"As the song played, I envisioned Terry and I dancing. I ccould still feel him in my arms. I could smell his scent."
There are books that, months later, you see mentioned and you remember the way they made you feel. Tristen Rowen gives us that experience with Love Never Forgets, a love story that spans decades and shows how resilient true love can be.
From the Blurb:
Finding love is hard, falling in love is easy, and forgetting the love of your life is unimaginable.
When Scott Prescott makes that midnight trip to Vermont in 1990, he gives up everything and has no regrets.
Ten
years earlier, Scott is nothing more than a spoiled brat. The last
thing he ever wants to do is spend the entire summer of his eighteenth
year in the boonies of Vermont, all because of some silly promise his
dad made to his best friend when they were kids.
Stuck out in a
country inn, missing his home in Boston, Scott is determined to be
miserable until he catches the eye of Terry Lachance, the inn owner's
twenty-year-old son. Outgoing, eternally optimistic and tenacious, Terry
is driven to break through Scott's walls, and he succeeds in only a
day.
Faced with personal and societal challenges of the time,
Terry is nevertheless convinced Scott will make the "right decision."
there is no telling if their love is strong enough to withstand it all.
Inspired
by Tristen Rowen’s personal experiences, Love Never Forgets is the
unforgettable love story between two men whose love spans an eternity.
Not only is it a love story between two men, it’s a testament to the
strength of family in a time of crisis.
Laora's Review:
This is a new to me author, but boy am I happy to discover Tristen. The story is well crafted and anout 2/3 we get skipps in time to accomodate the whole story. I loved how emotive and true this story was written. It is about first true love between Scott and Terry. Losing that love due to interfering family. Finding it again as adults, and later on with love for their children. And the last part: still loving eachother while Terry starts to realise he is losing himself to early onset Alzheimer's and how Scott and the childeren life with losing their so much loved partner and father - and when to let go. This book does not have a hea as such but I foubd Scott and Terry had that after finding their way back to eachother
Rating: 5 Stars
Sarah C's Review:
This book is more than a
romance novel. It spans forty years in this couple's life, starting with
how they first meet and fall in love and ending with the heartbreak and
devastation that illness can bring on a family. The book moved me. It
made me laugh and it made me want to cry.
This book centers
around Scott and Terry. We first meet them when Scott is 18 and Terry is
20, back in 1980. They fall in love over the summer only to be torn
apart in a way that offers the first devastation of the book. But of
course, that is only the beginning. From there, we jump ten years into
the future. We learn who those boys have become and we get to watch them
reconnect before jumping again into the future and seeing the way that
illness tears them apart.
I think what Tristen did best in this
story, besides showing us a believable couple that slip under one
another's skins and straight into their hearts, building the kind of
love that happens only once in a lifetime, was the portrayal of illness.
Not just on the person that is sick but on the family and the
caregivers. The entire back portion of the book, when Terry is getting
sicker and sicker, is a struggle to read because of how REAL the
emotions are.
And that struggle ultimately makes the book worth
it. It may be a heavy read, but its a beautiful one. Terry and Scott and
their love story will stay with me and I will be revisiting.
Rating: 5 Stars
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