Saving Forever

The Ever Trilogy #3

by Jasinda Wilder

Ever and Cade,

Sorry I vanished like I did. I’m not sure I can even explain things. I don’t know when I’ll be back. IF I’ll be back. I’m not sure of anything, except that I love you, Ever. You’re my twin, my best friend, and leaving you was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I know you don’t understand. Maybe you never will. I hope you don’t, honestly. It would be easier that way. That’s cowardly, I’m sure.

Cade, take care of her. Love her, the way she deserves. The way you always have, for forever and always.

If I could ask you anything, it’s that you remember me as I was, and forget me as I am.

I’m sorry, and goodbye, and I love you.

Eden

Genres: Romance, New Adult, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Ebooks, Drama, Fiction

528 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 14, 2014

About the author

Jasinda Wilder is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of more than 100 titles including the #1 Amazon bestseller Falling Into You, the Audie Award-winning (best audiobook) Alpha, and the beloved, 17-book Badd Brothers series. She and her husband Jack Wilder have sold more than 7 million copies and have been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. You can find them at their fairy tale cottage by a lake somewhere in Michigan with their 6 kids, 5 dogs, 2 cats, 2 bunnies, and way too many ducks and chickens.

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Reviews

[Annmarie · Rating 1 out of 5]

OMG and not in a good way.
Spoilers BIG FAT ONES so if you don't want to know stop now......
Spoiler rant approaching, getting closer, closer.....
And .....begin rant:
WTF. First Eden gets away with everything, doesn't even get yelled at or have it out at all with Ever. She gets a man and a marriage and gets to enjoy her life with no consequences or responsibilities. ( I'll get to the 'no responsibilities in a bit)
She sinks her claws into a man who is sad and lost his wife while she was miscarrying. She walked around half naked and just happened to be everywhere he was. This is just the kicker folks, Carter hasn't spoken for a year after his wife's death and all of a sudden BANG he speaks to Eden. That's not random, not at all. OK. They get closer and closer and she finally tells him what's up. He excuses everything and still wants her. OK.
Meanwhile back in crazy town, Cade is pushing Ever away emotional and physically as she recovers. She knows something is up but he's not talking and she feels like he doesn't want her. SHE feels guilty and wants to help HIM with his sadness. WTF!!!!???!?!?!
Cade is waiting until she finds out because he knows she will leave. I mean who would stay? You'd have to be a complete and total fucking idiot with no self worth right? Well.... You'd think.
Anyway, Ever is now better and painting but she missed Eden and feels bad for her. Mmmhmm, I know what your thinking cause I thought the same, fuck that jealous whore. Well Ever decides to go find Eden at their parents old cabin. By this time Eden has had the baby.
Eden and Carter have grown very close by now and he's staying with her. Ever and Caden show up and see the baby. Ever freaks and leaves. No begging for forgiveness from Eden or Caden, nothing. Ever leaves and goes driving for a week. Cade stays near Eden's cabin at a motel. Ever comes back, yes you read right, comes back and calmly asks what happened. He gives her a condensed version (meanwhile we got to read all the fucking nasty gross details of them screwing from behind and all the other cheating activities). After he tells her he turns to leave. Doesn't beg for her forgiveness or anything, literally he is going to leave. Asshole, yeah, I can feel how much he loves her, giving up like that. Then the unthinkable happens, she begs him not to leave. WTF??!?!!! They go to Eden's and Ever forgives her just like that. And we don't even get to hear what happened in the conversation. It skips the whole thing, yup.
Then Eden decided she didn't want the baby, she doesn't feel a connection, doesn't want to be a mom and all that. Well, that's real class for you, here's where the responsibilities come in. She pawns the baby off on Ever and Caden. She apparently didn't feel like she needed to be responsible for the baby, since she apparently spread her legs for one and all through the course of her life, I'm honestly shocked this is her first baby. I know you may think 'oh great a baby for Ever' now think, this baby represents your husband's penis inside your sister's body, in more than one place and many many times. Harsh I know but there it is. The baby is innocent and Caden's, I get that, and Ever is a saint, or just an idiot, who knows. It would not be me, I can tell you that. Forgiveness, okay, I get that too, but before you buy into the books HEA, please go back and reread all the sex scenes in the second book and come back to this book.
Is it believable, he'll friggin no. She forgave them right away, and I mean literally in like 2-3 pages. Then Ever has to convince Caden of their love again, she has to fight for them! What in the ever living fuck is this author thinking? Are you serious right now?! It's like Caden is the victim or something. There was no groveling or even an effort to be forgiven and Ever put in all the effort, which I think makes her an idiot. No one is that forgiving, I know it's a book but there has to be some consequence! There literally is none. Eden gets away with it all! No consequence at all and she gets married to Carter. Are you serious right now?!?!?! She gets a HEA?? Are we supposed to feel bad because she whored herself out to anyone who wanted a dip in the community pool and felt like she was chubby? Every girl feels like she's chubby, it's called peer pressure and adolescence. No I don't feel bad for you at all. Ever went through the same loss as you and didn't have any friends either, she also had a boyfriend that cheated on her and her only other companion was a pen pal for years. Eden was jealous plain and simple, she is irresponsible and a manipulative wench. She doesn't deserve Carter and I hated having to read about his love for her.
Ever and Caden, well, now they are parents and Ever seems happy which is totally unbelievable. Even in the realm of fiction, for her to forgive him in such a short time was ridiculous. He couldn't even forgive himself for months and Eden ran away, but that was more for her selfishness not wanting to have to deal head on with the shame. But that's how bad it was, even they knew it and Ever just said basically 'well I love you both so I forgive you' and that's it. This book was so disappointing. If the second book had been less graphic or had them sleep together only one time and they both hated themselves after maybe I would have loved this book, but every sex scene with Cade and Ever I just remember him with Eden and I wanted to puke.
Conclusion after long rant:
No retribution, no apologies, no groveling or fighting for Ever's love and forgiveness on the part of Eden or Caden, just Ever getting shit on again and taking on all the responsibility for everyone else's fuck ups and selfishness. She really forgave everyone without them asking for it and had to convince her husband, the cheater who fathered her sisters baby during an ongoing affair while she was in a coma, to stay with her.
Well that's a feel good book if I've ever read one, puke. I feel robbed out of my revenge. How could the author be so heartless in the second book and then poof, the last book is everyone happy and smily and all is forgiven. Oh, let's not forget that the town train gets a HEA with an amazing guy, gets out of the responsibility of raising a child because she doesn't feel like it, and gets the love of her sister, whose husband she thought nothing of fucking while she was in a coma.
Robbed and cheated, that's how I feel. I told myself not to read this but I hoped beyond hope for Ever I find someone else, maybe Carter, but no, with no effort on anyone's part but Evers, everything is unicorns and rainbows. Pathetic, truly pathetic. I can't write anymore I'm just done being upset with this trilogy and this author.
The 1 star is for Carter.

[Geri Reads · Rating 1 out of 5]

I promise myself I won't go off the rails with this review but I really can't help it. This book just made me sad. :(

First, Jasinda Wilder will always be one of those authors who will push the envelope, and chuck the rule book on romance writing out the window. I admire that but more often than not, it can either be a hit or miss with most readers. And this one was big miss for me.

Second, I started this series with a full knowledge of its controversial "themes" so to speak. So in a way I was more prepared and the angst didn't really hit me that hard. In fact, it wasn't the "cheating" itself that made this a wallbanger for me. What angered me more was the lack of groveling on the part of the hero. And the heroine just accepting everything after all that's happened, left a bitter taste in mouth. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

SPOILERS GALORE!! LOOK AWAY NOW IF YOU HAVEN'T READ BOOK 1 & 2!!

SERIOUSLY!! WALK AWAY!!

Book two, After Forever, was brutal. It was hard to read about Ever being in coma and Cade succumbing to depression and eventually to temptation. And to Ever's twin sister no less. As much as I hated Cade and Eden for what they did while Ever was in a coma, I hated what happened in this book even more.

Saving Forever is the third and last book in the trilogy and it deals with the fallout of Cade and Eden's betrayal. Ever is finally awake and trying so hard to recapture what she had lost. She lost more than a year of her life, and just when she was finally starting to deal with it, she gets dealt with another blow: she will never bear a child ever again. Never. The doctor had to take out her uterus. She was pregnant at the time of the accident and suffered a hemorrhage, so in order to save her life, the doctors performed a hysterectomy.

