Ever After Always (Bergman Brothers #3) by Chloe Liese
Pages: 359
Publish date: January 12th 2021
Publisher: –
ISBN: 9798575450733
Purchase: Book Depository – Amazon UK – Amazon US – Amazon AU
Aiden
I’ve spent twelve years loving Freya Bergman and twelve lifetimes won’t be enough to give her everything she deserves. She’s my passionate, tender-hearted wife, my best friend, and all I want is to make her happy. But the one thing that will make her happiest is the one thing I’m not sure I can give her: a baby.
With the pressure of providing and planning for a family, my anxiety’s at an all-time high, and I find myself pulling away, terrified to tell my wife how I’m struggling. But when Freya kicks me out, I realize that pulling back has turned into pushing too far. Now it’s the fight of a lifetime to save our marriage.
Freya
I love my cautious, hard-working husband. He’s my partner and best friend, the person I know I can count on most. Until one day I realize the man I married is nowhere to be found. Now Aiden is quiet and withdrawn, and as the months wear on, the pain of our growing distance becomes too much.
As if weathering marriage counselling wasn’t enough, we’re thrown together for an island getaway to celebrate my parents’ many years of perfect marriage while ours is on the brink of collapse. Despite my meddling siblings and a week in each other’s constant company, this trip somehow gets us working through the trouble in paradise. I just can’t help worrying, when we leave paradise and return to the real world, will trouble find us again?
Ever After Always:
I received an earc of Ever After Always by Chloe Liese via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book.
Last year I read the first two books in this series and absolutely adored them, so when I read the synopsis and heard who this one was about, I was super excited. I don’t read many books about married couples, so this was a new experience for me and I loved it.
Ever After Always follows Aiden and Freya, who have loved each other for over 10 years, but now their marriage is in crisis. And now they both have to overcome fears, dream and the thought of failure. As Freya parents marriage anniversary is coming up, they have to put aside their differences and difficulties and put on a brave face. And it’s hard for both of them, but as they start to be together more, they start to understand each other again.
I adored both Freya and Aiden. I loved that we got to see a Bergman sister, it was a different vibe than the previous books, but it worked so well. While the reader sees them both go through some hard times, they also get to see them fall in love once again and that was beautiful.
One of my favourite things about this series is the way that it explores disability and illness. Each book has explored something extremely well. It has not only been presented in such a fantastic way, but it also isn’t riddled down to stereotypes. Ever After Always explored anxiety, the pressure of having children and more. I loved how Chloe Liese explored Aiden’s anxiety and how it affected multiple parts of his life. I love how it wasn’t fixed right away, how being with Freya wasn’t the cure. But how they both could work together, as well as Aiden helping himself, to overcome and prevail.
Overall, I adored this book and this series. If you haven’t picked it up, please do. You may cry and want to hold onto something right, but they are all unique and just fantastic reads. I can’t wait to read more books in the series.
Thunder (Hell’s Handlers MC #10) by Lilly Atlas
Pages: 353
Publish date: November 3rd 2020
Publisher: –
ASIN: B08LQMD4HB
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Makenna has a past she’d rather bury deep in her mind. Unfortunately, as the sole guardian for her five siblings, forgetting where they came from isn’t possible. All she can hope for is to provide her loved ones the kind of untroubled childhood she’d always dreamed of and keep them far away from where she grew up. Friendships and relationships, especially the romantic variety, don’t rank on her priority list. That is until she’s introduced to a hot biker whose playful personality and mesmerizing smile would make any woman perk up and take notice, even one with more responsibilities than sense.
Thunder has seen it all, done it all, and has no interest in the high maintenance, in-your-face, party girls. Give him a no-frills woman, like the diner’s adorable new waitress, who doesn’t play games rather than a scantily clad bimbo who manipulates men for sport. Makenna is precisely the kind of fun he needs to celebrate patching with the Hell’s Handlers MC. Only he quickly discovers Makenna is a package deal with more baggage than a carefree guy like him can handle.
With each passing day, Thunder finds himself increasingly drawn to Makenna despite her mountain of responsibilities and his distrust of relationships. Even crazier is how some of her siblings are working their way under his skin and into his heart, as is Makenna.
Just as Thunder starts thinking about dates and promises, the CDMC roars back into his life. They’re responsible for his beloved club brother’s death, and he wants nothing more than to make them suffer.
When the threats start coming, and Makenna finds herself caught in the crossfire, Thunder will discover exactly the kind of man he is, and how far he’s willing to go to keep Makenna and her siblings in his life.
Thunder:
This is another series that I started last year and when I heard that the last book in the series was going to be about Thunder, I was super excited. From the start when he is introduced, he just stood out and I enjoyed reading his story.
Thunder takes a very different turn from other books in the series and I wasn’t expecting that. I didn’t hate it, but it wasn’t what I was expecting at all. It much darkens than the other books in the series, which is hard for an MC series. But it deals with things that aren’t always easy to write and read. This book always deals with some of the events following one of the Hell Handlers death. That was such a hard part to read. Everyone was grieving and it played on all members.
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The romance was really interesting. I didn’t click with it at first, but as the novel went on and both Makenna and Thunder, both started to let their guards down it worked for me. I did want to see them together with a little more though. I’m not sure why but I felt like the reader doesn’t get to see them both feel, it’s like one minute they aren’t together and then they are. I did feel like something was missing.
One of my favourite things about this one was that we got to see all the different sides of the family. From blood family to found family. And how they can all come together. It’s one of my favourite things to see in novels, and this one really shined through. I loved Makenna and her siblings. While they did have their ups and downs the reader is able to see how much they love each other
Overall, this was a great way to finish the series. I loved getting to see everyone again and hearing how they are going. While also see some new and fresh faces. If you are looking for a complete MC series that has all types of characters – then pick this series up.
Have you read any of these books? What did you think of them? Are you planning on reading them? What is something that you have read recently read and loved?
