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simply_shannon's review
4.0
Imagine you run out on your husband after only a week of being married, and never telling him why.
10 years later, you are in the same city and your ex-husband shows up at your place of work, still angry as all hell.
You can understand his anger until he drops a bomb on you that you least expect…
“I never filed the annulment papers, we are STILL married”
Adam and Evie had an epic romance for the ages when they were younger. They knew it was real and only saw each other in their futures, so they decided to get married. Evie was 18, Adam was 19 but they were determined to be endgame. Then a week later, Evie ups and leave with no warning. Annulment papers and rings left behind. Adam looked for years and found nothing.
Ten years later, they are face-to-face. Adam wanting answers that Evie can’t give him. Neither one of them truly moved on, at least in their hearts they haven’t. Even though I understood and sympathized with her reasoning to leave, I wish she found the strength to tell Adam sooner rather than later.
I am a big fan of Samantha Towle’s and this book ranks up as a favorite for sure.
10 years later, you are in the same city and your ex-husband shows up at your place of work, still angry as all hell.
You can understand his anger until he drops a bomb on you that you least expect…
“I never filed the annulment papers, we are STILL married”
Adam and Evie had an epic romance for the ages when they were younger. They knew it was real and only saw each other in their futures, so they decided to get married. Evie was 18, Adam was 19 but they were determined to be endgame. Then a week later, Evie ups and leave with no warning. Annulment papers and rings left behind. Adam looked for years and found nothing.
Ten years later, they are face-to-face. Adam wanting answers that Evie can’t give him. Neither one of them truly moved on, at least in their hearts they haven’t. Even though I understood and sympathized with her reasoning to leave, I wish she found the strength to tell Adam sooner rather than later.
I am a big fan of Samantha Towle’s and this book ranks up as a favorite for sure.
jen286's review
2.0
This review was originally posted to Jen in Bookland
I had high hopes for When I Was Yours as I read another book by this author and really enjoyed it. Unfortunately this one didn't work for me. It was predictable right from the beginning, I didn't understand the characters or why they did/didn't do things, and it just wasn't very good.
Evie and Adam were in love at a young age. Adam didn't have a very good home life, his parents were a nightmare, not really caring about him at all. They wanted him to take over the movie business from his dad, but he doesn't want that. When he meets and falls for Evie he finally has something in his life worth sticking up for. Worth angering his parents and going off and doing his own thing. And Evie? Well her sister is really sick and dying when she meets Adam, her life is a bit complicated working to try and make money to take care of her sister and father. She doesn't have a lot of time, but when she meets Adam there is just something there between them. They fall in love quickly and when they graduate high school Adam asks her to marry him, so they do. It is wonderful until Evie leaves him without a word as to why just a few days later. He is crushed, he tried to find her and her family for years, but was never able to.
The book opens when Adam is indeed running the family business, he still has a horrible relationship with is mother, and he is not very happy. He used to sleep with any girl who looked like Evie and pretend it was her, but he has been trying to stop. Until he sees the real deal again. Until he sees Evie.
Now Evie hasn't had it easy these past years either. She never got over Adam and hasn't really been living since she left him. Now the story is told in current time with some flashbacks to what happened, and so this meeting comes pretty early on in the story. This is also where the story started to fall apart for me as I simply didn't understand Evie. She won't tell Adam what happened, why she left, and I didn't understand why. You have to wait until the very end before you get to know that what you probably guessed right away was actually what happened. And then I really didn't understand why Evie never came back to Adam, never told him what happened. It is not like she would be ruining something for him or breaking someones trust that she cares about or something. She had some super lame reason that I obviously thought was not good enough. Not good.
Besides the story being predictable and not so good the writing was also not as good as I had expected. It was too descriptive and the beginnings of chapters read like an outline. It was very unexpected since I really enjoy the other story I read by this author. So yeah. Not the book for me. It could have been okay had Evie told Adam right away why she left and then they tried to work things out. Then seeing Adam work through everything and try to trust her again and all that would have worked. Instead the end was way too easy, Adam is upset then suddenly not and everything is fine and dandy. No. Just no.
