Forever, Interrupted - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Written by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Read by Tara Sands
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Release date: August 18, 2015
Duration: 08:45:44

Elsie Porter is an average twenty something and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year’s Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one. She isn’t expecting to see anyone else in the shop, much less the adorable and charming Ben Ross. Their chemistry is instant and electric. Within weeks, the two are head over heels in love. By May, they’ve eloped. Only nine days later, Ben is out riding his bike when he is hit by a truck and killed on impact. At the hospital, she must face Susan, the mother-in-law she has never met—and who doesn’t even know Elsie exists.

As this review notes, this was the author’s first novel, I like to upload an author’s first novel. This one is a must read.

In her touching and powerful debut, Reid masterfully grabs hold of the heartstrings and doesn’t let go.…..Soon, Elsie is navigating the shoals of planning a funeral with Ben’s initially hostile mother, Susan, and learning how to live without her true love. The author beautifully weaves Ben and Elsie’s courtship throughout the narrative, showing the reader the deep love that has bloomed—and the utter capriciousness of the fate that has taken that away. As Elsie and Susan begin to heal, they offer each other strength borne of their shared experience—which helps each of them open doors, once again, to the possibility of love. A stunning first novel.

I like to chapter books but this book has none, it is done in seasons of the year. Some are a few minutes and others are over 30. I left it in the Overdrive parts.