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Chasing Forever (The Forever Series, #1) (2014)

by Lisa Cardiff(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

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Romance

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Limitless Publishing, LLC

review 1: ** THIS BOOK WAS GIVEN TO ME BY THE PUBLISHER IN EXCHANGE FOR AN HONEST REVIEW **I really enjoyed this book, more than I thought I would. Mainly because, despite many sexy times, this book was about forgiveness. Forgiving someone that has wronged you in order to obtain the happiness you desire. I really appreciated Cardiff execution of the plot, for the most part.Chasing Forever follows Regan Pierce, a second year law student and her journey of reconstructing her life after a humiliating college experience. When she begins an internship at a law firm, she encounters the person who was the cause of her humiliation. He works at the firm. Worse, he is her mentor.Lucas Evanston, her mentor and ex-boyfriend, regrets what he did to Regan and wants to redeem himself and apologize... more to her because he never stopped caring about her. He's a cocky, overconfident, very attractive man; but he is also very likeable once you get past all of that. Cardiff develops the plot of the story and the characters at a pace that I felt was good, especially given the limited number of pages in the book. I didn't feel like anything was too rush or inauthentic. I believe Lucas and his regret; I believed Regan and her pain. I think, if anything, I empathize more with Regan because Lucas, unknowingly, hurt her more than he realized.Throughout the book, Regan and Lucas find a way to be more comfortable with each other, as they work together. Lucas played to Regan's weaknesses really well, forcing her to grow as a law student. Regan's strengths played well to Lucas' weaknesses, especially when it came to showing him that the past does matter. Regardless of whether he meant to hurt her or not.My favorite character in this book is probably Lucas' best friend, Drew. Men like Lucas - strong-willed, stubborn, in powerful positions - need friends like Drew. To cut the bullshit before it begins. And I really enjoyed Drew when he would help Lucas process through his feelings.The relationship development between Lucas and Regan was decent. At time, it did seem a bit too fast. But the length of the book made up for that, because it was so short.As characters, I feel like both parties developed to an okay level. There were moments where it teetered on the unrealistic side. There were moments when I got so unbelievably frustrated that I wanted to not care about the outcome for either of them. But ultimately, I enjoyed the book. The ending wrapped everything in a nice shiny bow. There was closure.Books like these are very good a showing the power of forgiveness. The limitations you place upon yourself until you extend your hand in forgiveness. Personally, I think Regan was a fantastic character in that regard. He decision-making may have been lacking, but her heart and her strength of forgiveness was awesome to witness.Cardiff did a decent job with this book and it does make me want to read more of her stuff.
review 2: “Lucas Evanston was one mistake she would regret forever.”—Regan’s thoughtsWhat do you do when the man you’ve hated for the past 6 years—the same man who was responsible for breaking your heart in the most humiliating way possible—turns out to be your boss for the summer. Run away? Tempting. Quit? Also tempting. Act mature about it? Sadly, yes. Now, what do you do if that same man turns out to realize that his biggest mistake was to not fight for you? What do you do if he doesn’t want to let you—the love of his life—get away again? And crazier still: what if you don’t want to leave…“He’d been crazy about this woman from the minute he met her, and he wished he never let her walk out of his life six year ago. He wouldn’t make that mistake again.”—Lucas’s thoughtsYikes! Talk about an internship from Hell! Well kinda. When you’re boss is super hottie and charming Lucas Evanston, it’s hard to call it anything but heaven. Unless you’re Regan, of course, who got her heart broken ala Cruel Intentions style. I loved how we got to flash back for a few chapters to see how the two of them met and got involved. But this is after we know that they had a very bad falling out. We don’t get to know how they broke up until later on, and it really is such a shame that Lucas didn’t fight harder.Well, he’s certainly trying to make up for lost time now! While I loved how he kept pursuing her—even when he had competition and he knew that boss plus intern equals job-threatening office scandal—he had a lot to atone for! I wanted to smack him whenever he acted jealous and *especially* when he was like ‘eh, it’s in the past. Let’s move on.’ Sure, it’s easy to say that when you’re the one who was in the wrong!I liked how strong Regan is, felt bad for what Lucas put her through, and cheered for her throughout the book. I do feel like she let him off the hook easily many times, and some of those times where she got hurt could have easily been prevented if Lucas really thought things through. It was sad seeing how bitter and angry she was (although understandable given what she believes) thinking that Lucas didn’t care about her, while Lucas struggles with his feelings, because he does care. And unfortunately, he has no idea how to fix things.It’s an entertaining read, and I absolutely loved Regan! The heat is med-high with sexual tension between these two loves with some serious baggage coming between them—the same baggage badly packed by them. Plus, there’s the whole no fraternizing at work thing, which is a bit of a wrinkle when trying to reconcile. The story is standalone with no cliffhanger although I wish there was more in the epilogue! Overall, this is a 3.5 out of 5 for me!(Originally posted on my blog; I received a review copy in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.) less

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