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A review by amyvl93
Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
I loved Evelyn Hugo, liked Daisy Jones and enjoyed Malibu Rising so was keen to go back to Jenkins Reid's backlist - starting with this, her debut novel.
Forever Interrupted is the story of Elsie who has a whirlwind romance with Ben with them meeting and marrying within six months. However, weeks after their wedding he is killed in a traffic accident throwing Elsie into grief and the path of her mother-in-law who doesn't even know she exists.
The opening pages of this a gut-wrenchingly painful, you can really feel Elsie and Susan's (Ben's mother) respective grief, and how that messy emotion drives some of their initial behaviour; which definitely isn't always likeable. However, I found a lot of the flashbacks to Elsie and Ben's relationship deeply cringey, with Ben just being plain annoying at times, rather than being sucked into their romance. Elsie also moves beyond grief-struck to just plain horrible to her one friend and others who care abut her as the book progresses, making her quite difficult to spend time with. There's also a heavy dose of 'not like the other girls' (e.g. her best friend who is HOT and ALL MEN WANT unlike her Elsie who is NOT SKINNY and INTO BOOKS [but not ones about vampires]) in here which is a little disappointing.
Maybe one to check out if you're a Jenkins Reid completist.
Forever Interrupted is the story of Elsie who has a whirlwind romance with Ben with them meeting and marrying within six months. However, weeks after their wedding he is killed in a traffic accident throwing Elsie into grief and the path of her mother-in-law who doesn't even know she exists.
The opening pages of this a gut-wrenchingly painful, you can really feel Elsie and Susan's (Ben's mother) respective grief, and how that messy emotion drives some of their initial behaviour; which definitely isn't always likeable. However, I found a lot of the flashbacks to Elsie and Ben's relationship deeply cringey, with Ben just being plain annoying at times, rather than being sucked into their romance. Elsie also moves beyond grief-struck to just plain horrible to her one friend and others who care abut her as the book progresses, making her quite difficult to spend time with. There's also a heavy dose of 'not like the other girls' (e.g. her best friend who is HOT and ALL MEN WANT unlike her Elsie who is NOT SKINNY and INTO BOOKS [but not ones about vampires]) in here which is a little disappointing.
Maybe one to check out if you're a Jenkins Reid completist.