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When a pregnant girl shows up at a diner alone with very little money, she changes her life and that of the owner.
Then: Sixteen‑year-old Bridget Larson was no stranger to heartbreak. When she found herself pregnant and alone, a flashing neon sign changed her fate. Bridget discovered the love and belonging she craved in strangers at a fifties‑style diner.
Twenty-four-year-old Billy Hall struggled with his own grief. He was wandering Europe in search of his purpose in life when he received a call that would leave him saddled with his family’s diner. It was a noose around his neck until a pregnant teenager stumbled in hungry and scared. Inexplicably drawn to the girl, he had no idea the purpose he traveled the world to find was simply waiting for him to come home.
Now: After spending years repressing their feelings for each other, Bridget and Billy's life is about to change again. The baby who brought them together is leaving for college today. Is she taking their last reason to stay in each other’s lives or giving them a reason to finally admit their love?
Until Now is the first book in the Until contemporary romance series. If you love friends to lover’s romance stories, then join Bridget and Billy as they grow up and grow together in this touching love story.
Until Series:
Until Now (Bridget and Billy)
Until Here novella (Melanie and Preston)
Until Us (Katie and Tyler)
Until You novella (Alexis and Jason)
Then: Sixteen‑year-old Bridget Larson was no stranger to heartbreak. When she found herself pregnant and alone, a flashing neon sign changed her fate. Bridget discovered the love and belonging she craved in strangers at a fifties‑style diner.
Twenty-four-year-old Billy Hall struggled with his own grief. He was wandering Europe in search of his purpose in life when he received a call that would leave him saddled with his family’s diner. It was a noose around his neck until a pregnant teenager stumbled in hungry and scared. Inexplicably drawn to the girl, he had no idea the purpose he traveled the world to find was simply waiting for him to come home.
Now: After spending years repressing their feelings for each other, Bridget and Billy's life is about to change again. The baby who brought them together is leaving for college today. Is she taking their last reason to stay in each other’s lives or giving them a reason to finally admit their love?
Until Now is the first book in the Until contemporary romance series. If you love friends to lover’s romance stories, then join Bridget and Billy as they grow up and grow together in this touching love story.
Until Series:
Until Now (Bridget and Billy)
Until Here novella (Melanie and Preston)
Until Us (Katie and Tyler)
Until You novella (Alexis and Jason)
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First published February 1, 2015
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July 11, 2017
I received this free e-book from Amazon and I am voluntarily writing an honest review. I would have given a higher rating had not the author taken two books and shuffled them like a deck of cards combining them into one book. It would of been less confusing if each had been a dedicated book for that period of time.
June 29, 2017
3 stars
This book was okay. I skimmed a lot of this book, because I didn't want to know as much about their past. I was more interested in knowing about the present. Overall it was a decent book.
This book was okay. I skimmed a lot of this book, because I didn't want to know as much about their past. I was more interested in knowing about the present. Overall it was a decent book.
July 16, 2020
Plot spoilers ahead. Read at your own risk.
I’m just going dive right on in because I have a lot of things I want say, and there are a lot of things I feel especially after that ending.
After all that build up between Billy and Bridget that had been building the entire book, and there was no proper love scene between them. Excuse me. Like no. That wasn’t right especially since there were multiple love scenes in the book with other people in great detail with other people, but not with other people. I didn’t need, nor did I liked seeing those detail love scenes especially multiple times and with multiple people on both sides. That’s not what I want in my romances. It was turn off even before I knew that Billy and Bridget got no love scene, but now I’m more turned off and really pissed because there wasn’t one with Billy and Bridget. What was the freaking point of that? I just made no sense to me of why the didin’t especially since it was building up that moment between the two of them. Then there’s nothing. NO. NO. NO. The other love scenes could have been sacrificed but not the one between Billy and Bridget because that was the most important and meaningful one that should have been shown out of all of them. I just feel very cheated right now and very unsatisfied with the fact that I didn’t get that pay off that I was looking for in the end. It’s almost made me feel what was the point of reading it when I didn’t get what I wanted nor what I was expecting. It just annoyed me on so many levels that I get that scene that I had been waiting for and anticipating for so long.
And on a related note to that, I didn’t care for how much focus was put on the other relationships in this story compared to Billy and Bridget’s. It didn’t overshadow their relationship, but I did think it took too much away from them as their relationship grew and developed over the course of time. I wanted more focus on them, and less on everything else. Granted I get that it was important because certain events lead to certain events that brought them together as well as kept them apart, and there needed to be that history there. I understand that, but again too much were focused not the other romantic relationship and not enough on the two of them. With the other relationships I didn’t need as much detail as I got because I didn’t care. They weren’t the main couple, and I wanted more on the main couple. Were their relationships part of their story? Yes, of course they were, but the main focus I wanted. I could have dealt with a lot more summary or just illusions when dealing with the other relationships. I didn’t need the nitty gritty. I especially didn’t those love scenes in there. I would have been more than satisfied with fade to black scene, instead of actually scenes between them, instead it was Billy and Bridget that got the fade to black, and as from the above paragraph you can tell that just really irked me. I didn’t care about the other relationships. I didn’t want to see them played out of the pages. I didn’t need to be shown details because I wanted to the romance to be between Billy and Bridget not everyone else. I’m so mad.
