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Exes with Benefits
by Nicole Williams
"You can't write a great love story without a tragedy to over come. Because that's when love's proved. Not when life's easy, but when it's so damn hard you can barely breathe."
I'm celebrating because it's been five days since I finished a book. That doesn't seem too long, but it's felt like weeks. I've been constantly picking up books and closing them because they haven't been good. Then I decide to read Exes with Benefits and my day has brightened.
This was a totally unexpected read. When you see the title and read the synopsis you can make assumptions. I thought this would be on the light hearted side with two exes being FWB while trying to figure out if they're meant to be. I was slightly shocked to see I was wrong and this was a story about two people who love one another, but lost their way.
I'm truly a sucker for two types of stories: childhood loves and second chance romances. This story had both. Maggie and Canaan have known each other since they were children. Throughout their lives they were friends, until they reached an age where that friendship turned into more. At eighteen they got married and were two young kids so blissfully in love. Life has a way of getting messy and causes Maggie to leave. Five years later and she's back in the very town she swore she'd never come back to.
"You fight for what's important. That's the way life is. And you are worth every fight I have in me."
The reason I love second chance romances is because of how different it is when you read about two characters who have a past. The story doesn't revolve around them getting to know each other like a regular romance. It's about relearning who they were when they were once together and who they are now.
This was a sweet romance and so deep. We learn about Maggie and Canaan's history and why they didn't work out in the first place. Their past is brought up and it makes Maggie's goal a mess and leaves her confused.
This was a shorter read, but it was written so well. In the chapters you feel the pull Maggie has toward Canaan. You also feel the hesitation she has about letting him back in. I loved this.
"Crazy, isn't it?"
"What?"
"How the hardest lessons we have to learn are the ones that wind up costing us the most?"
I'm celebrating because it's been five days since I finished a book. That doesn't seem too long, but it's felt like weeks. I've been constantly picking up books and closing them because they haven't been good. Then I decide to read Exes with Benefits and my day has brightened.
This was a totally unexpected read. When you see the title and read the synopsis you can make assumptions. I thought this would be on the light hearted side with two exes being FWB while trying to figure out if they're meant to be. I was slightly shocked to see I was wrong and this was a story about two people who love one another, but lost their way.
I'm truly a sucker for two types of stories: childhood loves and second chance romances. This story had both. Maggie and Canaan have known each other since they were children. Throughout their lives they were friends, until they reached an age where that friendship turned into more. At eighteen they got married and were two young kids so blissfully in love. Life has a way of getting messy and causes Maggie to leave. Five years later and she's back in the very town she swore she'd never come back to.
"You fight for what's important. That's the way life is. And you are worth every fight I have in me."
The reason I love second chance romances is because of how different it is when you read about two characters who have a past. The story doesn't revolve around them getting to know each other like a regular romance. It's about relearning who they were when they were once together and who they are now.
This was a sweet romance and so deep. We learn about Maggie and Canaan's history and why they didn't work out in the first place. Their past is brought up and it makes Maggie's goal a mess and leaves her confused.
This was a shorter read, but it was written so well. In the chapters you feel the pull Maggie has toward Canaan. You also feel the hesitation she has about letting him back in. I loved this.
"Crazy, isn't it?"
"What?"
"How the hardest lessons we have to learn are the ones that wind up costing us the most?"