Suddenly, its August, and I have so many currently-borrowed-ARCs due. Here's to me speed-reading (which, frankly, I'm great at). "Forgotten Romance" by Saxon James. Its the sixth (and final, boo) book in her Divorced Men's Club series.
["Davey
In a list of what’s most important to me, three things are right up there at the top. My kids, my husband Mack, and my career I’ve spent my life building. Unfortunately that career has me away from home more than I'd like, and when I refuse to walk away from it, my husband walks away from me instead.
Living together post-divorce makes sense for us, but it blurs the lines between what we were and what we have. Now that I’ve scored a big promotion and negotiated twelve long weeks at home, memories of our life together haunt me. They make me long for what we had. And now that Mack is moving on with someone else, I’m being faced with the cold truth. I should never have let Mack go, and now it might be too late to get him back.
Mack
Twelve weeks. It’s the longest Davey has been home since we had the kids, and all it does is remind me of everything I wish I still had. So I decide this is it. I have twelve weeks to remind Davey of everything he lost and hope like hell when I give him the choice between work and me again, that this time he chooses me.
None of my friends are on board with my plan, and the new guy in town is trying his hardest to win me over. But I can ignore cute notes slipped into my favorite books if it means getting back the man I’ll love forever.
All I need to do is remind him our life together was perfect.
Now if only our kids, our friends, and his work would get the memo …"]
These two!!! D: I cried sooooo much in this book (and I can't blame ALL of it on my PMS). They were sooooo freaking in love and soooooooo heartbroken at the same time. It was beautiful and horrible. My god, there was so much angst and tension. Some of it was nice; some of it make my chest physically ache (yay).
I really do like how, after you look into it more and more and these two examine more than just that one conversation about a divorce (aka the prologue), the destruction of their marriage (that's dramatic...the gay-disaster-pause) was a mutual thing. And they both took that realization and took a moment to grow individually so they could grow together, better this time around.
I'm not sure WHY exactly I was so obsessed with this move in high school, but that moment when you ask someone why they love their partner? When they can't give a single reason, but a whole ass list (said list being cheesy as hell?)? Yeah, that happened here (Davey to Mack): "'One of those things without the rest isn't you. It's the way these fingers grip the books you read. And how you hold our babies in these arms. The way you go so red, right here, when you get embarrassed about the most ridiculous things. It's your eyes saying what your mouth can't, and it's the truly filthy things you sometimes let slip past your lips...'" I have to go ugly cry again, brb.
God, was this series good. I might have cried a bit in the epilogue (add that to Art's total) because this was the end. I know that means KM has other things brewing for us, but aren't ends hard either way?
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