Another thing that I didn’t care for was the structure of the story. I wish it was done in a more chronically and linear fashion, instead of the present then flashback to the past for every other chapter. In the first chapter, it was revealed that Billy was in love with Bridget and had been for fourteen years so having that knowledge right away kind took away the journey to happen in an organically and natural way. I wanted to have that feeling, but because it switched time periods back and forth so readily it was almost like I knew too much and colored what I was experiencing while in the past chapters if that makes sense. It made it worse then when those other relationships were on page because I knew where his head was for the past fourteen years with his love for Bridget, yet he had these relationships throughout the years because he couldn’t be with her. Not that he shouldn’t, and he wasn’t cheating on Bridget, yet it felt kind of was. So, it tainted it for me in that regard. He was just using woman for his physical needs, but never opened up to them emotionally because he considered himself Bridget’s. Bridget did the same thing too, and she wasn’t wrong either. It just felt wrong to me. That was a big problem I had with the past and present alternating chapters, instead of following it organically along in the story. It might have come across the same way, but at least I would have felt it was more of journey. I don’t know how to exactly describe what I mean, but it just felt weird and tainted from how it was done.
Also I didn’t care for in the present, that there was that ticking time bomb kind of feeling that built up all that anticipation to when Billy and Bridget would finally have that conversation that they loved each other and wanted to be together, and then when it finally came it was disappointing because it didn’t deliver. Not because the confessions of love and wanting to be there weren’t there, but the fact that they never got that love scene that I had been waiting for and they had been working years for, and then get that fade to black scene, and that was it. I’m sure it was satisfying off page, but for me who had been waiting for it for all this time with all that anticipation it was just a let down. I’m going to be bitter about that for sometime.
There were a few issues that were not resolved or answered that I would have liked too seen answered in comparison to all the other stuff that was shown that I felt unnecessary. For one, since there was no full blown love scene between Billy and Bridget, then I didn’t see the reaction of Bridget to Billy’s tattoo that represented her. I think that would have been a sweet moment between them, and also make her realize how special she had been to him and that it had been quite a while. It would have made a great impact to the story I think. I wanted to see it especially when Billy commented that he hid these tattoos from her for years upon years not wanting her to realize how in love with her that he was for fearing of messing up their relationship. His tattoo for Katie was revealed to Bridget and she even made comment on it, but not the one of her. It seemed like it wasn’t there or she didn’t see it. i would like to think she didn’t see it and would have once they got to the bedroom to make love. I just wanted to see it since it was mentioned.
Another unresolved issue was with her father. It was touched on that her father was keeping tabs on Bridget and Katie over the years, but it never explained why, or why he was the way he was with Bridget. There was little explanation, and his actions were very contradictory. I thought after he died and there was a mention of will that a letter would have come into play for Bridget to read so there would have been more of an explanation of where his head was and why he did what he did, but there was just nothing. I could speculate that he was sorry for what he did and with giving her things after this death that was his way to apologize for what he did, but that wasn’t enough for me. I wanted more. I was hoping for a letter or something where I could have gotten more in his head. I just had more questions than answers.
The third issue that wasn’t resolved or allude to was the fact that Katie learning that Phillip was her father. I would have like to have seen her reaction when she found out. I know she would always consider Billy her father and no other because he helped her raised her and they have a good relationship, but I would have like to have known how she found out and what she would have thought. I wouldn’t have cared so much if it wasn’t introduced in the story. When Phillip stated he wanted to know his daughter and wanted her to know that he was her father, then they had that little introduction, but then it dropped there and nothing else was said about it. I would have almost been okay if Katie knew by reading her mother’s diaries, or somehow she figured it out, but there was nothing. So, what was the point to even go there? Why have Phillip come back in the first place? That storyline just didn’t go anywhere so did it really needed to be included in there? Because I don’t think so.
Also the whole Bridget’s writing thing was dropped. She never showed Billy her stories, which I thought she would especially when declaring her love for him and showing how long she had feelings for him so he could understand that she was as tortured as he was for many, many years. That it was mentioned about Katie reading her mother’s story and wanting more and needed to know the ends even encouraging her mother to finish them, but that was dropped to. Nothing of consequence was done near the end. Nothing else was mentioned. There was almost no point to them. Okay, maybe him giving her the laptop, but even still I don’t think that was a big enough reason to warrant it being in there. There just needed to be more of reason why it was in the story in the first place either with Billy discovering how long she had feelings for him, or Katie discovering who her biological father was that would have had more impact to the story than what actually was in there containing the writing storyline.
It wasn’t all bad though. I did appreciate that this was a friends to lovers story that was 18 years in the making. There was a lot of good foundation for Billy and Bridget before they became a couple. I did like seeing that development over the years. I liked how they built that trust between them from the moment that they first met. I also liked seeing how their feelings grow and change for one another over their years of friendship especially on Billy’s part, who wasn’t attracted to her physically until she turned 21 years old then his feelings just grew from their once she became a “woman.”
I did appreciate that build between them, and how long it took them to get their HEA and created that great anticipation between them even though the pay of wasn’t satisfying to me in the end, but I still enjoyed it. Seeing how much the cared about each other and were really there for each other. For all intents and purposes they were a couple for years just not completely. It was very obvious that Billy, Bridget, and Katie were one big happily family for many years that was just adorable to see.
