Forever Love

Now & Forever #3

by Melissa Johns

Emily and Eric tried to tolerate everything that was thrown at them but they couldn’t survive it. They both made mistakes that lead their paths to take different directions. Emily found comfort in the arms of her friend, Alex. He was what she needed and he was trying to help her achieve her dreams of being an artist.

Eric had been drafted into the pros and was moving to Denver without his family. He was struggling to find his way and when opportunity presented itself, he had to take it.

But when tragedy hit, Emily was faced with a decision that she needed to make and she knew that there could be consequences.
Will Emily and Eric find their way back to each other or will Alex steal her heart for good?

Forever Love is the conclusion to Eric and Emily’s story in the Now & Forever Series.

Don’t miss First Love (#1), Everlasting Love (#2) and take the journey through their love story.

Genres: Romance, Sports, New Adult, College, Contemporary, Second Chance, Ebooks

323 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 3, 2012

Reviews

[Dinjolina · Rating 1 out of 5]

Your high school sweetheart, the love of your life, and the father of your child…cheated on you.
Repeatedly. Then lied about it. Also repeatedly.
And while he was all contrite and sorry about you braking up with him over this, he was actually starting a relationship with the other woman.
While he was kissing you, schmoozing up to you, begging for you to take him back…he was already with somebody else.

You heart is broken. You are down, lost, obliterated by the breach of trust, by the hurt.
But…there is this one man. He picks you up, he mends your wounds.
He is gentle, loving, trustworthy and treats you like a princess.
He loves your child like she was his own and wants a future with you.
His patience, care and devotion make you fall in love again. With him.
All is good in the world.

That is, until your cheating scumbag of an ex decides his new girlfriend does not understand him and his itty bitty feelings. Until he slitters back in to your life, and dares to demand your affection once more --> Even thou he knows you are happy, and have somebody new, somebody who treats your right. Unlike him.
So, without any consideration to your feelings, or for the fact that his child is happy with this new relationship of yours, he barges on and pressures you day in, day out.

In the end you…
…tell him to fuck off?
…move to another country and slap him with a restraining order?
…kill him and let your new lover bury his sorry ass?

No?
Then what?
Oh. You get back together with him. Because, gosh, he was your high school sweety and we all know that you should stick to those even if it kills you.

Well, dear lady, let me diagnose you:
You are an idiot.
Go! Get cheated on some more! You know, every time you get in to a crisis, or he meets up with some friends that cheer him on, or is just bored in another town. Your life is going to be so grand, you dishrag, you!

Final verdict?
This book is a feminist’s nightmare, disguised as a romance novel.
Also, it was written pretty badly. The syntax and text development was just…ugh.
Oh and let us not forget to ask --> what is up with the cover? I know the heroine is supposed to be an artist, but that just looks like somebody is brandishing a hotdog in front of a photograph.

[Cc · Rating 3 out of 5]

If it had been well written and just not so over the top I would have loved it. My favorite trope. But, alas.......no.

I read this a while ago, but after going through someones cheaters shelves (goldmines for those of us who love cheating romances. lol. The very definition of dichotomy.) I looked it up thinking I had hit the mother lode. Win some, lose some.

The ratings goin up bc the author had the chutzpah to write it and I want to support.

[Gi's Spot Reviews]

Self note:

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[Tia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really can't believe that Emily got back with Eric after he cheated on her. I don't want to say she was wrong because I have no idea from reading the novel if her state of mind was right. For me, that isn't a choice I could of made. Yes, it was a fairy tale type ending but honestly I found it a bit bias towards Eric even when he cheated on her. People who love you don't do that at all. I did see Eric grow up in the novel but I still saw him as a cheating butthole.

[Katyn Cooper · Rating 3 out of 5]

I can only say this: DID THAT JUST HAPPEN?!?!?!?! Oh My Gosh!!! Why would she make Eric the BAD BAD BAD GUY HERE?????? Coz girls like bad guys??? but not that way!!! Seriously?? I do agree with this line:

"If we didn’t
have a child, I would be gone without a
second thought." -Emily (Everlasting Love)

I'm so sad for cute little Emma. Really. It's so sad that her Daddy is a cheating, lying, bastard :(((((

[Maya]

Self note:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Imperviouspuff · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh no she didn't!

