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Only and Forever by Chloe Liese

3 reviews

sami_leigh's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5
🌶.5/5 

‘I’d already tried to make Tallulah Clarke smile, years ago. And I’d failed.’

“That’s how you know you really love something, Tallulahloo, when it feels worth the hassle, when even the hardest parts of it feel like a gift.”

‘I learned to stay quiet and bottle it up and not feel. Feelings made everything worse.’

‘How do I tell him no one’s ever done that for me? Offered to be the one who makes a safe space for me to fall apart?’

‘They like me for my helpfulness, until how I’m helpful bothers them, then they don’t. Then they’re done.’ 

📚 First person dual POV
📚 Last in the Bergman series 🥹
📚 College acquaintances 
📚 Thriller author / Romance reader 
📚 A deal to help eachother out
📚 Banter
📚 Forced proximity
📚 SLOW burn 🔥 
📚 Hoard of adopted pets 
📚 Meddling family 
📚 Plant dad 🪴
📚 Well established secondary characters from previous books 
📚 MC growth: COMMUNICATION 🙌🏻, feeling feelings, therapy 🙌🏻, risking a relationship, trust, people pleasing, expectations, overcoming past trauma & rigid ideologies
📚 Representation of familial trauma surrounding divorce
📚 Representation of chronic illness — Type 1 Diabetes 
📚 Neurodivergence representation — ADHD
📚 Epilogue 


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⚠️ Childhood trauma (divorce), drug abuse (secondary character), medical content (minor).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Drug abuse

sdupont's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Chloe Liese’s writing is so heartwarming; reading her books feels like being hugged while wrapped in a warm blanket by the fire. This final installment in the Bergman Brother’s series is no different. I loved seeing the evolution of Viggo and Tallulah (separately and together). They both offered up such beautiful displays of vulnerability while opening up to each other. They supported each other’s growth without making the other feel small or big lovable how they already were. Viggo and Talluluh were such sweet sensitive souls who were destined to love each other. Honorable mention to the big wonderful Bergman family and all their significant others. I just loved seeing all the couples back together again. I wish we had a few more scenes with the siblings. All good things must come to end and let me tell you this series is definitely a good thing. Everyone needs to pick up this series you will not regret it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness

Moderate: Medical content, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Drug abuse, Abandonment, Fatphobia, and Pregnancy

soulwinds's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Grief and Medical content

Minor: Abandonment, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Toxic relationship