In the meantime, Cade is feeling guilty, guilty, guilty. He knew what he did was unforgivable and the guilt became too much for him to bear. Not only that, Eden is MIA and Ever doesn't know where she is and how she's doing. Of course, readers know that Eden left to hide her pregnancy from Ever and Cade.

As I've said earlier, After Forever made my heart and head hurt. So I was really looking forward to where Jasinda is going to take this story. Plus, I was ecstatic when I heard it was going to be 500 plus pages long. But I was really disappointed. DISAPPOINTED. I was looking forward to 500 plus pages of Cade groveling and Ever and Cade dealing with the fallout of her husband and twin's betrayal. I was looking forward to it. In fact, I convinced myself that the only way I could believe in their HEA was if Cade groveled or Cade and Eden gets what's coming to them.

So imagine my surprise when page after page was all about Cade feeling guilty, Eden feeling guilty, Cade feeling guilty again. And oh look, Eden got herself a gorgeous new man and Cade feeling guilty, and Eden feeling conflicted but so horny because Carter is just too hot and so on and so forth. When Ever finally discovered the truth, I was waiting for that explosion from Ever and that grovel from Cade but I got nothing. Instead, Ever just said a few words, left Cade and Eden with the baby and eight days after--EIGHT DAYS, she came back and all is forgiven. To say that it was anticlimactic was a major understatement.

I'm all for forgiveness and shit but forgetting? No way. That will take a long time. Lonngggg tiiiiiimmmeeee! Preferably forever. The betrayal was just so huge and so monumental that to forgive and forget in eight days was just unrealistic even by romantic fiction standard. They didn't talk about it at all. It was all "I love you very much and I can't live without you and I forgive you."

It was unrealistic. I mean, come on, your husband had an affair with your twin for six months, while you were in a coma, and your twin got pregnant by your husband. And oh, you can't have babies anymore because you don't have a uterus. After everything that's happened, it only took 8 days for Ever's character to process everything, forgive everyone and I'm suppose to buy into their HEA? In what universe?

And just when I thought it couldn't get any more pathetic, it did. Eden didn't "feel" any "connection" to the child. So she "gave it up" to Cade and Ever to raise. Just like that. And they fucking live happily ever after. :(

Final thoughts...
Let's just say, for the sake of argument that in romance, cheating is an obstacle that needs to be conquered by the main characters. Following that logic, I expected Cade and Ever to deal with the betrayal and the baby, repair what was broken between them and then have their HEA. What I got instead was Cade feeling guilty throughout the book, which was fine and dandy. But feeling guilty and actually doing something to win back the trust that he callously threw away are two different things. Feeling guilty should be followed by a whole lot of groveling. In that respect, this book just missed the mark. By a mile.

Another problem I had with this book was that it seemed like the author was intent on redeeming Eden and giving her HEA that she left Cade and Ever's story by the wayside. This book failed to explore the nuances of how cheating affect relationship and how it changes everything especially with a baby being born out of that relationship. The characters simply didn't grow in my opinion.

I wanted to see them deal with the situation in an honest and realistic way. The fact that the whole sordid affair went down pretty much in the apartment that Ever and Cade shared before and after the accident was too significant of a betrayal to miss. All the cheating took place in their bedroom, on their marriage bed. It was just too much to be forgiven in eight days. Honestly, Ever just became of caricature of herself. Her actions didn't make sense. She was hurt when she found out her ex-boyfriend cheated on her and it did a number on her self-esteem, and here's her own twin and husband doing the same thing and she just accepted it without examining what it meant?

I just don't get it. It doesn't make sense and it doesn't add up to her character in the first book.

And Eden? Her story was a waste of pages. I won't begrudge her character finding her own HEA but at least not in this series yet. But this series was pretty much about her. Ever figured prominently only in the first book, after that, it was Eden all the way. I think this whole series was really about Eden and the author was just pulling our leg by naming it Ever Trilogy. Maybe this should have been renamed as the Eden Trilogy; with titles like ForEden and Always, After ForEden and Saving ForEden. Why not? Because not only did Eden got herself a new man, she gets to keep her uterus. (I'm really upset about the uterus thing. Can't you tell?)

Seriously, this series should be renamed. This was about Eden all along. I loved Carter's character and I wish, he was written for Ever instead. Ever should have dumped Cade's sorry ass and hook up with Carter. Eden and Cade could fall in love for all I care. That would have been a much believable HEA, IMO. But nah! Eden has to have Carter because she's insecure and she's never been loved and therefore, she needs her uterus more than Ever.

Which led me to ask, what's the point of going through all that angst when I can't buy into this farce of an HEA? And furthermore, the message I got from reading this book was that if you're beautiful, perfect, popular and thin, you probably need to be cheated on, TWICE, get into a car accident, slip into a coma for a year and half, and lose your uterus just to, you know, even out the score between you and your poor, insecure twin sister.

[Candace · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow! This series has been one screwed-up, emotional ride! I'm still trying to come to terms with everything that transpired in book 2. I definitely have a love/hate relationship with Eden and Cade. I'm not sure if I want to hug them or punch them.

This book tells all of their stories, running in parallel. Eden has "ran away" to her mother's old lake cabin. While she tries to bury her shame and reinvent herself, she befriends Carter, who is also living with the tremendous burden of guilt. As their friendship grows into more, they help each other face their own personal demons. Slowly, they heal together.

Ever has begun the long, slow process of recovery. She knows that something has changed in her relationship with Cade, but is scared to face whatever it is that continues to haunt him. She can see the guilt every time she looks at him, but is in for the shock of a lifetime.

As with the earlier books in the series, this one was a highly emotional read. My heart went out to all of the characters, but especially Ever. I just can't even imagine what she must have felt when that betrayal came to light. She was certainly more forgiving than I would have been.

My biggest complaint with this book was that everything ended too perfectly. It just didn't ring true to me. Given the circumstances, I would expect some big-time groveling, but it never happened. In fact, after all the anticipation an build-up, the way things were wrapped up so nicely with a bow felt anticlimactic.

All things said, I did enjoy this series. It was emotional and angsty, but a great, heartwrenching story. If you're looking for a story that will put you through the wringer emotionally, look no further.

[mel ☽ · Rating 1 out of 5]

1 star

some might ask, "mel, why the f do you keep reading these books?"
well folks, i have this little monster inside of me called curiosity and, well, it always, ALWAYS wins. and if i don't satiate it? uhh let's just say i become even more obsessive than Joe Goldberg. so alas, here i am again reading these so that y'all won't suffer.

anyways, i hate this now more than ever and im one step away from turning into the Hulk. why?

1. H sugarcoating his cheating to the h:

"How long? How many times?"
"I don't even remember. I stopped keeping track. I never counted. It wasn't just once, but... that's all that matters. There's no way in hell I'll tell you details."

HA ha ha. oh lord. she just has to read the second book to know all the details.
"I dOn'T eVeN rEmEmBeR" pfft yeah right. well I DO, you jerk.

2. h forgiving so damn easily and was the one who had to BEG the H to stay with her and to keep loving her and she was even glad it was her sister he cheated on her with and not some rando??

"But the fact it was Eden? That's harder. It makes it better in some ways, honestly. It's strange, but...it would hurt more if it had been some random girl, someone who meant nothing to you. I don't know, maybe that's messed up a little, but it's my truth.”

lmaooo who in their right minds would react like this after finding out your twin sister and your husband had the best sex of their lives and did almost everything except anal.

3. H acting like the victim, moping around while the h fights for their marriage.
4. H never getting a pov when there's an intimate scene between him and h so now i'll forever think about how hard he "orgasmed" all the damn time with the OW, how he "never fucked anyone harder in his life" until the OW, or how whenever there's a sex scene with h and H i always go, "you ain't special sweetie, he did that to your twin sister in the last book."
5. OH and did i mention H and OW had a kid?!
6. OH oh or the fact that OW and H never had karma and OW ended up with a nice man while H is forgiven faster than Thanos snapping his fingers? damn. karma is, in fact, not a bitch to them huh?

anyways, speaking of Thanos, i would rather be snapped off this universe than reread these books ever again.