I adored Billy. The devotion that he showed toward Bridget then later on Katie was so stinking cute. He put his heart and soul into them from the moment he met Bridget. He was immediately attached and all in as he helped 16 year old pregnant Bridget when she came into his diner that night. He had a heart a freaking gold. Everything were just for these two ladies that he loved with all his heart. Whenever he would call them “my girls” just my heart would swoon and I would love him all over again. They way he treated them was just beyond anything. He liked taking care of them. He loved having them in his life. He didn’t want to be anywhere else because that was his family that he created over the years. The way he was with both of them. The bond he had with Katie was just beyond special that I couldn’t help but smile. He was truly her dad and no one else. He was just a great guy.
Overall I’m giving this a pretty generous three stars especially after that ending kind pissed me off. I did like the relationship/romance of Billy and Bridget, but I just wanted more of it than the extraneous stuff that was in it like other relationships they had with other people. I could have dealt with a lot less detail on that front especially on the love scene side of the story and especially when Billy and Bridget only got a fade black scene that really annoyed me. I just don’t like in romances when it shown the MC with other people, which takes away from the main romance. I just don’t care for it. I don’t like it, and this story was no exception. I get that this story took place over 18 years and life happened to them before they could get their HEA, but I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t see the point. I could have dealt with just summarizes like “He’s sleeping with this other person, but his heart with Bridget” or “She’s dating this other guy, but she wants Billy” something like that would have more than suffice for me. It just turned me off and tainted it for me. I didn’t like the structure with the back and forth in timelines, instead of going at it organically. If there would have been one two flashbacks, I would okay, or if they did it chronically it would have been better, but I didn’t like how it was done here. I appreciated getting the complete story over the 18 year span of their relationship. I enjoyed seeing them become a close nit family over the years with the love continuing to grow and strengthen over course of time. I liked it was friends to lovers. I liked all the build up and anticipation even though there wasn’t as satisfying enough pay off for me in the end. I liked Billy and how the was with his two girls. I liked the love and care between them. I loved seeing the interaction between the three of them. It was just all the extra stuff that I didn’t care for that wasn’t centered around the three of them. I just thought it was a waste and would have preferred more focus on them and less on everything else. There were also some unresolved issue that I thought should have been addressed, instead of all the other superfluous stuff. Somethings should have been more the focus than the other. I didn’t hate this story, but I didn’t love it either. It just wasn’t my favorite friends to lovers that I have read, and I was expecting a lot more than I got from this story.
I’m just going dive right on in because I have a lot of things I want say, and there are a lot of things I feel especially after that ending.
After all that build up between Billy and Bridget that had been building the entire book, and there was no proper love scene between them. Excuse me. Like no. That wasn’t right especially since there were multiple love scenes in the book with other people in great detail with other people, but not with other people. I didn’t need, nor did I liked seeing those detail love scenes especially multiple times and with multiple people on both sides. That’s not what I want in my romances. It was turn off even before I knew that Billy and Bridget got no love scene, but now I’m more turned off and really pissed because there wasn’t one with Billy and Bridget. What was the freaking point of that? I just made no sense to me of why the didin’t especially since it was building up that moment between the two of them. Then there’s nothing. NO. NO. NO. The other love scenes could have been sacrificed but not the one between Billy and Bridget because that was the most important and meaningful one that should have been shown out of all of them. I just feel very cheated right now and very unsatisfied with the fact that I didn’t get that pay off that I was looking for in the end. It’s almost made me feel what was the point of reading it when I didn’t get what I wanted nor what I was expecting. It just annoyed me on so many levels that I get that scene that I had been waiting for and anticipating for so long.
And on a related note to that, I didn’t care for how much focus was put on the other relationships in this story compared to Billy and Bridget’s. It didn’t overshadow their relationship, but I did think it took too much away from them as their relationship grew and developed over the course of time. I wanted more focus on them, and less on everything else. Granted I get that it was important because certain events lead to certain events that brought them together as well as kept them apart, and there needed to be that history there. I understand that, but again too much were focused not the other romantic relationship and not enough on the two of them. With the other relationships I didn’t need as much detail as I got because I didn’t care. They weren’t the main couple, and I wanted more on the main couple. Were their relationships part of their story? Yes, of course they were, but the main focus I wanted. I could have dealt with a lot more summary or just illusions when dealing with the other relationships. I didn’t need the nitty gritty. I especially didn’t those love scenes in there. I would have been more than satisfied with fade to black scene, instead of actually scenes between them, instead it was Billy and Bridget that got the fade to black, and as from the above paragraph you can tell that just really irked me. I didn’t care about the other relationships. I didn’t want to see them played out of the pages. I didn’t need to be shown details because I wanted to the romance to be between Billy and Bridget not everyone else. I’m so mad.
