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At First Hate
by K.A. Linde
Imagine my surprise when I realize that this book is an offshoot of Hold the Forevers! The heroine in this story is Marley, Lila’s best friend, and here she has her own story of heartbreaks and second chances. KA Linde really killed it with this book! There are also mentions or cameos of loved characters from other books, so it felt like a class reunion of sorts, so lovely!
This story was a beautiful saga that comprised fifteen years of Marley and Derek loving each other but having bad luck staying together. It all started when they met, as high school students, Derek from an elite boys’ private school and Marley public school in Savannah. Derek was cocky and Markey snarky, so the playboy got bitten and rejected. The attraction was strong but something always happened. It felt so easy between them, they fit together so seamlessly, but most of the time Derek said something douchey and Marley took exception to what happened, or they hooked up and Derek didn’t want to get attached because he had goals and was leaving. I never saw a male character apologize so much!
The action took us all over, from Savannah, to North Carolina, to Boston, New York and back to Savannah. It felt like they would meet by serendipity, feel the attraction, have such a strong desire to be together, then wham! Something happened to separate them again. Eventually they get their HEA but not without a lot of frustration from the reader and a lot of yummy scenes from the characters. I could feel the love and the desire to be together but also felt that their time had not arrived yet.
Marley has a twin brother and together they inherited their Gram’s house; and they are being sued by their deadbeat mother who abandoned them as babies. Now she wants to steal their legacy and they are embroiled in a legal battle where Derek is also involved. There’s hate and there’s love between them, but for me, the hate was just frustration because they couldn’t be together.
It was such a wonderful angsty love story, and I loved that it revisited characters from other books. Once I started the book I couldn’t but it down, it was just so enthralling!
This story was a beautiful saga that comprised fifteen years of Marley and Derek loving each other but having bad luck staying together. It all started when they met, as high school students, Derek from an elite boys’ private school and Marley public school in Savannah. Derek was cocky and Markey snarky, so the playboy got bitten and rejected. The attraction was strong but something always happened. It felt so easy between them, they fit together so seamlessly, but most of the time Derek said something douchey and Marley took exception to what happened, or they hooked up and Derek didn’t want to get attached because he had goals and was leaving. I never saw a male character apologize so much!
The action took us all over, from Savannah, to North Carolina, to Boston, New York and back to Savannah. It felt like they would meet by serendipity, feel the attraction, have such a strong desire to be together, then wham! Something happened to separate them again. Eventually they get their HEA but not without a lot of frustration from the reader and a lot of yummy scenes from the characters. I could feel the love and the desire to be together but also felt that their time had not arrived yet.
Marley has a twin brother and together they inherited their Gram’s house; and they are being sued by their deadbeat mother who abandoned them as babies. Now she wants to steal their legacy and they are embroiled in a legal battle where Derek is also involved. There’s hate and there’s love between them, but for me, the hate was just frustration because they couldn’t be together.
It was such a wonderful angsty love story, and I loved that it revisited characters from other books. Once I started the book I couldn’t but it down, it was just so enthralling!