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Review: Never Never by Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher

Author:  Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher

Book: Never Never

tl;dr recommendation: a paranormaly, romancey, YAish, mysterious ball of awesome.

Summary:

“How odd to be made of flesh, balanced on bone, and filled with a soul you’ve never met.”
   
Charlize Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk.  They’ve been in love since the age of fourteen.
But as of this morning…they are complete strangers.
Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love…every memory has vanished.
“I don’t care what our real first kiss was,” he says. “That’s the one I want to remember.” 
 
Charlize and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why.  But the more they learn about the couple they used to be…the more they question why they were ever together to begin with.
“I want to remember what it feels like to love someone like that. And not just anyone.  I want to know what it feels like to love Charlie.”

Longer Review:

NEVER NEVER is the book you’d get if you combined every single genre I’ve ever had an interest in. This Book Is Fantastic. Fair warning: this is a novella that contains a major cliffhanger. One that you will cling on to, re-read, and obsess about for a few days. Not that I’m speaking from experience or anything. So, if you hate cliffhangers, I’ll be the one to tell you that this cliffhanger will kill you. (too much? no. nope. no.)

Charlie and Silas have no idea what’s going on, and neither do you. We find them in fourth period when each of them has zero idea of anything personal about themselves: their names, brothers, sisters, friends, or each other. Yet, they are aware of other random things, like how to text, cook, drive, etc. They quickly figure out that they’ve been dating for four years but their relationship has been a bit rocky recently and then we follow them as they try to figure out everything about themselves, and most importantly – why they don’t know who they are.

The story is told through a dual POV, so you get to experience Charlie & Silas when both are clueless as hell as to what is going on. I was racing to put the pieces of the story together just like they do – and just when I thought that I knew what was going on, I was totally thrown. Ahhhhh!

Every page was like uncovering a new secret & a new pain. Will they get together and fall back in love (again)? Will their families get over the past?  WHY CAN’T THEY REMEMBER ANYTHING? You get none of the answers to these questions in this book, but trust me, you still want to read it.

Colleen & Tarryn do not disappoint – I am enthralled with the world they created!

List: The last 10

**********************UPDATE: ok internet. I lied. I missed four books. books that fit nicely between 3 and 4. They are….

The Fixed Trilogy – Laurelin Page

Hudson – Laurelin Page

How could I have forgotten FOUR BOOKS?! One answer is because I became so swept up in the perfectness of Gideon Cross nothing else mattered (that’s actually quite possible). However, that truth is also mixed in the fact that I was SO PISSED after reading these books that I needed to move on to something. anything. That doesn’t mean the books sucked – I was just utterly pissed off. Thank God that fourth book was written or else I would have seriously been in a mood (and I was). for days. until I found Gideon. on second thought, I should probably thank Laurelin for the great workouts these books fueled.
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so we get a feel for each other, let’s talk about the last ten books i’ve read (the most recent one being #1). I’ll be sure to give you my thoughts on them later-ish. but let’s get the awkward intro out of the way, shall we?

1.    Entwined With You – Sylvia Day

2.    Reflected In You – Sylvia Day

3.    Bared To You – Sylvia Day

is now a good time to ask when Captivated by You comes out, Sylvia? No? ok. I’ll leave that the the hundreds of people on twitter & facebook who ask everyday. don’t block me. i’m just worried – it’s the same feeling I get when I think about what would happen if i didn’t have life insurance on my husband and something should happen to him. i mean, what am i going to do?! it’s slightly irrational and everything, but really. you’re being safe, right? eat right. exercise. let’s get out books 4&5. ok thanks. I mean, it’s not like these are technically also 4-6 since I read them twice. in a row.

while I’ll go deeper into these later, let’s just say that if Eva cheats on Gideon with Brett in San Diego or wherever the hell she goes I will fucking hunt her down. Not that I’m invested or anything. Not at all. #Gideonisperfect

4.    Fifty Shades Freed – EL James

5.    Fifty Shades Darker – EL James

6.    Fifty Shades of Grey – EL James

Christian is wonderful, he is, but he’s no Gideon. More on this later. #stowyourtwitchypalm. and I may have read these three times. each. in a row. my husband is a lucky man.

7.    All seven Harry Potter books – JK Rowling

I cheated. I’m aware. but then I would have cut off my list in mid-series. that’s not right, is it? and i know I’m TEN YEARS LATE with like this entire list. Give me a break, I was in law school for part of that.

8.    Will Grayson, Will Grayson – John Green

9.    Paper Towns – John Green

10.  Looking for Alaska – John Green

bonus 11.  The Fault in Our Stars

ok, had to finish the grouping. Do you sense a theme here?

Generally, I pick an author and devour everything I can find. I know a book is good when my husband angrily stares at me and declares that I haven’t said more than fourteen words to him all day. SORRY I’M NOT SORRY. So, now you know me a little better. Let’s go out again, yes?