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Always Something There To Remind Me (2011)

by Beth Harbison(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0312599102 (ISBN13: 9780312599102)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

St. Martin's Press

review 1: I was very excited to read Always Something There To Remind Me. I love these kinds of books because every woman can relate to the story line. Every woman has had a first love, whether it went well or not, and she always remembers him.It's the story about Erin and her high school sweetheart Nate. He was her first, and they were together for two years, but a misunderstanding, and her need for attention, and his quiet ways of attention and affection finally broke them up. They moved on.Now, twenty years later, Erin has a 15 year old from another relationship, which failed, and the father of the child has passed away, leaving her a single hard-working mother. She's never really gotten over Nate, but she's tried to quietly move on. She's been in a year long relationship with a ... moregreat guy -- everything on paper is perfect--he's hot, he's got a great job, and his daughter is even best friends with Erin's daughter. But Rick doesn't spark the love fireworks that Erin ever felt with Nate. No one has, and Erin fears that no one ever will.When Rick unexpectedly proposes to Erin, the first thing that comes to her mind isn't YES or NO. It's NATE. She realizes she needs to find NATE. That's all she can think of. She can't answer Rick because she has not gotten the closure she's needed in order to move on in the present. The past won't let her move on.Always Something There To Remind Me tells the story of Erin's and Nate's young first passionate love and then in alternating chapters shows the present time as well. Erin finds Nate, and discovers some shocking news of her own. Will it be too much for her to take, and make her realize that the break-up was exactly that - something that was meant to be long ago? Or is fate stepping in once again, and letting her know that the time is right for a do-over, and this is the second chance she'd always hoped for?A fast-paced, fun read about first love and the decisions that are sometimes made for us, and what it's like if there was a second chance, Always Something There To Remind Me is a book that all women will want to read. It'll bring you back to those hot steamy nights in the back of the car when you knew you were breaking your curfew, but you also knew you wanted to take it a bit further. And you also knew deep in your heart that if you left, you feared you might not ever breathe again!
review 2: I wasn't a huge fan of this book. Erin is obsessed over her high school boyfriend like a preteen and it just annoyed me. Don't get me wrong, I understand loving someone and missing them because of a break-up that you didn't expect. I just think that Erin was beyond obsessed and a bit neurotic. Her whole thought process was about him and only him. She was in her 30s but it almost seemed like she was still in high school. I don't think most people act like that when they get into their 30s. I thought the story was pretty repetitive also. It seemed like Erin repeated her same feelings over and over and over and over. I think one thing that really irked me was that Erin was in a serious relationship that was leading up to marriage. She was seriously spending a lot of time with this man, and yet she acted like she didn't even care about him a little bit.Overall, I wasn't a fan. I do look forward to reading more works from this author. I was told by several people she had better stories, I just picked the wrong one to start with. less

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