Another thing that I didn’t care for was the structure of the story. I wish it was done in a more chronically and linear fashion, instead of the present then flashback to the past for every other chapter. In the first chapter, it was revealed that Billy was in love with Bridget and had been for fourteen years so having that knowledge right away kind took away the journey to happen in an organically and natural way. I wanted to have that feeling, but because it switched time periods back and forth so readily it was almost like I knew too much and colored what I was experiencing while in the past chapters if that makes sense. It made it worse then when those other relationships were on page because I knew where his head was for the past fourteen years with his love for Bridget, yet he had these relationships throughout the years because he couldn’t be with her. Not that he shouldn’t, and he wasn’t cheating on Bridget, yet it felt kind of was. So, it tainted it for me in that regard. He was just using woman for his physical needs, but never opened up to them emotionally because he considered himself Bridget’s. Bridget did the same thing too, and she wasn’t wrong either. It just felt wrong to me. That was a big problem I had with the past and present alternating chapters, instead of following it organically along in the story. It might have come across the same way, but at least I would have felt it was more of journey. I don’t know how to exactly describe what I mean, but it just felt weird and tainted from how it was done.
Also I didn’t care for in the present, that there was that ticking time bomb kind of feeling that built up all that anticipation to when Billy and Bridget would finally have that conversation that they loved each other and wanted to be together, and then when it finally came it was disappointing because it didn’t deliver. Not because the confessions of love and wanting to be there weren’t there, but the fact that they never got that love scene that I had been waiting for and they had been working years for, and then get that fade to black scene, and that was it. I’m sure it was satisfying off page, but for me who had been waiting for it for all this time with all that anticipation it was just a let down. I’m going to be bitter about that for sometime.
There were a few issues that were not resolved or answered that I would have liked too seen answered in comparison to all the other stuff that was shown that I felt unnecessary. For one, since there was no full blown love scene between Billy and Bridget, then I didn’t see the reaction of Bridget to Billy’s tattoo that represented her. I think that would have been a sweet moment between them, and also make her realize how special she had been to him and that it had been quite a while. It would have made a great impact to the story I think. I wanted to see it especially when Billy commented that he hid these tattoos from her for years upon years not wanting her to realize how in love with her that he was for fearing of messing up their relationship. His tattoo for Katie was revealed to Bridget and she even made comment on it, but not the one of her. It seemed like it wasn’t there or she didn’t see it. i would like to think she didn’t see it and would have once they got to the bedroom to make love. I just wanted to see it since it was mentioned.
Another unresolved issue was with her father. It was touched on that her father was keeping tabs on Bridget and Katie over the years, but it never explained why, or why he was the way he was with Bridget. There was little explanation, and his actions were very contradictory. I thought after he died and there was a mention of will that a letter would have come into play for Bridget to read so there would have been more of an explanation of where his head was and why he did what he did, but there was just nothing. I could speculate that he was sorry for what he did and with giving her things after this death that was his way to apologize for what he did, but that wasn’t enough for me. I wanted more. I was hoping for a letter or something where I could have gotten more in his head. I just had more questions than answers.
The third issue that wasn’t resolved or allude to was the fact that Katie learning that Phillip was her father. I would have like to have seen her reaction when she found out. I know she would always consider Billy her father and no other because he helped her raised her and they have a good relationship, but I would have like to have known how she found out and what she would have thought. I wouldn’t have cared so much if it wasn’t introduced in the story. When Phillip stated he wanted to know his daughter and wanted her to know that he was her father, then they had that little introduction, but then it dropped there and nothing else was said about it. I would have almost been okay if Katie knew by reading her mother’s diaries, or somehow she figured it out, but there was nothing. So, what was the point to even go there? Why have Phillip come back in the first place? That storyline just didn’t go anywhere so did it really needed to be included in there? Because I don’t think so.
Also the whole Bridget’s writing thing was dropped. She never showed Billy her stories, which I thought she would especially when declaring her love for him and showing how long she had feelings for him so he could understand that she was as tortured as he was for many, many years. That it was mentioned about Katie reading her mother’s story and wanting more and needed to know the ends even encouraging her mother to finish them, but that was dropped to. Nothing of consequence was done near the end. Nothing else was mentioned. There was almost no point to them. Okay, maybe him giving her the laptop, but even still I don’t think that was a big enough reason to warrant it being in there. There just needed to be more of reason why it was in the story in the first place either with Billy discovering how long she had feelings for him, or Katie discovering who her biological father was that would have had more impact to the story than what actually was in there containing the writing storyline.
It wasn’t all bad though. I did appreciate that this was a friends to lovers story that was 18 years in the making. There was a lot of good foundation for Billy and Bridget before they became a couple. I did like seeing that development over the years. I liked how they built that trust between them from the moment that they first met. I also liked seeing how their feelings grow and change for one another over their years of friendship especially on Billy’s part, who wasn’t attracted to her physically until she turned 21 years old then his feelings just grew from their once she became a “woman.”
I did appreciate that build between them, and how long it took them to get their HEA and created that great anticipation between them even though the pay of wasn’t satisfying to me in the end, but I still enjoyed it. Seeing how much the cared about each other and were really there for each other. For all intents and purposes they were a couple for years just not completely. It was very obvious that Billy, Bridget, and Katie were one big happily family for many years that was just adorable to see.
I adored Billy. The devotion that he showed toward Bridget then later on Katie was so stinking cute. He put his heart and soul into them from the moment he met Bridget. He was immediately attached and all in as he helped 16 year old pregnant Bridget when she came into his diner that night. He had a heart a freaking gold. Everything were just for these two ladies that he loved with all his heart. Whenever he would call them “my girls” just my heart would swoon and I would love him all over again. They way he treated them was just beyond anything. He liked taking care of them. He loved having them in his life. He didn’t want to be anywhere else because that was his family that he created over the years. The way he was with both of them. The bond he had with Katie was just beyond special that I couldn’t help but smile. He was truly her dad and no one else. He was just a great guy.
