See this review and more on my blog.
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T. Torrest's Remember Trilogy is one of my all-time favorite series. Because of this, I decided it would be fun to reread them when they were available in audiobook format. I had the best intentions of doing this shortly after they were released last spring, but you know how those things go. Since reading Tina's latest, Down the Shore, I've been unable to get Trip and Layla out of my head, so I decided to start it as soon as I finished the audiobook I was reading. I did just that, on my road trip from PA to VA and I loved it just as much the second time around.
So, in all honesty, this book isn't my favorite in the Remember Trilogy, but it was necessary and still fantastic. As someone who was head over heels in love with Trip and Layla together, it was tough to read about them apart. They were both struggling in different ways and being reunited was definitely making things better... if more complicated. The connection they shared in high school was still there and blazing strong, but a lot had changed in their lives. As tough as this book was to read at times, I know there was no way Trip and Layla could've gotten where they had in the end had they tried to stay together out of high school. They both had big dreams and it wasn't realistic. They had to be apart to find themselves and their dreams and ... ultimately each other, again. But that doesn't mean my heart didn't get ripped out and stomped on a couple times while I was reading this.
I love a good reread, especially when it's a book I loved so very much. Even though I know what's coming and how this story ultimately winds up, I still felt every single emotion the same way I did the first time I read it. It was almost as though I was experiencing it all for the first time. I laughed at the banter and the 90s references, I swooned over the romantic parts and the reminiscing between Trip and Layla, and I absolutely cried sobbed when the book was coming to a close. So many feels.
The audiobook version of Remember When 2 was great. The narrator, who I admittedly felt lukewarm towards for part of the first book, really improved during this book. She might not sound exactly how I imagined Layla, but she's come into her own and I think she did a great job voicing her and the other characters. Her pacing is great and I enjoyed hearing her act out this story.
I've already started the third book in the series. My original intention was to hold off on reading it until I had read a couple other books, just to stretch out the series some, but after I was punched in the feels so hard with this book, I knew I couldn't wait. I needed the HEA. Desperately.
If you're a fan of new adult romance with as much humor as heart and second chance romance, you HAVE to give this series a try. I have no doubt you'll love Trip and Layla as much as I do. And the good news is the series is complete, so you won't have any wait at all between installments. Once you're wrapped up in their story, you will definitely want to binge on it... just like I am right now.
T. Torrest's Remember Trilogy is one of my all-time favorite series. Because of this, I decided it would be fun to reread them when they were available in audiobook format. I had the best intentions of doing this shortly after they were released last spring, but you know how those things go. Since reading Tina's latest, Down the Shore, I've been unable to get Trip and Layla out of my head, so I decided to start it as soon as I finished the audiobook I was reading. I did just that, on my road trip from PA to VA and I loved it just as much the second time around.
So, in all honesty, this book isn't my favorite in the Remember Trilogy, but it was necessary and still fantastic. As someone who was head over heels in love with Trip and Layla together, it was tough to read about them apart. They were both struggling in different ways and being reunited was definitely making things better... if more complicated. The connection they shared in high school was still there and blazing strong, but a lot had changed in their lives. As tough as this book was to read at times, I know there was no way Trip and Layla could've gotten where they had in the end had they tried to stay together out of high school. They both had big dreams and it wasn't realistic. They had to be apart to find themselves and their dreams and ... ultimately each other, again. But that doesn't mean my heart didn't get ripped out and stomped on a couple times while I was reading this.
I love a good reread, especially when it's a book I loved so very much. Even though I know what's coming and how this story ultimately winds up, I still felt every single emotion the same way I did the first time I read it. It was almost as though I was experiencing it all for the first time. I laughed at the banter and the 90s references, I swooned over the romantic parts and the reminiscing between Trip and Layla, and I absolutely cried sobbed when the book was coming to a close. So many feels.
The audiobook version of Remember When 2 was great. The narrator, who I admittedly felt lukewarm towards for part of the first book, really improved during this book. She might not sound exactly how I imagined Layla, but she's come into her own and I think she did a great job voicing her and the other characters. Her pacing is great and I enjoyed hearing her act out this story.
I've already started the third book in the series. My original intention was to hold off on reading it until I had read a couple other books, just to stretch out the series some, but after I was punched in the feels so hard with this book, I knew I couldn't wait. I needed the HEA. Desperately.
If you're a fan of new adult romance with as much humor as heart and second chance romance, you HAVE to give this series a try. I have no doubt you'll love Trip and Layla as much as I do. And the good news is the series is complete, so you won't have any wait at all between installments. Once you're wrapped up in their story, you will definitely want to binge on it... just like I am right now.
I actually quite enjoyed this sequel. People grow up, grow apart. But there are some people you always feel connected to. I truly believed in Layla and Trips connection. I know a lot of people didn't like the ending, probably because it wasn't HEA. But the realness of it was good for me. Things don't always end how we want them to, we don't always make the right decisions at the right time. Hearts break and that's life.
OK, fast forward 10 years, and we are in the year 2000. Trip has moved on, Layla has moved on, and they meet again. Sparks fly in the best way. But they are both taken. What to do? Honestly at this point, the book was really reminiscent of The Mighty Storm for me. Luckily it ended up going a slightly different direction, but I thought The Mighty Storm did it better and steamier. I still liked the story but it did lose my interest in some parts and I found myself skimming. Thelast third was fun and a surprising ending reeled me in enough to go ahead and buy the third and final installment.
This sequel picks up 10 years after the first books leaves off, so it's now the year 2000 which should feel a lot more current and yet, if you think about it, it's still 15 years ago! We were barely online back then! Layla has grown up a lot, but in my opinion she still has a lot of growing to do - she and Trip continue to make a lot of the same mistakes with each other and occasionally they were almost too frustrating, but I continue to root for them and you better believe I bought book three pretty much immediately after finishing this one.