Review: RW3 solidifes this as one of my favorite series!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2013
Goodbyes really suck … especially when you aren't ready.Even though I was chomping at the bit to see how Trip and Layla’s story would end, at the same time, I just didn't want it to happen.  You know the old saying …. All good things must come to an end and, well, T. Torrest's farewell to Terrence C Wilmington III and Layla f-in Warren was PERFECTION.Sheer perfection to be exact.I’m going to put it out there …. Remember When 3 was not at all what I was expecting.  When I think of the Trip and Layla from Remember When 1 and 2, I think of angst, miscommunication, insecurity, assumptions, bad timing, up and down, hot and cold, are we / aren't we … basically anything and everything to keep them apart.  From the get-go though, Remember When 3 is about Trip and Layla TOGETHER.You got that right.Together.As a couple.‘Bout damn time!It’s been fourteen years since we first met Trip and Layla in Remember When … roughly five years since Layla packed up her life in New York to go after Trip in California in Remember When 2.  Only she never made it to California.  She made it back home and built a career as a writer while Trip stayed in California and became the Academy Award winning  actor we always knew he’d become since the first pages of Remember When.A family crisis brings Trip back home to Jersey and straight into Layla’s arms.  No fuss, no muss, Trip and Layla are together.“But, you’re mine, Lay.  You always have been.”  His hands moved to cup my face, fixing my eyes to his.  The thing is, though, is that I’m yours.  You own me.  You always did.  This is happening.  And we’re making it work this time.”  - TripBOOM!Not quite what I was expecting but I was only too happy to go with the flow.Trip and Layla have some tiny ups and downs but nothing too catastrophic …. Trip and Layla do the Academy Awards; Trip and Layla vs. the paparazzi; Layla vs. her ex; and Layla vs. Trip’s whorish past.  But then Layla has a MAJOR showdown that even I didn’t see coming and, because, really, it HAD to happen, Trip and Layla have a big smack down too.But their ending …. their ending is the stuff that makes you close your kindle, sigh, and smile.  And then cry.  And then smile again.  And, don’t judge, cry again.I pulled back, looked right into those gorgeous blue eyes and saw the truth I’d always known:“I’m not me without you.”I’m not saying good-bye to Trip and Layla because (1) I really do hate good-byes and (2) I’m holding out hope that one day, maybe one day, T will circle back around and give us more Trip and Layla …. A girl can dream!  <3