Overall I’m giving this a pretty generous three stars especially after that ending kind pissed me off. I did like the relationship/romance of Billy and Bridget, but I just wanted more of it than the extraneous stuff that was in it like other relationships they had with other people. I could have dealt with a lot less detail on that front especially on the love scene side of the story and especially when Billy and Bridget only got a fade black scene that really annoyed me. I just don’t like in romances when it shown the MC with other people, which takes away from the main romance. I just don’t care for it. I don’t like it, and this story was no exception. I get that this story took place over 18 years and life happened to them before they could get their HEA, but I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t see the point. I could have dealt with just summarizes like “He’s sleeping with this other person, but his heart with Bridget” or “She’s dating this other guy, but she wants Billy” something like that would have more than suffice for me. It just turned me off and tainted it for me. I didn’t like the structure with the back and forth in timelines, instead of going at it organically. If there would have been one two flashbacks, I would okay, or if they did it chronically it would have been better, but I didn’t like how it was done here. I appreciated getting the complete story over the 18 year span of their relationship. I enjoyed seeing them become a close nit family over the years with the love continuing to grow and strengthen over course of time. I liked it was friends to lovers. I liked all the build up and anticipation even though there wasn’t as satisfying enough pay off for me in the end. I liked Billy and how the was with his two girls. I liked the love and care between them. I loved seeing the interaction between the three of them. It was just all the extra stuff that I didn’t care for that wasn’t centered around the three of them. I just thought it was a waste and would have preferred more focus on them and less on everything else. There were also some unresolved issue that I thought should have been addressed, instead of all the other superfluous stuff. Somethings should have been more the focus than the other. I didn’t hate this story, but I didn’t love it either. It just wasn’t my favorite friends to lovers that I have read, and I was expecting a lot more than I got from this story.
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July 11, 2017
What an enjoyable read. This book goes back from the past to the present. Normally, that doesn't work, but it does with this one quite well. I loved the characters and the plot. The pacing is excellent and I was engaged from the beginning to the end. Happy reading!
April 27, 2018
My life!
Thank you for this story! The lives of my daughter and granddaughter had so many parallels with Briget and Katie. Our family did not reject anyone but "the dad" did. My goodness, even the dates are the same. Sadly, there was no Billy in their story and my daughter still has never married. Some wounds just won't heal. Like Katie, my granddaughter became a beautiful, happy young woman who met her dad and siblings when she was 18; everyone loved her. Tragically, she was overcome by a medical condition and died on Christmas Eve, right before her 21st birthday.
Thank you for this story! The lives of my daughter and granddaughter had so many parallels with Briget and Katie. Our family did not reject anyone but "the dad" did. My goodness, even the dates are the same. Sadly, there was no Billy in their story and my daughter still has never married. Some wounds just won't heal. Like Katie, my granddaughter became a beautiful, happy young woman who met her dad and siblings when she was 18; everyone loved her. Tragically, she was overcome by a medical condition and died on Christmas Eve, right before her 21st birthday.
August 3, 2018
Not feeling it
I'm not a fan of each chapter changing from flash back to flash forward, repeat. It's confusing, ruins the flow & feels like a string of high/lowlights not building something substantial.
I was also left with questions, unsatisfied feeling you get looking at someone else's photo album.
I'm not a fan of each chapter changing from flash back to flash forward, repeat. It's confusing, ruins the flow & feels like a string of high/lowlights not building something substantial.
I was also left with questions, unsatisfied feeling you get looking at someone else's photo album.
July 26, 2020
A Delightful Tale With Mistakes Galore
This is a wonderful story about love. With love there can also be despair and fear which develops into a strong sense of determination. This tale helps you through twist and turns as time goes on. An expected happy ending might happen. I just know that I have a new author to follow!
This is a wonderful story about love. With love there can also be despair and fear which develops into a strong sense of determination. This tale helps you through twist and turns as time goes on. An expected happy ending might happen. I just know that I have a new author to follow!
June 8, 2017
Great Read
Cooper is a great writer! The imagery was so good that I could visualize the scenes and characters perfectly! I can't wait to read the next book!
Cooper is a great writer! The imagery was so good that I could visualize the scenes and characters perfectly! I can't wait to read the next book!
January 14, 2018
Love at its best and worst. Never give up when you really love that person.
This story had highs and lows of life. Teen pregnancy is rampant in today's world. I'm glad Billy was there for Bridgett. Not every teen has someone to love and help them. I love a hea and this gives this all very well. Great characters well thought out storyline. This was my first read of this author and I will say I look forward to more.
This story had highs and lows of life. Teen pregnancy is rampant in today's world. I'm glad Billy was there for Bridgett. Not every teen has someone to love and help them. I love a hea and this gives this all very well. Great characters well thought out storyline. This was my first read of this author and I will say I look forward to more.
September 3, 2018
Ok
I thought this was a cute book but found it dragged.. It was very predictable and just took long to get to what you knew was going to happen.. I wanted more from her daughter but she didn't really add much to the character. Probably need to read the second book but not sure if I want too. Sorry like I said it was cute but kind of boring.