This series was the root of my migraine for the past two days. It was a quick read. Also, judging from the superfluity of grammatical and spelling errors that had me chewing the inside of my mouth each time I encountered them, it was quickly 'edited' too. I chose to hold my review until the end of the series because I simply wanted to know if Emily would woman up and quit victimizing herself.

I don't understand how her cheating, sack of sh it, douchebag of a high school sweetheart was treated as if he was some wounded warrior, who deserved pity and people empathized more with him more than they did with Emily, who was cheated on! Seriously? Let's all praise the two-timing football-hero-wannabe for going to Denver and becoming an overpaid athlete while we censure the awful Emily for not choosing him over Alex, who never once cheated on her and whose jealousy was completely justified. All Emily did was study through college, raise her daughter and deal with life's woes the best she could. No, that's not enough. She's horrendous! Because she chose a decent man over her that lying bastard!

I don't understand how she can love Alex then all of a sudden have an epiphany that she can no longer live in this cruel, cold world without being in the arms of her ex-boyfriend, who slept with a party hooker twice and blamed her for not understanding WHY he did it. He was under pressure! D: Awwww poor guy. Emily! It's your fault for not understanding me. I'm going to become a famous, overpaid football star someday so I need to stick my sausage in the nearest snatch as soon as possible. How can you not understand that? Why can't you see that despite sticking my schnitzel in that snatch named Nicole, I still love you! You're my life, Gorgeous!

Ugh, please. Emily, if you're dumb enough to choose him... then you both deserve each other. I hope Emma doesn't grow up to be anything like you or your wonderfully faithful husband. *barf*

[J · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series was a good fast read!!!
I'm happy that Emily andEric found a way back to each other. I guess true love always wins but I am kind of disappointed that she left Alex. He was an incredible person who loved Emily for who she truly was, supported her throughout her breakup with Eric and helped her follow her dreams.
What I loved about this story was the friendship between Sam and Emily they were high school buddies and turned out to become amazing BFFs.
I also loved how incredible Emily was, she was a multitask amazing woman we officially followed her dreams after putting them on hold to raise her adorable daughter and for Eric to fulfill his dreams first to support his family.
They went through ups and downs and grew to become friends and at the end new that they could not live without each other.

[Sharon Crisostomo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hmm... I liked this book,, but didn't love it... Only cuz I wanted Emily with Alex! He treasured her while Eric was immature...sure he changed ...after the fact that he realized he was losing his family, but that's what you get when u eff up again and again... Sigh... All in all... The ending of this series was ok. I'm glad that everyone found their own happiness...

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book 3 was definetly better than the 2nd, but I can't help feeling sorry for Alex. I know it sounds wicked, but I wish he would have cheated with Sue so I could hate him instead of feel his heart break:(

[Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am glad things turned out the way they did. I think Emily and Eric both needed to grow up and learn to tackle things more maturely, especially for Emma's sake. That happened in this book and Eric seemed to come down from his craziness of college football.

Alex was a good boyfriend, supportive and willing to do anything for Emily to make her happy.

I don't want to give away who Emily winds up with, but I feel like things ended up exactly as they should have. Hopefully the one who wasn't chosen will get his HEA.

[Nerissa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Badly written. Extremely badly. Wooden conversations. Emotions are not felt. Immature characters - as in, not developed well and lacking emotion and childish reactions.

WOrst of all is it needs more editing and proof reading more than any book i've ever read. Normally I can over look it, but this was BAD.

[Ana Laura]

What surprises me is that such garbage was written in this century! This is sick!

[Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ugh. She should have ended up with Alex. Buuuuuut no, she had to end up with the cheating douche. 🤮

[Natalie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was by far my favorite of the three books. This book had a more mature theme and the book was definitely the best of the three. I would rate it higher but again, this book had so many spelling errors, word errors and extra words that it made it hard to flow properly. Sometimes the story was being told by Emily then it would change to a different character and wasn't always clear. The story was still good, I hope that it is reedited at some point. The book starts out in the future and then back tracks on how they arrived there. It was a good way to get to the end of the story keeping you on the edge of your seat. You think it is going in one direction and then it shifts into another direction. I struggled several times trying to decide if I was on team Eric or team Alex. I was on both teams at different times but for some reason I always had Eric as a favorite although Alex sounded dreamy. I loved how they both loved their little girl and she was never used as a pawn to hurt each other. I also loved how each of the men tried to capture the love of Emily. The supporting cast was also very interesting. A pretty good series. The writing got better with each book. I read all three books in less than 10 hours. Easy reading. As this writer grows I would expect her stories to get more in depth in content.

