A review by bringmybooks
Ever After Always by Chloe Liese

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Thank you to the author, Chloe Liese, for the opportunity to read and review this book before it's publication date! This in no way affected my review, opinions are my own.

Unsurprisingly, the third in Chloe's Bergman Brothers series (although this one is about one of the Bergman sisters, Freya) was an incredibly well written addition to the series. However, for me this one was a little bit harder to read - when Chloe aims to write a novel about a marriage in crisis, she does NOT go halfway. At times it was so heartbreaking to read about Freya and Aiden's journey; how much they still cared for one another and how hard they were finding it to show the other, how much they wanted to be on the same page but weren't even reading the same book.

I've talked to a number of people about this one and I think the thing that is so interesting is how we, as readers, connect to novels and characters. For me, this was probably my least favorite of the series - namely because I identified so much with Aiden and it was so hard to see him struggle. On the other hand, fellow readers have said this was their FAVORITE in the series, because of how much they identified with Freya.

(Huge caveat here though - just because it was my least favorite in a series of REALLY GOOD books doesn't mean that this one isn't totally worth the read!)

Overall I would definitely recommend this to others, if only to see a very realistic and heartbreaking/heartwarming look at not the beginning of a marriage, but the middle of one - the good, the bad, the ugly, and the wonderful. It also helps that the other characters in the series flesh out the plot and the world of the Bergmans so well! (ALSO WE GET ROONEY'S STORY NEXT!!)
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