I thought this was a cute book but found it dragged.. It was very predictable and just took long to get to what you knew was going to happen.. I wanted more from her daughter but she didn't really add much to the character. Probably need to read the second book but not sure if I want too. Sorry like I said it was cute but kind of boring.
October 31, 2016
Lovely story
Cristin Cooper has written a lovely story of compassion and love. It made me all warm and fuzzy inside as the main characters dance around each other and their feelings.
Cristin Cooper has written a lovely story of compassion and love. It made me all warm and fuzzy inside as the main characters dance around each other and their feelings.
February 18, 2018
After seeing all the positive reviews, I really wanted to like this book. The storyline was promising but I found the switching from present time to past flashbacks to be choppy and hard to follow and many times the story became repetitive. Wanted it to be over long before I finished it.
August 20, 2017
Bridget is a beautiful teenager trying to feel wanted and cherished. Left with a emotionally closed off father, after she lost her mom. New life, and only one friend who pushed her to be more like her. Phillip the first boy she loved but couldn't admit her age til she discovered she was pregnant.
When life tossed her aside it gave her Billy.
Billy's life was in limbo, after the loss if his parents he returned. He had his first love but until Bridget then Katie it lacked direction, purpose, family and true love.
It took them years and countless relationships before Katie went off to college and put into motion that they had to either admit how much each mattered or stay put.
This book is a tear jerker. Phillip didn't mean to not be involved- he was a scared 19 year old, with a domineering father, he ran scared. You can see over the years he regretted that very much. I wonder what if Bridget wanted him back but glad it worked out as it did.
Bridget's father couldn't be emotionally involved- something happened after her third birthday and he was never the same. I wonder why...
Preston (I guess Jared who wasn't significant to be mentioned) was a great guy, I'm glad he had such a big heart. Too bad she had already given it away. I hope he recovers. Too bad he lost that friendship.
Katie was a loved girl and Bridget was embraced by all.
I loved this story, the flashbacks and their almost relationship all those years. The ending though was much too short considering how long it took to get there. The wedding, telling Katie that should have been in there.
I hope book 2 gives an update. This book made me smile, cry and connect with the characters.
When life tossed her aside it gave her Billy.
Billy's life was in limbo, after the loss if his parents he returned. He had his first love but until Bridget then Katie it lacked direction, purpose, family and true love.
It took them years and countless relationships before Katie went off to college and put into motion that they had to either admit how much each mattered or stay put.
This book is a tear jerker. Phillip didn't mean to not be involved- he was a scared 19 year old, with a domineering father, he ran scared. You can see over the years he regretted that very much. I wonder what if Bridget wanted him back but glad it worked out as it did.
Bridget's father couldn't be emotionally involved- something happened after her third birthday and he was never the same. I wonder why...
Preston (I guess Jared who wasn't significant to be mentioned) was a great guy, I'm glad he had such a big heart. Too bad she had already given it away. I hope he recovers. Too bad he lost that friendship.
Katie was a loved girl and Bridget was embraced by all.
I loved this story, the flashbacks and their almost relationship all those years. The ending though was much too short considering how long it took to get there. The wedding, telling Katie that should have been in there.
I hope book 2 gives an update. This book made me smile, cry and connect with the characters.
January 13, 2020
#1 in the Until romance series
When Bridget gets pregnant at 15 and loses the support of the men in her life, she comes across a diner and is befriended by the people there, especially the owner, Billy. She becomes a part of the diner family, growing up and essentially sharing Katie's parenting with Billy. Now I enjoy a romance with some sexual tension and delayed gratification, but this was ridiculous. Bridget and Billy are perfect for each other, both love each other, but both are afraid to admit their feelings, and it takes them 18 years to come to the HEA--all the way at the end of the book! After such a long wait, it became very put-downable, and I lost interest from time to time; it was frustrating. Then when I picked it up again, it was tough to keep track of the timing because the book kept jumping back to the earliest days, watching Katie grow up. Then the next chapter would be about the current day, when Katie is packing to leave for college. I had to keep checking at the beginning of each chapter to remind myself where I was and what had happened in the previous related chapter. All that being said, I enjoyed the characters and liked watching them grow and change. But their glacial slowness was a turn-off. I will, however, read the next book in the duet to see what happens with daughter Katie's romance now that Bridget and Billy are settled.
When Bridget gets pregnant at 15 and loses the support of the men in her life, she comes across a diner and is befriended by the people there, especially the owner, Billy. She becomes a part of the diner family, growing up and essentially sharing Katie's parenting with Billy. Now I enjoy a romance with some sexual tension and delayed gratification, but this was ridiculous. Bridget and Billy are perfect for each other, both love each other, but both are afraid to admit their feelings, and it takes them 18 years to come to the HEA--all the way at the end of the book! After such a long wait, it became very put-downable, and I lost interest from time to time; it was frustrating. Then when I picked it up again, it was tough to keep track of the timing because the book kept jumping back to the earliest days, watching Katie grow up. Then the next chapter would be about the current day, when Katie is packing to leave for college. I had to keep checking at the beginning of each chapter to remind myself where I was and what had happened in the previous related chapter. All that being said, I enjoyed the characters and liked watching them grow and change. But their glacial slowness was a turn-off. I will, however, read the next book in the duet to see what happens with daughter Katie's romance now that Bridget and Billy are settled.