[Em · Rating 1 out of 5]

My first thoughts after finishing this book, REALLY? That's some BS.



Let me start by saying that I am one of those readers that couldn't give two shits about saving these relationships so if you're one of the people that want the HEA for everyone then don't read my review.

This was honestly really disappointing and really boring at some points, Ever looks stupid and all the other characters are just sorry. When Ever finds out she honestly reacts like it's no big deal. She yells for like a second then runs off then turns around and forgives him, what the hell is that? When Ever says she forgives Caden even he seems like he wants to say "Are you fucking dumb?" Ever has some respect for yourself please, you find out that your husband cheated with your twin sister and had a baby and then you forgive them both after like 5 minutes, that's ridiculous.
Every lady here with a sister please raise your hand if you would ever do anything like this to your sister? And keep your hand raised if you would just take these two people back into your life just like that? I'm sure almost 100% of us would never do that to someone we love and NONE of us would be like "Yeah of course come back into my life after you royally fucked it up."

We all know what we would do in this situation and what Ever should have done


Instead she over looks it like if it's nothing, that's your HUSBAND and she's your SISTER it's not okay whether we look at it from left, right, all around, this is complete BS. Eden and Cade just walk away from this like nothing. I don't care for all the excuses that are made for them: they were lost, they were lonely, they had no one else, she looked exactly like Ever he couldn't help himself. That's sick. This whole series went to garbage with what these two selfish assholes did. There is no one here that would just over look what they did and say "I completely understand let's move on." You don't do that to your wife, you most definitely NEVER do that to your sister, and you don't take people back into your life when they don't deserve you. Forgiving them is one thing, we all mess up and we all deserve forgiveness but have the self respect to walk away from people and things that have done you wrong.

EVER SHOULD HAVE WALKED AWAY. All this love Cade and Eden say they have for her seems fake because of what they did. Whatever the excuses if you truly love someone you would never do what they did so I don't believe them. Ever didn't need to understand their pain, she didn't need to let these gross individuals back in her life, what she needed was someone to be real with her. For these characters to say "I fucked up far beyond deserving you and I think you need something better."

It's incredibly annoying that Jasinda wants to write all the ugly situations and mistakes that happen in real life but doesn't want to back it up with what someone in Ever's situation would really do. If you want to be real then do it in every area of the story, don't fuck it up far beyond bad then pull a HEA out of your ass and say we should try to understand why these characters made these decisions. Honestly I am so happy to be done with this mess of a trilogy, needless to say it was disappointing and I wish I had never started it. Some people may say we should all be able to read something that reflects the nasty things that happen in real life and that may be true, but I didn't sign up to read a book version of The Maury Show or Jerry Springer. Yes this happens in real life but when it does none of us sit on the couch and say "Aw I really hope she forgives her cheating husband and her sister even though they betrayed her and are now having a baby." NO NO NO, when things like this happen in real life at least for me, I see that person and hope that they can one day pick themselves up from that mess, realize that they did nothing wrong to deserve it, and move on to something better.

So long Ever, Cade, Eden, and all your fucked up shit. Finally done with you.

[Christy · Rating 4 out of 5]

After it’s all said and done, this nerve wracking trilogy is over. The first book, I really loved it. It kept me interested and I fell in love with Ever and Caden. Their story touched me. The second book. Holy hell. I have no words. It messed with my head and my emotions. This third book wasn’t quite as angsty or hard to read as the second, and we get a lot of closure. Written from the point of views of not only Eden and Ever, but Caden and Carter, too, you really get to see whats going on from all directions.

Note to readers: if you haven’t read the first two books, there will be some storyline spoilers.

Lets start first with Carter and Eden. Carter lives near the cabin Eden ran off to at the end of book 2. She needs time to be alone, to figure out her life and what shes going to do. Time to let Caden and Ever be together and heal. Carter is unexpected. He comes out of nowhere, and after staying silent for a long time, he comes out of his shell to talk to Eden. He befriends her. Carter is there for her in every way she will let him be. He truly is an amazing man. He talks with Eden, gives her good advice. He wants more from her, but she can’t go there. not yet.

“Accept the guilt, acknowledge your fault. Then, live. Learn from it, and keep going. You don’t forget, you don’t block it or bury it. You just... live. Don’t let guilt define you.”

“Just friends, something else, whatever. I don’t care. I’m not asking for anything, Eden. I’m just... here. For you. I like you, and I want to be there. In whatever capacity you need me.”

“You may be afraid. But the choice is mine. Not yours. You don’t get to make that choice for me. You can choose to not let me love you, but you can’t tell me what’s too much for me to handle. That’s for me to decide.”

Eden... was she my favorite character? No. Did I like her? Not really. But I didn’t hate her like I did in the first book. And she idd something that actually somewhat redeemed herself. Now Carter on the other hand, I loved that boy!

“I need to see all of you. Feel you. Touch you. Kiss you all over. Show you what real love feels like.”

He may be my favorite character of the trilogy! I mean, really... swoon! I almost hate that he ended up with Eden, because she isn’t my favorite, but sometimes people fit together in ways you wouldn’t expect. I think he was able to bring out a better side of Eden than anyone else could. He was very kind, sweet, selfless, and caring.





Now to Ever and Caden. One word can best describe Caden in this book. Guilty. The guilt he feels is waying down on him. And he can’t tell Ever what he did and what happened. He fears if he does, he’ll lose her forever. She is all he has, his one true love and only family. He can’t lose her. Ever knows something is going on with Cade. He’s not the same. She needs him to be there for her, no matter what happened while she was in the coma.

“I need you to love me. I need you to tell me it’s going to be okay. Lie to me if you have to, and tell me everything will be okay. I’m lost, Cade. And you’re the only north I have.”

As time goes on, Cade only retreats more and more. He want to be the man Ever needs, but the guilt of what he’s done is consuming him.

“I’m sorry... for being broken when you need to be whole.”

Ever and Cade had a hard journey ahead of them. A lot of forgiveness, love and healing.

“We had forever, and it was taken from us. Let’s save our forever, Cade. Let’s take it back.”


After getting these two separate stories for most of the book, we finally get the four of them together. The part I’d been waiting on. I was on the edge of my seat. When all the pieces fall together, what will happen? Will the two couples make it through this? Will the two sisters be reunited? Or will the love between them be lost forever?


This series evoked so many emotions in me. At times, it was painful to read. From any other author, I’m not sure if I would have kept going after I noticed the turn book 2 was taking, but this is Jasinda Wilder here. I love her writing. As hard as it was to read at times, it was also beautiful, real, and raw. None of us are perfect. These characters are majorly flawed, but they show the possibility of forgiveness when you truly love someone and redemption for those who feel unredeemable. I know these books aren’t for everyone, but if you are in the right mindset and can handle an emotional and angsty read, I would recommend this series!

“I love you. No matter what. Forever and Always.”

[Lucy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well this was a disappointment. I finished this one quick as I skipped a lot of the chapters dealing with Carter and Eden. Eden did not deserve a HEA and I had no interest in reading about her finding love and redemption. Fuck her!

As I said in my review of book 2, I don't mind infidelity in fiction. But I need to see fallout and consequences. Infidelity destroys lives and I was hoping this book would deal with the consequences of Caden & Eden's betrayal in a realistic fashion but this was not the case.



At 70% in, the secret still had not come out. Ever didn't know about the affair and Caden had no clue he was a father. So it was pretty clear that things were going to be cleared up quickly and swept under the rug in order to give all a HEA.

So Ever finds out about the affair and it only takes her 7 whole days to forgive both her shitty husband and shitty sister. 7 DAYS!!!! That is all the time it took for Ever to forgive!!!



She claims she can't live without Caden. Caden doesn't have to grovel because Ever is like a pathetic little puppy just willing to accept anything. I like to think of myself as a forgiving person but I'm pretty sure it would take me more than 7 freaking days to take back a no good cheating lying dog of a husband.

Now of course the thing with the baby is all tied up neatly. When Ever was in the car accident she lost her baby and needed a hysterectomy. So "selfless" Eden decides to give up her baby so Ever and Caden can raise her. Eden then goes on to say that Ever should raise her baby because and I quote...

"You could adopt, or foster. But...it won't be the same. This is your blood, Ever."

Way to insult adoptive parents and adoptive children Eden. You stupid twat!

