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Caitlin: Forever Trilogy #2
Forever and Always
After her grandmother's death, Caitlin is forced to take over Ryan Mining, but her new position is jeopardized by vicious rumors spread by Collin Wollman
- GenresRomanceYoung Adult
203 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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Francine Pascal
1,140 books1,851 followersFrancine Paula Pascal was an American author best known for her Sweet Valley series of young adult novels. Sweet Valley High, the backbone of the collection, was made into a television series, which led to several spin-offs, including The Unicorn Club and Sweet Valley University. Although most of these books were published in the 1980s and 1990s, they remained so popular that several titles were re-released decades later.
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February 1, 2015
Oh, look, Caitlin's back. This time Caitlin has found herself torn between Virginia (Ryan Acres) and NYC where here career as a writer is finally taking off. Jed's proposed and the wedding date is set! So exciting, right? What could possibly go wrong?
Well, how about Caitlin's grandmother dying for starters.
Caitlin winds up back home, doing exactly what Grandmother Regina wanted (being head of Ryan Mining) while Jed moans and complains about Caitlin not just selling the company and heading back to NYC immediately. But things are going rather well with the company because Caitlin has a natural head for business. Or is capable of signing on the proper dotted line, who knows. There's much talk of redecorating her grandmother's office and the house in general, and wow, it must be nice to be so rich.
Throw in the return of Colin the horrible lawyer attempting to sabatoge Caitlin (and, I suppose, the company) and some lawyer/PI named Howard and you've got your story. Will Caitlin come out on top, will she break more hearts, will you wish these books came with sacks of money?
The thing that actually really bothered me about Forever and Always is the character assassination of Laurence Baxter. Remember him? In the Loving trilogy, he's the guy who finds out that Caitlin nearly killed a kid and let someone else take the fall for it (which nearly killed Diana, seeing as she felt guilty as hell over something she didn't do) and somehow manages to figure that Caitlin's not completely horrible. So they date and when he realizes that Caitlin/Jed is always going to be endgame, he graciously steps out of the way so that Caitlin can be with the Montana man of her dreams. And he's a nice guy in general. So nice that Caitlin thinks nothing of setting him up with her soon to be sister in law the previous book.
Yeah, somehow he's now been seriously involved with some chick named Nancy for eons and he's stringing Melanie along and he's a watered down version of himself with no redeaming qualities whatsoever.
Why?
WHY?
All because we need to have it shown to CAITLIN FRICKIN' RYAN, the queen of "people can change!" that... people can change. All of that BS is so that Ginny (Caitlin's best friend from HS) can say, "We were just talking about Laurence changing, well, Julian has too. But for the better, not the worse."
Are.
You.
Kidding.
Me?
I mean, I get that some people change for the worse and it's not always people who started out badly to begin with. Life sucks sometimes. I personally think Jed suffered a lobotomy somewhere after the first trilogy but whatever.
This pissed me off as a kid and it still pisses me off now. Who knew?
Well, how about Caitlin's grandmother dying for starters.
Caitlin winds up back home, doing exactly what Grandmother Regina wanted (being head of Ryan Mining) while Jed moans and complains about Caitlin not just selling the company and heading back to NYC immediately. But things are going rather well with the company because Caitlin has a natural head for business. Or is capable of signing on the proper dotted line, who knows. There's much talk of redecorating her grandmother's office and the house in general, and wow, it must be nice to be so rich.
Throw in the return of Colin the horrible lawyer attempting to sabatoge Caitlin (and, I suppose, the company) and some lawyer/PI named Howard and you've got your story. Will Caitlin come out on top, will she break more hearts, will you wish these books came with sacks of money?
The thing that actually really bothered me about Forever and Always is the character assassination of Laurence Baxter. Remember him? In the Loving trilogy, he's the guy who finds out that Caitlin nearly killed a kid and let someone else take the fall for it (which nearly killed Diana, seeing as she felt guilty as hell over something she didn't do) and somehow manages to figure that Caitlin's not completely horrible. So they date and when he realizes that Caitlin/Jed is always going to be endgame, he graciously steps out of the way so that Caitlin can be with the Montana man of her dreams. And he's a nice guy in general. So nice that Caitlin thinks nothing of setting him up with her soon to be sister in law the previous book.
Yeah, somehow he's now been seriously involved with some chick named Nancy for eons and he's stringing Melanie along and he's a watered down version of himself with no redeaming qualities whatsoever.
Why?
WHY?
All because we need to have it shown to CAITLIN FRICKIN' RYAN, the queen of "people can change!" that... people can change. All of that BS is so that Ginny (Caitlin's best friend from HS) can say, "We were just talking about Laurence changing, well, Julian has too. But for the better, not the worse."
Are.
You.
Kidding.
Me?
I mean, I get that some people change for the worse and it's not always people who started out badly to begin with. Life sucks sometimes. I personally think Jed suffered a lobotomy somewhere after the first trilogy but whatever.
This pissed me off as a kid and it still pisses me off now. Who knew?
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