[StScho · Rating 3 out of 5]

Predictable conclusion to a series. However, if you have lasted this long to read the first and second, you might as well read the third just to round out the story.

The whole series felt like a soap opera for me. Slightly entertaining but not too inspiring. But then again, I read the whole thing so...that in itself says something about the books.

P.S. I thought that Emily was really selfish in this one. Which she does have the right to be due to what she had to sacrifice along the way. Unfortunately, she hurt the wrong person who did not deserve it.

[Cassie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good book

I love the way the book started how Eric and Emily are together and I love that Emily tried to stay out of Eric's life but couldn't cause of Emma and she still loved him. Alex was an amazing person to Emily and he was very understanding to her when she wanted to put her family back together. I love the wedding idea the cake I could just imagine it and how it was, something to represent both Eric and Emily. I have read all but the last one that is the next book I read. I love this series.

[Amy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Less errors than the last book, but still too many to forgive. Character voice flipped around again, and I didn't connect with the characters as the author obviously wanted. I was not engaged, but read it because I wanted to see how the series concludes, and it ended just as I predicted, everything tied off with a bow (not believable at all). It's a shame because this series had potential.

[Dana · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this series, I was very drawn to the drama of their relationship. I thought the author was filled with good ideas, but there was some grammar/punctuation issues. The story also moved a little fast, with the main character flip flopping between loving two different men. It was very intriguing and I am happy with the ending, but it just seemed to come too fast.

[Warpedmind · Rating 4 out of 5]

Usually the 3rd book in a series, in my opinion are not very good (just saying). But this book was pretty good. Not great. But good. You really wanted to know who Emily will chose. Will it be Alex who adores her and wants to see her achieve her dreams. Or will it be Eric her first love that she had all her ups and downs with?

[Koko · Rating 4 out of 5]

I felt bad for Alex but in the end Emily totally was meant to be with Alex. They started young and yeah he made mistakes but he grew up. As much as I loved Alex and Emily. I'm glad to see she ended up with eric and started their family together. Overall it was a great trilogy and I was glad to read their story.

[Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great seriies

I usually don't read books about teenagers but when I read the first book I couldn't put it down. There were times I wanted to shake some sense into both characters. Emily is a strong young woman that has a good heart because I wouldn't of forgiven Eric for what he did.

[Caroline · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book and the series!!!!! It was great. Usually I am a VERY SLOW reader. It usually takes me A MONTH to read ONE BOOK. This book took me 2 DAYS! 2 DAYS!!!! I love this series. I totally recommend it to anyone who is a sucker for love and or chick flicks!!!!!!!

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

It wasn't as good as her other two but it had to end. I really didn't like how this one read - it was just wired and choppy. I still enjoy this author. And it gave you the fairy tale ending. All in all I liked the series.

[Hayley Cunningham · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think that books which form part of a series can be equally enthralling and frustrating. You become engaged but then sit on a cliff waiting for the next instalment. I though the books were good and confess was hanging out for the last book and was very pleased with the ultimate outcome.

[Peggy Roofer · Rating 5 out of 5]

you WILL be screaming and wishing for certain things during this book garunteed. you will feel almost attached to the characters and be telling Emily exactly what to do. an outstanding 3rd book and highly reccomended

[Laura Goff · Rating 5 out of 5]

I actually sat and read all 3 books within 24hrs (fast reader) ;-) and it was a very good storyline I loved the M.C.'s and how you watch them grow and mature over a period of 6 years its a good story I recommend

[Bev · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a sweet ending! Thanks for a great series!

[Nicole Sears · Rating 4 out of 5]

My favorite Book in the trilogy...Really came to love the characters....

[Renee · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the best one of the three. I loved it!!