Anyways Eden marries Carter, Ever and Caden renew their vows and Ever & Caden name the affair baby......

CADENCE





By the end of this book I hated every character.

[Lyndsey · Rating 1 out of 5]

I skipped most of Eden and Carter's story because I have never disliked a character so much and didn't really care what happened with her. I just wanted to know how it ended. and i didn't like it So this book gets one star from me.

[Jenny · Rating 1 out of 5]

I do not understand the glamorization of cheating in some of the YA/NA books I've read.

No honor among thieves and all. I could not believe the excuses both Eden and Cade used to justify the unjustifiable. No, it is not okay to cheat because you're scared and lonely and you're afraid your wife/twin sister is going to die.

Neither character showed any ethical backbone. They were narcissistic people who rationalized all their actions. Guess what? We all do have control over our actions and the ability to overcome our basest desires and there are consequences for bad behavior. Or at least there is in real life. Scared? Lonely? Seek out a support group or a therapist. Don't screw your wife's sister/ husband.

Disgusting.

Meanwhile, Ever is TSTL. She deserves what she gets because she doesn't stand up for herself.

I am on the verge of throwing in the towel with YA/NA "romances". Cheating seems to be used as a trope for "edgy" and overcoming it a trope for overcoming great odds.

Sometimes a spade is indeed a spade and jerks are actually just that. Jerks.

It's going to be fun to tell that kid years from now the story of her conception. Poor kid.

[Abbyreads · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars. I'm not really sure how I feel about this book or series.

I hated the second book but wanted to see how things would end. I guess they ended okay. I didn't buy into the HEA though. Ever was made into this saintly character that had an unbelievable forgiving ability. I was blown away that after the truth finally came out, all it took was a week and then BAM! Caden and Eden are forgiven completely by Ever. It felt like what happened didn't really matter and I hated that. To top it off, both Caden and Eden spent most of this book consumed in their own personal wallowing and excuses rather than talking full responsibly for their actions and choices. Both were pretty pathetic during most of this book. Especially, Caden. And I really hated how Ever's forgiveness of Eden was brushed under the rug. We didn't get to hear the conversation between the two sister when it happened. We got nothing. Nothing. It was almost like Eden did nothing wrong in the eyes of Ever after they talked. That pissed me off!

I skimmed through Eden's parts of this book. I didn't really care about her or her HEA. I did like Carter but I wasn't interested in his relationship with Eden. Ever was the one who deserved someone as awesome as Carter not Eden. I felt Ever got the lesser man of the two heroes in this book. I'm not saying Eden wasn't somewhat redeemable (though she's still extremely self centered) but I felt she got her HEA way too easily. I'm not sure how I feel about the events surrounding the baby. A little too convenient if you ask me.

In many ways I feel this book was a copout. It didn't feel realistic to life or to the way the second book was written. This story's resolution was just too easy. Way too easy and unrealistic. Do I believe in forgiveness. Yes! Of a marriage surviving a form of betrayal? Yes! As easily as it came in this book? NO!

I've now lost faith in Ms. Wilder as an author and storyteller. Not because she wrote this type of story but because she didn't stay true to her storytelling. You can't write a story like After Forever, which shows the heartbreaking grey areas of life, then follow it up with this fairytale type of HEA. It's NOT believeable!!!

[Stephanie D · Rating 1 out of 5]

Whoa!!! I honestly am surprised with all the four star. I mean, all the emotional stuff tugs the heart strings, but seriously???????? The second book was like.... Whoaaaaaa!!! And I honestly expected repercussions from those actions!!!!! Not sainthood!!!! I know I'm too emotional right now. But seriosuly.. The husband and twin sister??? I know, all the emptiness.. Blah blah blah.. The guilt. Atleast caden's character stuck. But Ever??? I am soooo disappointed at her. You cannot imagine your life without him?? Its like giving him permission to cheat. And you forgive him after a week of driving???

I'm sorry, this story is too twisted for me. The climax was poorly written. In sense, that the MAIN ISSUE(cheating and pregnancy) got swept under the rug. Such an injustice to a great first book.

I'm a sucker for HEA but this one is just.......

[Bekah · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was so very disappointed in this conclusion to the Ever Trilogy. I loved the first book, accepted the second (even if it made my stomach turn) then was looking forward to the angst, emotions, turmoil, guilt, groveling, redemption, and finally love conquering all ending. We got some angst, there were emotional scenes, definitely thoughts of guilt and inner turmoil, but really no redemption. I needed Caden and Eden to earn their HEA, earn forgiveness, earn the right to still be in Evers (and really my) heart again, and I'm sorry to say neither did. That is really the only way that trilogy could have worked, especially after book two.

It was just really painful to read Caden and Ever's parts. I know Caden feels soooo guilty, sure that's great, but what was he doing to make things right for Ever. Sure he stood by her thru therapy, and helped her relearn how to function, that's the least he can do being her husband. But where was the emotional support. Scene after scene of Ever begging Caden to be there emotionally, to want her physically. I mean how can the author have the victim beg her cheating husband who supposedly the love of her life to please want her, to be with her. It was heartbreaking. After finishing this book, I just had to go back to book 2 cuz maybe the betrayal wasn't that bad maybe I didn't remember right, but no it was just even more heartbreaking. The passion between Caden and Eden was beyond hot, they needed each other like an addiction. The fact that they did things with each other that they never did with others, that Caden never did with Ever, and kept coming back for more was just a slap in the face of this reader who is supposed to buy this HEA. Eden just kept pushing for things with Caden, and weak as he was just kept giving in and going back for more. Where was the passion between Ever and Caden. It was like he didn't even desire her anymore. She had to beg. That was strike one.

Then we finally get to the climax, the scene we've been craving , waiting during this whole book for, the beginning of the redemption of Caden and Eden, because really these characters have done NOTHING to earn Ever's (or my) forgiveness till this point, and here's our angst. Ever is devastated, she runs away, and rightly so, she has to get away. But wait, she comes back a week later, for her answers, and mine too. Cuz as a reader I had many questions, and did she as them? No she didn't:

1. When did it start?
2. How many times?
3. In my Bed?
4. On my couch?
5. Did you think of me when you were with her? We are twins after all.
6. Do you compare us now? Do you prefer her stronger, muscular, fuller body?
7. Do you still desire her? Are you still attracted to her?
8. Did you fall in love? Did you guys fall in love with each other?
9. Did you ever use protection or even think about protection in the 6 months you were together?? Have you gotten tested, cuz let's face it Eden was not picky.
10. Do you miss her?
11. # 7 again
12. #6 again
13. # 8 again

If I have these questions, and he wasn't my forever love, why didn't Ever ask them?? These are normal things that would go through a persons mind after a betrayal like this, especially when it involves her twin sister. Ever started to ask questions, but Caden wasn't very forthcoming other than we see his guilt and shame. There was no begging , no groveling, no grand declarations of love and devotion. He was just going to walk away with his tail between his legs. Get this, the author made Ever beg again. Beg Caden to stay. Beg Caden to give their love another try. Beg Caden to love her, to desire her again. WTF??? Why, why why can't we get some kind of indication that Caden is sorry? That he LOVES her. He feels bad, feels guilt, feels shame, but I didn't really feel he was really sorry. I still felt the passion and desperation from book 2, I felt the almost love that Caden and Eden talked about, but just didn't want to say straight up, I remember Eden running to Caden (naked) saying what they just had was love. I remember Caden questioning his love for Eden. I wanted to feel the love for Ever, the forever kinda love from the 1st book I wanted to remember why we fell in love with this couple. I wanted to be convinced of Caden's devotion, love of Ever after his affair, but I just didn't get it in book 3, not even close. Strike Two.

We didn't even see Evers conversation with Eden, how can anyone read this book and be satisfied without this closure between these two major characters??? I want to know what Ever said and how Eden responded, especially since Eden was ok with facing the music when Ever found out (she said this so she can carry on with Evers husband). I want to see her face the music, I want to see her face her sister. She ran away, she left. In order for Eden to earn her redemption I needed to see how this was handled, see Ever get her explanations, be convinced Eden even deserves her HEA with Carter. And she did NOT. There was no redemption for Eden, no earned forgiveness. This was a huge disappointment! And that's strike three!