June 23, 2018
4 stars.
It was sweet. It was angsty.
The story starts with our sweet and shy Bridget going to a party where she mets a wonderful guy–Phillip. They started dating and accidentally Bridget's gets pregnant. At 16 with nowhere to go and being allianated by her friend, boyfriend, and father, she goes to a diner where she meets the owner of the diner–Billy.
Billy is genuinely a nice guy. He gives shelter to her and takes care of her.
At present day after 18 years, the last day of Katie– Bridget's daughter– before going to Uni, Bridget is worried if her friendship of 18 years (because of katie) with Billy is going to be over. They both dont know that they both love each other since a very long time. There were many girls and guys in both of their lives in those 18 years but nothing became solid.
I love Bridget's and Billy's relationship. Its was cute but full of angst. I didn't like the way they treated their respective former partners. It felt unfair to them. Especially Freja.
I loved the epilogue too. I'll say again, it was a sweet and angsty read.
It was sweet. It was angsty.
The story starts with our sweet and shy Bridget going to a party where she mets a wonderful guy–Phillip. They started dating and accidentally Bridget's gets pregnant. At 16 with nowhere to go and being allianated by her friend, boyfriend, and father, she goes to a diner where she meets the owner of the diner–Billy.
Billy is genuinely a nice guy. He gives shelter to her and takes care of her.
At present day after 18 years, the last day of Katie– Bridget's daughter– before going to Uni, Bridget is worried if her friendship of 18 years (because of katie) with Billy is going to be over. They both dont know that they both love each other since a very long time. There were many girls and guys in both of their lives in those 18 years but nothing became solid.
I love Bridget's and Billy's relationship. Its was cute but full of angst. I didn't like the way they treated their respective former partners. It felt unfair to them. Especially Freja.
I loved the epilogue too. I'll say again, it was a sweet and angsty read.
September 15, 2021
One of the BEST romance book I ever read ! 📖 The story is so cute ! I loved the way the author describe every year, with a lot of details without making the chapters boring. You understand where the characters are coming from and kind of got an idea of where they are going. You discover each other’s feeling in the same time as them, wich makes it so special ! 😍 Their lives has been so well described, everything makes sense, there’s no « not important details, or anecdotes ». The end is so satisfying and it’s the only one that could have ever been written if you worship this couple . Their relationships to each other’s are so special, full with love, that you can only love them. In conclusion I would say GO READ THIS BOOK, it’s amazing 😻
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November 30, 2021
3.5 stars
Yet another pining and angsty romance.
I think the author handled the age difference and the shift in their romance so that it wouldn’t be creepy. I also enjoyed the focus on Katie and her growth and her thoughts on the matter. The flashbacks were definitely interesting and I think overall the story handles the pregnancy trope well, which is great considering its a large part of the plot ahaha.
As usual with these tropes there is some emotional affairs and some slight cheating but nothing *too* terrible.
This was a super quick and easy read and I did enjoy seeing the characters grow and change as time passed. Everything was handled pretty well! I did enjoy it overall!
TW: neglect, emotional cheating, cheating, age gap
Yet another pining and angsty romance.
I think the author handled the age difference and the shift in their romance so that it wouldn’t be creepy. I also enjoyed the focus on Katie and her growth and her thoughts on the matter. The flashbacks were definitely interesting and I think overall the story handles the pregnancy trope well, which is great considering its a large part of the plot ahaha.
As usual with these tropes there is some emotional affairs and some slight cheating but nothing *too* terrible.
This was a super quick and easy read and I did enjoy seeing the characters grow and change as time passed. Everything was handled pretty well! I did enjoy it overall!
TW: neglect, emotional cheating, cheating, age gap
October 10, 2021
This was just ok. I think it would’ve been better if it went in chronological order instead of back and forth with their individual stories and the present. I obviously knew they’d get together in the end. Their individual stories were pretty good overall. I loved how invested Billy was with both Bridget and Katie.
It was frustrating that neither of them had the balls to let the other know how they felt for all those years.
I also found it a little annoying that it was written in a their personal but individual chapters for them, I’d have preferred a first person POV to feel more what the characters were feeling. Just my person preference.
It was frustrating that neither of them had the balls to let the other know how they felt for all those years.
I also found it a little annoying that it was written in a their personal but individual chapters for them, I’d have preferred a first person POV to feel more what the characters were feeling. Just my person preference.
January 4, 2018
Good Read
Very good to see this common thread be written from the perspectives of all involved. Bridget's life starts out with her thinking she isn't loved by her dad. She falls in love with someone who abandons her, only to find ever lasting love in a diner. Sad part of this story, is that too often young teen girls are left holding the pity stick and shamed for mistakes made when they are not the only ones to be blamed. Sorry guys but you should all take a lesson from Billy and man up in the lives of the women you claim to love and the children you help create.
Very good to see this common thread be written from the perspectives of all involved. Bridget's life starts out with her thinking she isn't loved by her dad. She falls in love with someone who abandons her, only to find ever lasting love in a diner. Sad part of this story, is that too often young teen girls are left holding the pity stick and shamed for mistakes made when they are not the only ones to be blamed. Sorry guys but you should all take a lesson from Billy and man up in the lives of the women you claim to love and the children you help create.