I had high hopes for When I Was Yours as I read another book by this author and really enjoyed it. Unfortunately this one didn't work for me. It was predictable right from the beginning, I didn't understand the characters or why they did/didn't do things, and it just wasn't very good.
Evie and Adam were in love at a young age. Adam didn't have a very good home life, his parents were a nightmare, not really caring about him at all. They wanted him to take over the movie business from his dad, but he doesn't want that. When he meets and falls for Evie he finally has something in his life worth sticking up for. Worth angering his parents and going off and doing his own thing. And Evie? Well her sister is really sick and dying when she meets Adam, her life is a bit complicated working to try and make money to take care of her sister and father. She doesn't have a lot of time, but when she meets Adam there is just something there between them. They fall in love quickly and when they graduate high school Adam asks her to marry him, so they do. It is wonderful until Evie leaves him without a word as to why just a few days later. He is crushed, he tried to find her and her family for years, but was never able to.
The book opens when Adam is indeed running the family business, he still has a horrible relationship with is mother, and he is not very happy. He used to sleep with any girl who looked like Evie and pretend it was her, but he has been trying to stop. Until he sees the real deal again. Until he sees Evie.
Now Evie hasn't had it easy these past years either. She never got over Adam and hasn't really been living since she left him. Now the story is told in current time with some flashbacks to what happened, and so this meeting comes pretty early on in the story. This is also where the story started to fall apart for me as I simply didn't understand Evie. She won't tell Adam what happened, why she left, and I didn't understand why. You have to wait until the very end before you get to know that what you probably guessed right away was actually what happened. And then I really didn't understand why Evie never came back to Adam, never told him what happened. It is not like she would be ruining something for him or breaking someones trust that she cares about or something. She had some super lame reason that I obviously thought was not good enough. Not good.
Besides the story being predictable and not so good the writing was also not as good as I had expected. It was too descriptive and the beginnings of chapters read like an outline. It was very unexpected since I really enjoy the other story I read by this author. So yeah. Not the book for me. It could have been okay had Evie told Adam right away why she left and then they tried to work things out. Then seeing Adam work through everything and try to trust her again and all that would have worked. Instead the end was way too easy, Adam is upset then suddenly not and everything is fine and dandy. No. Just no.
jlafaro's review against another edition
3.0
Ugh I’m so torn on this one. I really liked it for the most part but the “big reveal” we waited until 85% to find out was pretty disappointing and really ruined it for me. It was like the obvious thing that you say “well that’s too obvious it can’t be THAT” the entire time and yet, it was. Maybe if they hadn’t built it up so much it would have been better.
I did like that the cause of the breakup was the FMC. Most of the time in a second chance romance it’s the guy who messed up in some way to cause the breakup but in this one it was the FMC who 100% caused the breakup. It was different and interesting even though the aforementioned “reason” ended up bugging me a lot. Yet he was still the one who did the groveling lol - it would have been nice to see her grovel a little to get him back. It was good though, not great.
3.5
I did like that the cause of the breakup was the FMC. Most of the time in a second chance romance it’s the guy who messed up in some way to cause the breakup but in this one it was the FMC who 100% caused the breakup. It was different and interesting even though the aforementioned “reason” ended up bugging me a lot. Yet he was still the one who did the groveling lol - it would have been nice to see her grovel a little to get him back. It was good though, not great.
3.5
1_romance_reader's review against another edition
4.0
It was so good
I love second chance romance novels. I'm so glad I came across this. It was definitely worth the read. The ending was perfect Loved it
I love second chance romance novels. I'm so glad I came across this. It was definitely worth the read. The ending was perfect Loved it
lisamh68's review
4.0
Good story but I wanted to know why she left much earlier than the end of the book ...
lani38's review against another edition
3.0
I really liked the story and their relationship and the overcoming the past. I was just really missing some character development and them knowing what is going on in their personal life. The book just focused a lot on their relationship.
3,5
3,5
beccallynn's review against another edition
3.0
I would say it was pretty predictable. I also think Adam got away with some mean ass things and didn’t grovel nearly enough. Yeah yeah, we can paint Evie as the villain making it so she would need to do all the apologizing, but that’s just a crock of shit tbh
emma_plz's review
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5