Well the author got my emotions going, I'll give her that. But in order for me to enjoy the story I have to be satisfied with the story, be convinced in the characters redemption so I can believe they've earned their HEA. Caden never got to that point, he was a weak character with no growth, we started to see a bit of growth towards the end in the Epilogue, but the author rushed it and didn't really show it. Too little, too late. He did not earn my forgiveness. Eden was just not going to earn my forgiveness, period, but I was hoping for a tolerance for her character, an acceptance that maybe she deserves Carter and her HEA, but it NEVER happened, not even close. I feel so bad for Ever, maybe since she escaped death her perception is off, maybe she's just grateful to be alive and is ok for settling for these supposed family members she has left, but really she deserves better. Better than Caden, better than Eden, and better than Ms. Wilder! Three strikes and Saving Forever is OUT!

[Rejane]

Ugly and repulsive defines this series. Someone said this is the anti love story. I'd say it's a 101 on how to be the best cheater of all. And worse: makes us women look like doormats, brainless, stupid weak. Who would forgive their sister and husband having lots of sex together with a pregnancy in the package? Ohhh.. but she was in a coma. They were grieving. Really. Selfish despicable people. And for the female mc to forgive?! Honestly, I hope she gets betrayed again. In real life I'd expect it to. She's just too stupid, too forgiving, too accepting.
The recipe to be used for her entire life.

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[Lu Bielefeld]

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the bitch sister gets pregnant by the heroine's husband and still leaves the child for her to raise... the traitor son of a bitch doesn't ask for forgiveness or grovel and moron forgives everyone and still has living proof of the betrayal to raise... nothing retribution, no karma, no apology....it means that cheating is allowed and the person is free of any responsibility.

[Owlish · Rating 1 out of 5]

I am at loss for words, can not really describe how i feel.

Spoiler alert:


At the end I really waited Ever to thank Eden for taking care of Cade while she was in coma and being a surrogate mother for her!

If Cade would have pushed Eden as much as he did to Ever in this book, we totally be discussing different topics.

And finally Eden has really short memory about her affair with Cade because it was some confused story that she told Carter. How can someone tells her sister's husband that she loves him and bears his child but fall in love with another guy during the pregnancy and her so called love for Cade just disappears? Total mystery.

With all the talk about feelings, cryings etc. ; the characters are not emotionally developed. They are immature and selfish, change their mind on a whim. Forgiveness is not that cheap if you really love someone and respect yourself.

I love Falling series, but really hated this one.

[Smitten's Book Blog · Rating 5 out of 5]

WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BOOK #1 & #2!

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Wow! Oh my God. What a trilogy! This one will stay in my heart and my mind for a long, long time!

5+ STARS FOR EVER, CADEN, EDEN & CARTER!!

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So, I seem to be dishing out 5+ stars like milk and cookies at the moment. I'm so hesitant to do it because I feel like if I give out too many, it dilutes the magnitude of them. But seriously, if I give something more than five stars, it means that is epic!!!

"I love you. No matter what. Forever and Always."

My job is to find books that you guys are going to love. If I could make sure that every single book I ever read was 5 stars and above, I would! I want to love every book I read. And I want to tell you lovely lot about books that you're going to love, too. Therefore, every book I read is carefully chosen. I don't commit to reviewing books that I think won't appeal to both me and you. And if I start something and I don't think it's going to be three and a half stars, at the very minimum, I usually put it back down again. I have no interest in reading books that I don't think I'll enjoy, just so that I can add a few two or three star reviews to my blog.

So, when Jasinda Wilder offers me an ARC, I get giddy!!! This woman is my hero! Every book of hers that I've ever read, I've adored. She always makes me cry, the bitch, but she also always makes me swoon and she always makes my heart melt. Without fail. I think this lady has had more 5+ star reads from me than any other author.



Okay, now this series is hard! The first two books I've only given 4.5 stars. And that's because they were so emotionally tough. And without the happy ending of this book, I just couldn't give them any higher. I felt like my heart had been torn from my chest. I was so confused, so conflicted and so frustrated. But when it's all wrapped up in a happy ending, it was absolutely perfect!!!

"We had forever, and it was taken from us. Let's save our forever, Cade. Please. Let's take it back."

This book is ah.ma.zing! I couldn't put it down. I had to know what happened to these characters!! I couldn't fathom how this was all going to turn out okay.

I felt as if each kiss was tainting her with the venom of my guilt. As if she could taste the truth on my lips.

In this book, we don't only get the continuation of Caden and Ever's story. We also get Eden's story. At the end of After Forever we got a short teaser of Carter's POV. Well, as you've probably already guessed, Carter is part of Eden's story. I usually don't like books where I have to focus on more than one couple. Hey, look, it doesn't take much to blow my little mind, lol, so I like to be able to focus wholly on one pair. However, Jasinda wrote this so well that it didn't matter. I was as eager to read Eden and Carter's story as I was to read Caden and Ever's. And that is something, considering how I felt about Eden after the last book!

"If I'm walking into heartbreak, that's my own choice, Eden."

So many people have said to me 'I don't want Eden to get her HEA', 'Eden doesn't deserve a happy ending' or 'I don't know if I can forgive Caden.' Well, I felt exactly the same! I was so scared that things were too far gone for Caden and Eden for me to want things to turn out good for them. I was so angry with them both!! But I trusted Jasinda and she'd promised me the HEA I so needed, and trust me when I say she did not let me down. Not at all!!

I never understood how much I loved you. I didn't. I know how we talked about our love, how it was this thing that was EVERYTHING to us? I was everything to me, Ever, every last goddamned motherfucking thing, and it's gone. You're gone. And I needed it even more than I knew then, when I had you.

This is so well done!!! The emotion, the guilt, the forgiveness, the choices they make. It's just perfect and it makes it impossible to judge these characters for the paths they chose, the future they are choosing. It makes everything make as much sense as it ever could without going through something so traumatic yourself. I do think some of you will be angry that Eden gets her happy ending, but I hope you can look past that and, if not forgive, at least try to understand everything that happened.

"You can't... you simply cannot fathom the pain. How much I missed you. How much I needed you, and you weren't there. But you were, yet I couldn't have you."

Caden is a broken man. It is so painfully tragic, to read about how withdrawn and guilt-ridden he is. Watching him descend on a dark, downward spiral. And about how Ever desperately tries to bring back the man she knew before the accident. And the unspoken acknowledgement that there is a secret between them is just unbearable.

"If I asked, would you tell me?"
"I don't know."
"Do I want to know?"
"No. You don't. ... Fuck, I'm drunk."

Ever is trying to recuperate, yet she is struggling to deal with Caden pulling away from her. I love Ever. She's the biggest victim in this whole saga, yet I feel that she is, in some ways, the strongest of all of them.

"I need you to love me. I need you to tell me it's going to be okay. Lie to me if you have to, and tell me everything will be okay. I'm lost, Cade. And you're the only north I have."

I had never been a fan of Eden. Even from the very first book, I didn't like her. I didn't like her jealous attitude toward Ever, I didn't like her obsession with her weight. I just hadn't warmed to her. In Saving Forever I fell in love with Eden. She was in a state of pure turmoil. She was vulnerable and she had to grow up fast. And, despite everything, I felt sorry for her.

"Things always seem impossible when you're on the wrong side of fear."

And then there's Carter. I loved Carter. Carter is perfect. He is the perfect mix of strong, silent protector and a vulnerability and sadness that make him loveable, human. He is Eden's lifeline and the way their relationship develops and progresses, or doesn't progress as the case may be for a while there, is adorable. He is the perfect gentleman, the perfect friend, her saviour.

"You may be afraid. But the choice to love you is mine. Not yours. You don't get to make that choice for me. You can choose to not let me love you, but you can't tell me what's too much for me to handle. That's for me to decide."

There are parts of this book, toward the end, which damn near broke my heart. It's so sad. I wonder if some people won't agree with some of the decisions made toward the end of the book. But for me, personally, it felt right. It felt horribly sad and excruciatingly painful, but right.

"Accept the guilt, acknowledge your fault. Then, live. Learn from it, and keep going. You don't forget, you don't block it or bury it. You just... live. Don't let guilt define you."

I loved both endings to both love stories. Ever and Caden's. And Eden and Carter's. They both ended in the right way for me. I really hope Jasinda considers a one-shot, maybe a Christmas family get-together, or something, because I feel like these characters might all have a little more to tell us at some point. I hope.



