Review: Such an amazing book with NO Cliffhanger!!! LOVED it! 4.5 Stars!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 7, 2013
NO CLIFFHANGER"Maybe I'm not apologizing to the woman standing in front of me today, but to the girl I disappointed. I'll never disappoint you again, Em, I promise."This book was such a surprise! I loved the blurb, but had never heard of the author so I took a chance and one-clicked. Boy am I happy I did! Now and Then was such an amazing book filled with love, angst, jealousy, family secrets and a playboy turned perfect book boyfriend. It almost felt like Cinderella with the mean sister, Layla, getting everything and Emma always hiding in her shadow. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this book!I'm a sucker for childhood friends becoming lovers. That's how this story starts out. Emma is 2 years younger than her beautiful, popular sister and they are both in love with their 15 year old neighbor Cole. He's popular, sweet and attractive, and he doesn't even know Emma exists. But let's be honest, no 15 year old boy would really notice a 12 year old girl that way. So her sister Layla goes after him, and Cole who uses girls to fill the void in his family issues has no problem dating her a couple times. Layla was mean and cruel at times to Emma. She knew Emma liked Cole so when she got home from Prom with Cole she made sure to rub in all the details.Their parents and Cole's parents were best friends and always hoped Layla and Cole would marry one day. So when they all go their separate ways to college and grow up it was a complete surprise to Cole that he wanted Emma after running into her one morning years later. Cole saw her as a beautiful, confident, sweet and sexy woman, not the shy girl he knew back in high school. Emma was still hopelessly infatuated with Cole and didn't believe he actually wanted her and not her sister.Cole has a successful career at a law firm, a nice house, nice car, any woman he wants, but he has secrets and no real relationship. He thought that was enough, until Emma stumbled into his life...Emma feels like she is betraying Layla by dating Cole since Layla has made it clear she wants Cole. "And Layla always gets what she wants." Emma and Cole have a secret relationship that Cole is fighting to make public. He doesn't want to hide their relationship and gets frustrated with Emma's guilt over hurting Layla.I loved this book so much. You have the villain, Layla, whom you will love to hate. The geek turned beauty who wants to please her family instead of herself for fear of hurting her mean sister. The amazingly Hott guy who grew up to become a successful lawyer in spite of his family's big secret. And an extremely sweet relationship that was so unexpected and heartwarming that I LITERALLY couldn't put this book down!Visit my blog for more reviews and Signed Giveaways![...]