4.5 Sad to See it End Stars
‘The night we met I knew I needed you so.’ Do you know the song?”
“Is the next line something like ‘and if I had the chance, I’d never let you go’?”
“Yeah, that’s it,” he said smiling sheepishly.
“Be My Baby,” I said softly, shaking my head in recognition.
“That’s when I knew I loved you, Tylar. That’s when I knew I wanted you to be my baby forever. I didn’t even know you but I loved you – crazy stuff, huh?”
Be My Baby Lite, Trey and Tylar’s final book, had me laughing one minute and crying the next. I started this book immediately after finishing Baby Love Lite because I needed the conclusion to this couples story NOW.
The beginning of this book has life finally calming down for Tylar and Trey. After surviving a sexual predator from Tylar’s past, a bat shit crazy “mother” who turns out to not be quite what she seems, in laws and family friends from hell and a litany of other dramas no two people should ever have to face, the couple are somewhat settled in their new home and looking forward to the birth of their second child. At this point in the series you don’t even have to ask “what could go wrong?” You just know it will, and boy does the shit ever hit the fan!
After suffering a heartbreaking loss, Trey and Tylar both deal with the tragedy in different and solitary ways. Trey focuses on work and his new mentoring buddy, Amber, who I came to regard as simply “the bitch.” Tylar shuts down and does her best to move on without ever really giving herself the chance to grieve. With their relationship strained beyond its limits, Trey makes a stupid mistake and Tylar’s there to witness it. The two must find a way to come together after Tylar makes a stupid mistake of her own.
One of the reasons I loved this book, and the series, as much as I did is because even though Tylar and Trey appear to have it all as a couple, there’s always something for them to overcome and deal with. They jumped into a committed relationship and I found myself believing more and more in their love when they did work together to meet the challenges of their relationship. This book, more than any of the previous, tested their bond. How do you forgive an infidelity? How do you grieve as a couple when one of you refuses to grieve? When these two worked through their issues and came out stronger because of it, I truly believed they deserved their happily ever after.
”Last night you finally let loose with your grief after all of this time. I should have never let you go on for so long like that. Look what we’ve done to each other.”
As emotional as this book is, there were more than enough humorous and light hearted moments to keep it from dragging. Gina has to be one of the greatest friends a girl can have and I’m so glad she got her own story in Baby Come Back Lite. Preston, Tylar and Trey’s toddler made me smile every single time she entered the scene.
”Horsey? Mama pay horsey?”
“She doesn’t know what she saw. You heard her, she thought we were playing horsey,” he chuckled.
No, sweetie, it wasn’t horsey they were playing. I’m giving this book 4.5 stars because that’s just how much I enjoyed it. Was the writing perfect? No, but I loved the story itself so much that I was completely able to look past that fact which is a rarity for me.
Would I recommend this book and the series to friends? You bet! I’m a little sad to be done with it, but I look forward to reading other books by Andrea Smith in the future.
ARC provided by the Author in exchange for an honest review