I hope you can all read this and give it the chance it deserves. I know for a lot of people it might be a big ask, and it might touch on subjects that are deal-breakers, but it's so emotional and so beautifully tragic. The stories that have gutted me from the inside, pushed my boundaries as a reader, broken my heart and then restored everything in it's rightful place are the stories that have stayed with me the longest and had a last place in my heart. And that is how I feel, so strongly, about this series.

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Saving Forever Statistics
• Steam Rating (out of 5): ♥♥♥♥
• Ending: Happy ending
• Narrative: Multiple POVs. First person. Past tense.
• Series: Yes
• Reading Order:
- Book #1 - Forever & Always (The Ever Trilogy, #1)
- Book #2 - After Forever (The Ever Trilogy, #2)
- Book #3 - Saving Forever (The Ever Trilogy, #3)
• Can this be read as a standalone? No
• WARNING. This book includes...
Sexual content. A complicated love triangle.
• Writing: Amazing!







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[Rosalie · Rating 1 out of 5]

If I could give 0 stars I would.

Again, major spoilers ahead.

So in the last book, Ever wakes up, Eden is pregnant.

Ok, so if you read my view of the last book, you'd know I hated it. I was sucked (literally) by what Eden and Caden did. So why did I continue ? I wanted to see Cade's attempt at redemption, I wanted to see Ever move on from her cheating sister and cheating HUSBAND.

So the last book sickened me. This book? Was even worse. If I could take back reading these books, I would in a heart beat because I'm left angry, furious and disgusted. I'm sorry to sound horrible, but again, this is tame compared to what I want to say.

What happens here?
Eden, who I personally think is just a skank, gets an HEA with potentially the only person I like in the book. No.... I hated her, she deserves literally nothing.

Cade feels guilty. And I empathised nothing with him. Why? Because if his dear wife hadn't woken up, he would've still been banging her twin sister and enjoying life. He feels guilty and loves his wife (which I don't believe anyways) so he pushes her away. And this is where is gets great.

Ever wants to help HIM through what he's going through.

Ok, but let's be real, I've been waiting for the moment Ever finds out.

WHAT THE F*****|€\$*|]¥€~$]$|$|!|!

Ok so the last book, shit like that happens. In this book. Ever's reaction would NEVER BE REALISTIC. She drives for a couple of days, comes to Eden's house and BAM everything is forgiven.

Are you kidding me ?!? This guy has been inside your sister kissing her doing all sorts of stuff to her while being MARRIED to you. And there was NO GROVELING. I'm talking about NONE. And she forgives her sister 100% as well. Took a week to forgive 6 months worth or betrayal.

I hated that! Where the hell is karma ?! What they did is something I consider the LOWEST of the LOW for people to do. As in scum people to do! And I wanted Ever to end up with someone else. Hell! I was even able to compromise and was willing to read Cade's redemption and grovel to Ever.

But even after that, it's Ever who fights for Cade!!!!!

The last book was disgusting but stuff like that happens. No one would ever be so okay with what Cade and Eden did, the way Ever was.

I wish I never read these books.

How does Ever live knowing her brother has been intimate with her sister?
How can Ever live knowing her husband is attracted to her sister? Just because Ever's back doesn't mean the attraction is gone.
Why does Ever never ask her husband if he is still attracted / ever had feelings for Eden? I wanted to know considering in the last book there was definite feelings involved.

All I'm saying is, I don't even think Cade learnt his lesson. If Ever were ever to go in a coma again (not like it'll happen) I think he'll turn to Eden.

OH and hahahhahahaha the best part. Eden gets a HEA with an amazing guy and decided she doesn't have a connection to her child. Wtf ?!?! Is she heartless ?! So she casually hands it over to Eden and Cade.

So now, you raise the baby which was created while your husband was continually cheating on you with your twin sister :)

This story isn't about love. this story is about a stupid girl, who got the short end of the stick by loving a guy who never truly loved her.

[Shiroumaru · Rating 1 out of 5]

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I don't know how to review this book. I give it 1 Star because Ever character. I admit that I skipped Eden's POV. I just read Ever, Caden and Carter.
Ever is a really great person. She's really strong. She tried hard to make her body 'free' after her coma. She really love Caden and she want to get better for him. And Caden, he met Ever with guilt all over his face every day since she woke up. And Ever know that something bothering him. It's not until 7 months later when she finally know Eden's place. So, she and Caden drove to met Eden and they met Eden and Carter and the baby girl. When Ever saw the baby, she's surprised and Caden already shaken because he can connect the dot's why Eden's disappeared. And all hell break loose... When Ever saw the baby, she saw her husband's face in her and know that the baby belongs to Caden and Eden. She's horrified by the truth and take Eden's car for 8 days and came back to Caden and say that she forgave him because she need him in her life. But Caden didn't really trust her forgiveness.
When they go to Eden's, Caden talk to Carter and (I really love Carter in this scene) he make Caden understand Ever's position and her courage to forgive him.
Meanwhile Eden not really get the maternal instinct and to make the story short, she felt that her baby belongs to Caden and Ever so she suggested adoption. The book closed with Cadence (the baby girl), Caden and Ever in their vow's renewal.

OK, so here's my thought. I don't really like how Ever only need 8 days to decide that she forgive him. It makes any sense if after 8 days she's still resent her husband but she totally forgave him. Because of this too, I don't know what effort Caden's did to make her trust him again. I think Ever grief after she feel Caden's 'distance' after her coma, her inability to control her body, when she discovered about her pregnancy lost, when she found out Caden's affair, when she asked about how the affair happen, and so on and so on, didn't described well. (At least for me) This book's message is: Although you disappointed me, I still love you. (From Priscilla Glenn's back to You) But this book makes me think about Caden's position too. What if Someone I love in coma, would I did what Caden's did too? For Me, NO. Because I would think everyday that if my love is alive today, then I would make him know that I love him, because today he's still alive for me and I don't know if tomorrow he's gonna alive like today. I wouldn't waste my time for thinking about 'comforter'. Definitely not by sleeping with his brother too. But once again, that's just my opinion. Some will have other opinions too. I'm sorry if I'm bad with words. ^ ^

[Sharon DeNofa · Rating 1 out of 5]

How can you love book 1 so so much and hate books 2 and 3? Her sister is a jealous b*tch and Cade didn't love her enough if he that. He is not any better than Billy/Will. Book 2 and 3 took away my love for book one. Was a complete waste of my time reading this serious.

[Leo (Queen of the Rants and Spoilers)]

Now I remember reading this shit. Wow I really didn't gave a shit what I read. Wtf was wrong with me!

[Jess · Rating 3 out of 5]

The ending and actions weren't realistic to me so while I was engrossed in the story those actions took me out of the story and to just someone who was reading a story not living it with the characters anymore.

Yes I figured the story would go in the direction it did, but I wanted some revenge for the wronged person in this story but I didn't get that I got a very unrealistic ending and as much as it sucked... again the 3 stars were because I couldn't put the book down I had to know what happened it made me feel even though I hated the feelings and just wanted to be done with this series it still made me feel so many different and strong emotions. The writing was just as amazing as book 1 & 2

To be honest I skimmed through Eden and Carter's chapters. I have no interest in Eden's story at all. So I can't rate on that part of the story only Cade and Ever's chapters and where they entwined with Eden's.

I now understand why this series is so talked about, it's not that it's popular, it's that it's beyond the normal painful journey, and something that 99% of the population would deem unforgivable.

I believe had the sex scene's between Eden and Cade not been so descriptive or not had so much sex together in book 2 I may have been able to forgive Cade and Eden and I MIGHT have been able to kind of believe this ending.

[Brandi {BusyBwith3} · Rating 3 out of 5]

I DON'T KNOW...

Jasinda Wilder, you had us at book one, floored us at book two, and screwed us in book three! Well done,we built it up and sat on pins and needles waiting! You have our cash and you got to spin the story how you chose and there is nothing we can do about it! Well played!!!

That sounded a bit angry, I'm not! Frustrated yes! I have just never experienced the ending of a book with just, feeling, well blah, again I don't know? I could go on and on but don't want to. I could have gone two stars at times and at other points four? So I went with three right down the middle???