January 7, 2022
After the death of her mother, Bridget Larson's life became almost unbearable. At fifteen, her father's emotional absence in her life left a gaping hole that was temporarily filled by an affectionate but careless college student. Once Bridget's secret was revealed, she was spurned and cast out of her father's house. Alone in the world, Bridget didn't realize that every step she took, every decision she made would lead her to a love that would endure for a lifetime. This was an excellent story filled with emotion. I Loved It!!!!!
November 13, 2025
Grooming. thats all it is. trying to pass it off as some great love story is fucking weird. she was a child when they met. he was a fully grown adult. 16 is a child. a teen. a minor whos brain is still at least a decade away from being fully developed. a man in his mid 20s falling in love with her is fucking weird. Idc how any of you try to spin it. its grooming and its gross. im really tired of authors doing this. why do yall have a fetish for little girls with undeveloped brains being groomed by other men? I could never meet a 16 year old and then end up dating her years later.
July 3, 2018
This is book one in the Until series. It’s really two books in one. There is a lot of flipping from past to present so you have to pay attention to the dates at the beginning of each chapter. At first, it was confusing, but I quickly got used to it. Until Now spends as much time in flashbacks as it does in the present. It’s a sweet contemporary romance that’s easy to read and entertaining while dealing with some pretty heavy stuff. It’s a good summer read.
January 24, 2022
WOW!
Beyond words!
What an incredibly moving journey through life!
I have to say, first, I totally loved the way your wrote this book! While some wish for A to B, the revelance of this moving novel would have been lost without your writing it the way you did, Ms. Cooper.
And, well, frankly, I am stunned, Moved beyond words, and cannot believe I am unable to do service to this review!
I am so completely moved, I have no mind left!
Brilliant and Beautiful!
Karen
Beyond words!
What an incredibly moving journey through life!
I have to say, first, I totally loved the way your wrote this book! While some wish for A to B, the revelance of this moving novel would have been lost without your writing it the way you did, Ms. Cooper.
And, well, frankly, I am stunned, Moved beyond words, and cannot believe I am unable to do service to this review!
I am so completely moved, I have no mind left!
Brilliant and Beautiful!
Karen
January 25, 2023
Captivating Story
Waiting to love someone for eighteen years don't seem realistic. But
Waiting eighteen years to openly love someone just didn't seem realistic. Yet this story kept me engaged. I fell in love with Bridget who wanted to be loved. As most teenage girls do. She showed strength when her Father kicked her out the house and the father of her child turned his back on her too. The ending was just what I was hoping for.
Waiting to love someone for eighteen years don't seem realistic. But
Waiting eighteen years to openly love someone just didn't seem realistic. Yet this story kept me engaged. I fell in love with Bridget who wanted to be loved. As most teenage girls do. She showed strength when her Father kicked her out the house and the father of her child turned his back on her too. The ending was just what I was hoping for.
January 13, 2018
SO GOOD.
This book was absolutely amazing, never in my life have I ever been so happy to get a notification for a good book that is free. I've never been so emotionally involved in a book. This book is worth the read. I literally finished it two days, this book was absolutely fantastic. I can’t wait to read read it haha
This book was absolutely amazing, never in my life have I ever been so happy to get a notification for a good book that is free. I've never been so emotionally involved in a book. This book is worth the read. I literally finished it two days, this book was absolutely fantastic. I can’t wait to read read it haha
April 13, 2018
Pregnant at 16
Rejected by her grieving father, thrown out on the street by her dad as well as the father of her baby, she was blessed to find a place to stay where both she and her baby were loved and needed.
A nice story. I found it very difficult to believe they could wait 18 years to declare their love for each other.
Rejected by her grieving father, thrown out on the street by her dad as well as the father of her baby, she was blessed to find a place to stay where both she and her baby were loved and needed.
A nice story. I found it very difficult to believe they could wait 18 years to declare their love for each other.
May 20, 2018
A quick easy read, with no real depth pretty straightforward from the start . Ideal for when you haven’t got the brain space to follow a plot! But I look forward to the next one in the series ! But I loo
A quick easy read with no real depth. A pretty straightforward story line and a predictable plot! But I look forward to reading the next one in the series
A quick easy read with no real depth. A pretty straightforward story line and a predictable plot! But I look forward to reading the next one in the series
December 31, 2018
Silver Lining
I loved this story! Everything from teenage angst to finally fitting into a family. Bridget and Billy have unconditional love for each other and for Bridget's daughter Katie. What they don't realize is how much the other loves them. Very uplifting as you root for them throughout the story ~
I loved this story! Everything from teenage angst to finally fitting into a family. Bridget and Billy have unconditional love for each other and for Bridget's daughter Katie. What they don't realize is how much the other loves them. Very uplifting as you root for them throughout the story ~
February 21, 2019
Sweet love story
This was really a great story.It was well written& great storyline. It was a little hard to follow as it around a bit,but well worth finishing.It is about a 16 yr. pregnant & alone.It is s great story on her she struggled to raise her daughter & the friends that helped her along the way.It I'd definitely a 5 star & I highly recommend it.
This was really a great story.It was well written& great storyline. It was a little hard to follow as it around a bit,but well worth finishing.It is about a 16 yr. pregnant & alone.It is s great story on her she struggled to raise her daughter & the friends that helped her along the way.It I'd definitely a 5 star & I highly recommend it.
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