Never over you – Spoilers included. This is one of the best book series I have ever read. The writing is unbelievable, you feel every emotion the characters go through. I am looking forward to more books by this author. I couldn’t help but picture Eric Decker as Ethan and Jessie James as Mia however the ages and lives are very different.
Book 1 – Bring me You - Mia is an aspiring singer in a band when she meets Ethan at a party. He is a quarterback in the UFL and they are set up by her best friend Luke. She and Luke had a sexual relationship in the past that they are moving forward from due to his moving to another state to be with his daughter. Time and separation made them grow apart but feelings are still there. Mia’s band get signed and she starts becoming more busy with record deals and touring while Ethan is busy with football. They become engaged before she starts her 6 month world wide tour. The separation becomes to much for the both of them as they become tempted by others and Mia reverts to drugs and alcohol to make the pain go away. He chooses to go to dinner with another woman instead of going to visit her. Although nothing happened, the choice destroys them. She decides they need a break, as Ethan goes to see her to work things out she falls into her hotel room in the arms of Todd, her band mate. Ethan is there waiting when they arrive. She is high and the next day they talk and decide to continue the break for 5 weeks, the end of her tour and the end of the football season. Its gut wrenching as they part ways. Mia realizes she hasn’t dealt with her past as there are things she has never told him about herself, he realizes there are important things, more than the drug use she has never shared with anyone that needs to be dealt with.
Book 2 – Still into you - Several weeks later Mia’s tour hits Indianapolis, she goes to see Luke at The Flash’s offices and runs into Ethan. They have “goodbye” sex in Lukes office and then continue to see each other while she is in town. They both realize that she needs to “fix” herself before they can continue a relationship however she does nothing to make this happen except more alcohol and drugs. This book is very frustrating as she does nothing but make her life worse. She starts a relationship with Tom, thinking it will help her forget the pain and realizes it doesn’t, then one night with Todd she overdoses and ends up in the hospital. Ethan is there for her but leaves her to fix herself, hoping seeing a therapist will help her, knowing he cannot. Mia goes through years more of heartbreak, still not seeking help for herself. Writing, touring, loosing Tom in a motorcycle accident, moving to California , pushing everyone away. She stars in a movie in a role that hits to close to home and begins a relationship with a fellow actor. There is very little of Ethan in this book until she finally tells her therapist about her childhood and her mother’s abandonment. Nothing else really changes to give her what she needs to want Ethan back, just unnecessary drama to keep them apart. She moves back to Chicago and goes to see Ethan’s game and they get together afterwards. 3 years, it’s been 3 years since they broke up at this point. She finally tells Ethan her story once they reach California, they talk things through, things about their lives apart over the 3 years. At the end of the book Mia tells Ethan she is pregnant but she gets a call regarding her father collapsing when he is retrieving her old engagement ring from his bags they head to the airport.
Book 3 – Never over you - This picks up right where book two leaves off. They pack and make arrangements to go to see her father. Once they arrive they find him doing well and it’s not as bad as they anticipated. Once they get him home they are able to mend their estrangement. Ethan proposes again and wants to get married asap. They do 2 months later. The birth of the twins was very traumatic after a high risk pregnancy, Mia hemorrhaged and almost died. She had a out of body/near death experience. Once home and taking care of the boys, being alone with Ethan still busy with the football schedule, depression starts to set in. They build a recording studio and once she get back to her music it help. After about 6 months Mia pulls it together and then finds out she is pregnant with twins again however she miscarries which devastates them both. They struggle and grow apart, he with football, she with her career as a few years pass. She try’s to get pregnant and never does, feeling inadequate. After finding themselves again she has to go on a European tour. Ethan starts suspecting something is going on with Mia and Todd before they leave and after they are gone, he picks up on a Skype feed showing Todd with Mia telling her to “tell him”. This devastates Ethan and after an interview with Kristin he ends up sleeping with her. While she was away she felt like she was pregnant again and was rushng home to find out with Ethan however upon arrival he treats her so badly, angry at himself for what he did to her. When he tells her about Kristian it destroys her and she leaves. She confirms the pregnancy and doesn’t tell him as they work through everything. She did have a visit from Kristin telling her they she did not sleep with Ethan after all. They were both passed out drunk. The night of her birthday party she finds out things she didn’t know had happened in her past through videos, opening the door to talking with Ethan. Her having shut him out, keeping her so busy was not good for either of them and resulted in bad choices from them both. They work things out and at the end in the epilogue you find she is pregnant again with suspected twins, Ethan has retired and she has slowed down her life.