The book tried to explain what tragedy does, it changes, breaks, destroys, and then shoves us back together, sometimes! The book tried to explain how people will deal with that and how to forgive?

I will say it succeeded on that level and I will say it spent a fair amount of time trying to redeem or forgive Eden and Caden, I think?
I can appreciate Caden's suffering on many different levels BUT... I WILL NEVER LIKE EDEN! And she doesn't deserve Carter not even close!!!

I spent a good portion of this book feeling like a cave woman, grunting and making noises and running my hands threw my hair! I had to put it down several times and come back! I didn't expect a unicorn crapping rainbows but I just thought the story could have gone a few different ways!

I just can't relate to an emotional cripple who operates from jealousy and selfishness! The only time I liked Eden was when she described herself,
"stupid whore" YEP, Eden I agree! Don't even get me started on how weak Ever was! Could she place her head up her a** any farther and begging for sex??? Uggghh!

This review is far to long, I just had to vent!
So to fans of the first two, I say read it cause let's be honest you need to know, right?
To everyone else you will fall in love with book one and then the unicorn will laugh in your face while it takes a large very real and smelly dump on your Kindle

[Elaine · Rating 1 out of 5]

Fuck, I'm not even going to lie. I didn't read the book. Just little tiny pieces of it and that was fucking enough.

This is not a stand-alone. You HAVE to read the first one Forever & Always and the second one After Forever.

This is why I didn't even read it: Eden get's pregnant, and that was enough for me to not read the fucking third book. Through the little pieces of the book that I read it was just saying that basically Eden finds a guy and he's perfect, doesn't judge her for being a backstabbing fucking little shit. I don't know the rest but what I do know is that Caden nor Eden tell Ever the truth about being together. Ever finds out when Eden brings Caden's child, a girl, and looks so much like him. Ever figures it out and runs. She comes back after a week and forgives every fucking one.
Eden talks to both, Caden and Ever, and says that her daughter must be theirs and practically gives her to them like she's a fucking gift. At the end I don't even know what the fuck happens with the baby. All I know is that Ever has to live with the pain that her husband cheated on her while she was in a fucking coma with her twin sister. Eden stays with Carter, the perfect guy who doesn't judge her and loves her. And Caden, well Caden can suck my fucking ass... Although... Nope. Don't want that fucking cheating mouth over me.

So yeah, you see how fucked up that is?

Read at your own risk.

[Norma · Rating 2 out of 5]

I give this 2 stars, I was disappointed in this book but come on one week to forgive two people who committed the ultimate betrayal, even in the real world I think it would take a little longer.
Eden and Carter should have had there own book to tell there story, I didn't want to read about Eden I found myself skipping the Eden chapters. I wanted to read about Ever and Caden.
Ever finding out of the truth was long drawn out over nine months while Eden got her story out so the rest was rushed and she wanted to give them a happy ending which is nice but in real world it just might be a no go.
We got repeats of the letters from book one and two filling up the pages, the story went over what happened between Eden and Caden in book two although Edens memory was off when she retold it back to Carter we needn't have bothered reading the second book really. This book was a wasted opportunity to tell a longer more readable ending, maybe Ever could have gone her own way for a while we could have got to see haw she coped being independent of her sister and Caden, see haw Caden coped being a single father haw he worked to get Ever back, a rushed ending this story could have gone a little farther.
I don't think I will be reading any more of this author as when this Trilogy started I thought the subject matter was brave and gritty it seemed she got a bit scared of her own characters and there story the last book could have been so much more.

[Kei · Rating 1 out of 5]

I just knew it would turn out like this and it feels like someone published the wrong book.

There is this thing called karma and while not everything in life is about payback and making the slutty/ungrateful/barely able to call her human heroine face the consequences of her actions may not be what the author thing is right for the series, it still doesn't mean that a person can actually get away with everything. Not like that. Not even in books. I refuse to believe that. She didn't want a baby the other one did all is happy. JUST NO.

The second book of the series was a turning point for the series, but I somehow understood how two people can be bonded by grief - even if they bonded beyond separation, anyway - but this book made me hate them. All of them, Ever, Eden, Caden, all of them. Stupid, cheating, lying shallow and selfish characters with no redeeming qualities to the end. They simply can't be those two that I loved in book 1.

[Heather · Rating 1 out of 5]

**SPOILERS*
Bleach my eyes out now. This is like a bad Jerry Springer episode except Walt Disney has taken it on and reworked it so it can achieve the 5* OMG, I loved it, it was so emotional, Im glad they got their HEA remarks.

I have never felt compelled to 1* a book/series until now, but this was just plain nasty. This review does not reflect on any of the authors previous work.

I'm not one of those readers that will accept anything given to us by the author in order to see the characters walk off hand in hand with rainbows blowing out of their backend.
This was one book where I wanted the "heroine" to stick 2 fingers in the air and to say to hell with a conventional HEA and just get me the hell out of here.

This review will feature Spoilers in order to justify my rating so consider yourself warned.

**spoilers**

**spoilers**

Book 1 sees Ever and Cade fall in love.
Book 2 sees Ever in a coma and Cade and Evers twin sister Eden screwing each other Seven Ways till Sunday. The sexathon takes place over Six months, in the marital home and bed with a serious lack of contraception. Can you say Bun in the Oven ????

I was intrigued as to how the author was going to resolve this issue after all the ultimate betrayal was performed and not once but numerous times.
Both characters are aware of what they are doing whilst the person that they allegedly loved was now infertile, after loosing a child and in a coma.

There was a serious lack or in fact no remorse, admission of guilt or responsibility for their actions, there is a giant mound in the carpet where everything has been swept under in order to give the easily pleased readers a HEA.
Eden the Slack twin sister does a runner and disappears. She meets a wonderful man and gives a very laughable and slightly distorted account of what happens. (Remember we read the gory details in book 2)

Meanwhile Cade is now living in a constant state of woe as he is worried that Ever will find out he and Eden performed the Horizontal Tango whilst she was in a Coma.
Ever who is either a saint or just plain stupid (I'm taking a punt for stupid) feels guilty and wants to help him.
Any how, Ever and Cade find Eden and the now cooked bun in the oven and the bells start to ring and Ever discovers what happens. Roll up, Roll up, All form a queue and let's hear the remorse, begging, admission of guilt for their unnaceptable behaviour. Zero, Nada, zilch. Both characters refuse to acknowledge it.
So Ever disappears for 8 days, returns and all is well with the world. After 8 days I'd be lucky if I'd cleaned my teeth. Eden who seems to get away Scott free decides that she doesn't want to be a mother to the result of her betrayal and inability to keep her legs shut. So Eden becomes the Patron Saint of Surrogacy and gives away her child to Ever and the cheating Scumbag leaving Eden to live in a state of perpetual bliss with her new man. Wrap the baby up in as many bows as you want and gift package it as you want. Eden is a spoilt and selfish woman who will not accept or be responsible for the consequences of her actions.

Ever adopts the product of the affair, renews her vows with Cade and they all walk off into the Sunset.

I think there is supposed to be some moral message crap gained out of this story but I be damned if I buy it.

If my soulmate was in a coma I'd be making sure that every day they were still there I'd make sure they new how much I loved them. Not taking their twin back to the marital bed !!
If Cade was to have picked up a woman in a bar or a prostitue in his despair I could buy it. Even Cade in his grief fantasing that Eden was his beloved Ever I could buy it, but he knew damn well it wasn't.

I wish we could have seen Ever have a backbone and disappear longer than 8 days, to go find herself. Cade being a man and admitting the truth and accept that he cheated.
I rename this book Feel sorry Forever.

In this genre of NA there has become the tendency to glamorize Cheating and for it to become acceptable.

There are good books by this author out there, sadly this is not one of them.

[Ang C · Rating 1 out of 5]

Warning - Rant and spoilers

Simply terrible

I rarely one star any read. But to sum this trilogy up -

"Forever and Always" was a sweet love story. Cade and Ever were a destined-to-be adorable couple. I loved their letters, and my heart ached for all of Cade's pain. I should have stopped and NEVER continued with this series.

