Emma Scott

Forever Right Now

***STANDALONE new adult romance from the author of The Butterfly Project and the Full Tilt Duet*** Darlene Montgomery has been to hell and back...more than once. After a stint in jail for drug possession, she is finally clean and ready to start over. Yet another failed relationship is just the motivation she needs to move from New York to San Francisco with the hopes of resurrecting her dance career and discovering that she is more than the sum of her rap sheet. As Darlene struggles in her new city, the last thing she wants is to become entangled with her handsome-but cranky-neighbor and his adorable little girl... Sawyer Haas is weeks away from finishing law school, but exhaustion, dwindling finances, and the pressure to provide for himself and his daughter, Olivia, are wearing him down. A federal clerkship--a job he desperately needs--awaits him after graduation, but only if he passes the Bar Exam. Sawyer doesn't have the time or patience for the capricious-if beautiful-dancer who moves into the apartment above his. But Darlene's easy laugh and cheerful spirit seep into the cracks of his hardened heart, and slowly break down the walls he's resurrected to keep from being betrayed ever again. When the parents of Olivia's absentee mother come to fight for custody, Sawyer could lose everything. To have any chance at happiness, he must trust Darlene, the woman who has somehow found her way past his brittle barbs, and Darlene must decide how much of her own bruised heart she is willing to give to Sawyer and Olivia, especially when the ghosts of her troubled past refuse to stay buried. For readers 18 and up

Petaco

I'm surprised I can still see after how much I rolled my eyes while reading this book. 

So ridiculous!

IF YOU ARE IN MOBILE, BE CAREFUL, THERE WERE MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW. I HAVE THEM BEHIND TAGS BUT IT DOESN'T ALWAYS SHOW ON THE APP. 







(view spoiler)[This guy has a one night stand with a woman he didn't know. She shows up months later with a baby. He finds out the baby isn't his but still decided to keep it because why??? Nothing explains why this guy would be attached to a random baby. He's not a family guy, has no younger relatives, and doesn't even have the means to support a kid. It makes zero sense. Why in the world he would want to be in the book for taking care of that baby, I have no idea!? (hide spoiler)]

Also there is no chemistry between the two main characters.

celene

4.5
when sawyer was described as a blonde-haired man my mind went straight to warner from shatter me series so uhm,,, if there’s a blonde-haired man ur automatically hot for me,,, well unless he’s a jerk and not the endearing kind u know,,, he seems to be the former at first,,, but turns out 🤯 anyway im babbling lol

usually im not into the dad trope u know but uhmm he’s a young (loving) dad, a hardworking law student and has a photographic memory??? Uhm??? sign me up ✈️✈️✈️

oh man let me not forget about darlene mygoodness!!! What a lady!!! She’s a “tornado” :(((( love her for that she’s so kind and loving and she’s just so beautiful inside and out

EMEGES THE PLOT TWIST AAAAAAAH MY HEART FRICKIN JUMPED OUT OF ME AND CAME BACK BEATING AGAIN THANK GOD

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-sawyer has this soft soft heart :((((((
-darlene is just a ball of sunshine i love her
-olivia is such a smart and cute baby uwu
-bromance of sawyer & jackson awww :(((
-friendship of darlene and max was wicndoxnsn

im so happy for them y’all they deserve to be happy :(((

"back to life" by zayn - this is literally darlene and sawyer's song 
"she's always on my side. and if I lose the fight. i know she'll bring me back. bring me back to life"

If I could have just one moment, one feeling, and live in it forever, I would choose this one.”

darlene was drowning. sawyer was drowning. they both found life in each other. found family in each other <3 AHH LOVE IT anyways, single dad trope, grumpy lawyer neighbor x sunshine dancer!!

PARALLEL!!! "in the past, I’ve done all the giving. I’m the one who holds on and they don’t.”
-> "hold on to me and I'll hold on to you just as tightly" said sawyer !!! I DIED 
-> the book ends with "and we held on to her—and each other—just as tightly." AHHHH BRB CRYING AT 3AM


"like a song stuck in my head, played over and over, except I didn’t want it to stop." this line made me think of "love you like a love song" by selena gomez

"Telling you not to love is like depriving a flower of sunlight."

"You deserve to be loved as you are, Darlene. Not in bits and pieces.”

“Do you ever wish you could take a moment and keep it forever?

"That being with the people who love you isn’t weak. It’s how you stay strong."

“Forgetting is pretending it never happened,” Max said. “You need to remember and remember and remember, until it has no power over you anymore. Someday, I’m going to walk up to that lamppost and all of the memories will still be there, but they’ll be a part of who I am. Instead of having a shitty day, I’ll smile and think of how it was a piece of my past, but not the sum of it.”

“Are you holding on because you love them, or holding on because the alternative is being alone?”

“Everyone is worthy of love,” Max said. “But it starts with loving yourself first. That sounds like cheesy, clichéd shit, but it’s true. You have to know you can be good for someone else. Not just to fill up that hole in yourself, but to give.”

"his love; not something my lonely heart had manufactured to hold on to,"

Menna Khaled

AN AMAZING BOOK
Love, friendships, family, struggles,reality and best of all inner strength 
It’s all in there
Beautifully written

mahi

im a fucking mess after reading this. this couldnt have been a better story. sawyerdarleneolivia will forever stay in my heart 💜

{rr} still as good as the first time i read <3

clara

Kann ihre Liebe gegen die Schatten der Vergangenheit bestehen? Darlene Montgomery will in Seattle ganz von vorn anfangen und sich auf ihre Karriere als Tänzerin konzentrieren, nachdem sie endlich ihre Drogenprobleme überwunden hat. Das Letzte, was sie gebrauchen kann, ist in die Probleme ihres attraktiven Nachbarn Sawyer hineingezogen zu werden. Der junge Vater kämpft nicht nur darum, sein Jura-Examen zu schaffen, sondern auch um das Sorgerecht für seine Tochter. Aber bald schon kann Darlene sich ein Leben ohne ihn und die kleine Olivia nicht mehr vorstellen. Doch als ausgerechnet ihre eigene Vergangenheit Sawyers Aussichten bedroht, sein Kind behalten zu dürfen, wird ihre Beziehung auf eine harte Probe gestellt ... "Emotional, brillant, wunderschön!" BEWARE OF THE READER Band 2 der Only-Love-Trilogie

Forever Right Now

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