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Keeping Her
by Cora Carmack
Actual rating: 4.5*'s.
This addition was a perfect rounding off of "Losing It". After finishing Losing It, I found myself desiring to find out what happened with the characters that I had fallen in love with; and I was delighted to find out that this was a thing. I downloaded it immediately and got to reading it and I absolutely loved it.
This novel is set after Losing It. The couple are heading towards London in order to meet Garrick's family and it's fair to say that it's playing on both of their minds. Will they be able to cope with the stress and tribulations of meeting such a difficult family or will their relationship be able to withstand it? The two head to London and immediately the drama sets off. Despite how this novella is one of the shortest that I've read; it truly is short and sweet and if it were to be any longer, I'd have possibly thought it unnecessary. I love how short Cora Carmack wrote this. So much happening in such a short space of time kept me on my toes, kept me interested and kept me truly invested in the story and I didn't for one moment skim the page whilst thinking "wow, I wish something would happen" so props to you, Cora!
There were a good number of twists and turns throughout the course of this to keep me fully entertained and interested and it added more depth to the relationship - we saw them go through traumatic and worrying times whilst watching them also go through the best time of their lives and it was extremely interesting to see how they managed all of these things and to watch how their relationship grew as a result of this. I loved learning more about the characters (especially Garrick) and I loved seeing relationships between Bliss and Garrick's family develop - it made the characters more interesting, more relatable and just well rounded. It was nice to see such a large amount actually dedicated to Garrick's family - I was expecting there to be minimal content including Bliss's growing relationship with his mother, for example, but I was blown away just how much Carmack developed the relationship there as well as developing Bliss's and Garrick's. Another point to you, Cora!
I loved how it was written and I particularly favoured seeing it in Garrick's point of view - it was nice to see it from his POV and helped me to connect with his character even more and I can officially say that Garrick is on my fictional boyfriends list! Yay! Reading his thoughts gave him depth for me and it was something that Losing It was lacking; I needed to see more from Garrick's point of view and it is done in such a clever and useful way that I couldn't actually find anything to pick at.
The only complaint is that I felt it was rounded off a little too quickly; things seemed to be resolved at a snap of their fingers, but I suppose that's part of the charm - hence why this only knocked .5* off of my overall rating.
If you have read losing it, I would recommend you pick this up even if you didn't particularly like losing it. It is well worth the read and it could well sway you into "shipping" the couple harder (it did that with me, that's for sure!)As a side note: I think I'm in love with Cora Carmack's writing; she's truly fabulous.
Definitely give it a try!
This addition was a perfect rounding off of "Losing It". After finishing Losing It, I found myself desiring to find out what happened with the characters that I had fallen in love with; and I was delighted to find out that this was a thing. I downloaded it immediately and got to reading it and I absolutely loved it.
This novel is set after Losing It. The couple are heading towards London in order to meet Garrick's family and it's fair to say that it's playing on both of their minds. Will they be able to cope with the stress and tribulations of meeting such a difficult family or will their relationship be able to withstand it? The two head to London and immediately the drama sets off. Despite how this novella is one of the shortest that I've read; it truly is short and sweet and if it were to be any longer, I'd have possibly thought it unnecessary. I love how short Cora Carmack wrote this. So much happening in such a short space of time kept me on my toes, kept me interested and kept me truly invested in the story and I didn't for one moment skim the page whilst thinking "wow, I wish something would happen" so props to you, Cora!
There were a good number of twists and turns throughout the course of this to keep me fully entertained and interested and it added more depth to the relationship - we saw them go through traumatic and worrying times whilst watching them also go through the best time of their lives and it was extremely interesting to see how they managed all of these things and to watch how their relationship grew as a result of this. I loved learning more about the characters (especially Garrick) and I loved seeing relationships between Bliss and Garrick's family develop - it made the characters more interesting, more relatable and just well rounded. It was nice to see such a large amount actually dedicated to Garrick's family - I was expecting there to be minimal content including Bliss's growing relationship with his mother, for example, but I was blown away just how much Carmack developed the relationship there as well as developing Bliss's and Garrick's. Another point to you, Cora!
I loved how it was written and I particularly favoured seeing it in Garrick's point of view - it was nice to see it from his POV and helped me to connect with his character even more and I can officially say that Garrick is on my fictional boyfriends list! Yay! Reading his thoughts gave him depth for me and it was something that Losing It was lacking; I needed to see more from Garrick's point of view and it is done in such a clever and useful way that I couldn't actually find anything to pick at.
The only complaint is that I felt it was rounded off a little too quickly; things seemed to be resolved at a snap of their fingers, but I suppose that's part of the charm - hence why this only knocked .5* off of my overall rating.
If you have read losing it, I would recommend you pick this up even if you didn't particularly like losing it. It is well worth the read and it could well sway you into "shipping" the couple harder (it did that with me, that's for sure!)As a side note: I think I'm in love with Cora Carmack's writing; she's truly fabulous.
Definitely give it a try!