Cade lost me in "After Forever". His character morphed into one of the biggest scumbags I've ever read about, and that says a lot. The sweet guy disappeared and a pathetic, weak, hypocritical asshole took his place. He and his bitch (and that is the nicest word I could use to describe her) sister-in-law Eden, were utterly despicable. There are no words to describe how revolting their actions were. He loves is wife Ever so dearly, yet screwed her twin....repeatedly....um, NO douche bag, that's not what a guy in love does.

Since I was totally disgusted - but forever the optimist, I gave "Saving Forever" the benefit of the doubt, because I love a good redemption story. Again, disgusted which each character. DNF at 60% Such a shame that what started out as a good love story turned into a terrible train wreck.

[Vilma · Rating 5 out of 5]

The perfect conclusion to a heart wrenching series. Deeply moving, profound and beautifully written, this has been a wholly unforgettable series.

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“Sometimes, all you can do is push through. Make mistakes and accept them. You can’t always make the right decision. Sometimes there isn’t one. Sometimes there’s just everything getting all fucked up, and the only thing you can do is go through it and pick up the pieces on the other side. Forgiveness is a choice, and so is love.”

Every now and then, you come across a story with the power to shatter you with its honesty, it’s realness … even it’s ugliness. The power to consume you with the complexity of its characters, the depth of the turmoil they feel and the impossible situation they find themselves in. This is that book … this series. In addition, this incredible story is delivered beautifully, the writing piercing, poetic and poignant. I felt my way through this entire series and this final installment finally brought all the pieces together, the pieces of the lives of these four people, the pieces of their hearts that had been splintered by the force of tragedy. The story of Caden, Ever, Eden and Carter underscored the message that sometimes life falls way short of a fairy tale. Sometimes, fate backs you up against a corner. And sometimes amidst the messiness of life and the ugliness of it all, we make the wrong choices. Choices that will forever mark the remainder of our lives. But choices, that sometimes, save us in the end.

“… right now, I need you. I need you to love me. I need you to tell me it’s going to be okay. Lie to me, if you have to, and tell me everything will be okay. I’m lost, Cade. And you’re the only north I have.”

From the moment that Ever wakes up, she’s lost. A shell of whom she was. She’s adrift in a sea of uncertainty. She doesn’t know how she’ll recover, if she’ll recover parts of whom she was before … physical and emotional. Eden left and Cade is not wholly present. He seems to be adrift himself, consumed by pain he’s unwilling to share. Ever is desperate for some normalcy and she needs her one true love to be the person he was before. She needs him to love her, heart and soul, and not treat her as a fragile piece of glass that isn’t able to share the weight of his mysterious burden. In a time where she needs solid ground, everything wavers and Caden drifts further and further away with each passing day.

“Without Cade as my center, I was adrift, castaway. I couldn’t find the earath beneath me, couldn’t find the sky. Couldn’t find up, or down. I could only slip from one day to the next…. It was all empty. I was empty.”

Cade is consumed by his guilt. The feeling of being pounded by it was palpable. Every time I read a Caden chapter, I felt as if I couldn’t breathe, asphyxiated by regret and culpability. My heart truly broke for him and I reiterate what I’ve said before, he is one of the most tragic characters of which I’ve ever read. He’s had to go through so much in life, has endured so much loss. His “entire life had been nothing but pain.” The love he feels for Ever is true – has always been true – but the affection he’s able to show has been weakened by remorse. It’s as if every touch is tainted by the guilt of what transpired with Eden. And now, with the added guilt of not being the person Ever needs him to be, Cade crumbled before our eyes.

“I’m sorry… for being broken when you need me to be whole.”

In the meanwhile, while Cade struggled with the shame, Eden escaped it. She couldn’t parade the fruits of their indiscretion in front of Ever. She couldn’t hurt her any longer. She too is lost. For so long she’s lived in her sister’s shadow and now she’s all alone, trying to figure out who she is, trying not to be defined by the life that grows inside of her. Her character growth in this final book is striking. She needed to want to be happy. She needed to feel worthy of it by the end.

“I hadn’t loved Cade. Almost, though. I’d almost fallen in love with him. I’d seen it happening, felt my heart curling outward and trying to latch onto him. But he didn’t love me and never could and never would, even if Ever hadn’t woken up, and anything we’d ever have would’ve been established on all the wrong foundations, and I refused to let that happen. I wanted better for myself.”

Eden finds herself face-to-face with a beautiful stranger that doesn’t say a single word, but that somehow with a look or a touch already begins to help Eden. Carter has also experienced unspeakable tragedy (literally in his case), but there’s something haunting and beautiful about the pain and potential he sees in Eden’s eyes. In my opinion, Carter is the change agent in this impossible situation. He’s the catalyst that would change it all and I loved him instantly. As Cade and Ever were trying to save their forever, Carter and Even were inadvertently saving each other too.

“I wondered how long I could keep pretending to myself that I didn’t have feelings for Eden that went past friendship, and how long Eden could pretend the same thing about me.”

The story, told in the point-of-views of our four tortured protagonists, takes two diverging paths that converge near the end. Eden and Carter begin to know each other, begin to share the painful experiences of their lives very gradually, and their story instilled hope for me. Hope that some goodness will come for some of these characters. Cade and Ever’s story felt so intense and heavy and tragic and I just didn’t know how they would be able to save what they had. The chasm that had formed between them had continue to widen by the force of guilt, betrayal, disappointment and uncertainty. Was their relationship irrevocably torn apart, or could time and effort fuse it back together? I felt like Ever also did a lot of growing up, forced by circumstance perhaps, but it’s her strength that insists on getting their relationship on the right track. It’s her perseverance that demands Caden to wake up and react and love her as she knows he does.

“We had forever, and it was taken from us… Let’s save our forever, Cade. Please. Let’s take it back.”

The story comes to heart-stopping climax that literally had me breathless. I feared how it all would culminate after everything everyone had already been through. But I have to say Jasinda Wilder executed this beautifully. It was raw. Real. Painful. Complicated. But in the end, I thought, perfect. All the pieces settled into place, as they should be, in a way that perhaps was not possible should the mess not have taken place at all. Because sometimes with the ugliness of life comes unexpected beauty.

This has been Jasinda’s best work in my opinion. I know many have been scared to read this series due to the emotional intensity, and some have even shunned it due to the unexpected twists in book 2, but I propose that if you are a fan of reading a book that will evoke emotion – whether it be good or bad – especially one that mimics the compelling reality of life, is a book successful with its intent and made powerful by it’s raw and gritty nature. I urge you to give this series a chance and immerse yourself in the untraditionally beautiful and moving story of these four tortured souls that found an unconventional way to save their forever.


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[Angie · Rating 5 out of 5]

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This book that ends trilogy, like all of the other Jasinda Wilder books I've read, is a roller coaster of emotions and tremendously sexy. I admit I was scared to finish reading the story of these characters after the maceration she performed on my heart in the first two books, but I grabbed my Big Girl Panties, and dove in. Holy shitballs, this book—and trilogy—is amazing. Without a doubt, I highly recommend it to anyone strong enough to handle broken hearts, depressing stories, twists, turns, and some of the best sex scenes ever written. The Ever Trilogy is meant to be read as a whole, and the three books are best read back-to-back. Be strong, grab your tissues and extra batteries, and get these books!

SIDE NOTE: I don't like feeding trolls or addressing drama straight-on, but the "controversy" (I use quotes because the issues people are having with this series are borderline insanity) over the subject matter in this trilogy has made me ragey. This story is intensely emotional. Not only is it based on real life stories, it is deeply rooted in reality. Just because we don't agree with the choices a character makes doesn't mean the entire book, series, or author are worthy of being boycotted. And yes, there are some pitchforks being carried by readers who have strong public opinions on how Jasinda should have written this story. But they are not worthy of being the author of this trilogy—she is.

[Tab · Rating 1 out of 5]

Do these authors really think we cheer for women to be doormats? Or for cheating pieces of shit (especially sisters) to be rewarded for being cheating pieces of shit? Based on this trilogy some do apparently. I don't want too much real life in my books but I want some. If I knew these people in real life they would disgust me. And they disgust me here. Fuck off with your all is forgiven bullshit let's sweep this under the rug. There is something in the real world called consequences. Even kids as young as 10 understand this concept. Too bad some adult authors don't. It isn't romantic - its abusive to treat someone this way. I expect it from my psycho heroes, not the so called good guys and sister of the injured party. It's a turn off.