Haley Cass

Good things come to those who wait and now Sutton Spencer and Charlotte Thompson get to reap the benefits. They spent months circling around admitting their feelings, but the time for denying their love is over. As the world watches, their lives never stop growing. The only thing that's for certain is that through every hurdle that comes their way, they'll face it together.A collection of snapshots of a life lived and loved. A follow-up to the bestselling novel, Those Who Wait.

A Those Who Wait Story

Forever and A Day

Lucia Correa

This is a novella length epilogue for Haley Cass's book, Those Who Wait. You will definitely need to read that book first. 

This has 7 parts that covers a span of 23 years. Each part focuses on specific times in their lives, covering their continued relationship, wedding, family and careers. All in all an enjoyable and satisfying epilogue for Those Who Wait. 4.5 Stars

KADY BURNS

It's basically just an extended epilogue, and I LOVED it. A couple of editing issues, but I loved the long timeline she gave us.

Jude Silberfeld

Edit: October 30th, 2021, audiobook review.

As I wrote when I reviewed Forever and a Day the first time, getting to spend more time with Sutton and Charlotte is wonderful. Forever and a Day can absolutely not be read as a standalone, you need to have read Those Who Wait first to enjoy it completely. Also, if you haven’t read Those Who Wait yet, why? Fix that. Better yet, listen to it. Lori Prince does a fantastic job of bringing these two excellent characters to life. I love the way she says Charlotte’s “darling” and I couldn’t wait to hear it again.

Besides, Haley Cass wrote one of the hottest strap-on scenes, and damn is it hot when it’s told directly in your ears… I also love that it’s between a married couple, two women who are parents, because that’s not the kind of representation we often get. I love romance for the falling in love and all the excitement of everything being new and all the potential, but I’m grateful to Cass for seeing this opportunity and making the most of it.

I don’t have much to add to my original review. I’ll just say that I had forgotten how romantic this series of epilogues is and it was really nice to get to enjoy them all over again.
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I didn’t manage to read this shortish sequel to Those Who Wait when it came out, so I decided to get to it as soon as I could after listening to the audiobook version (if you haven’t read my reviews for the book or the audiobook, which are both marvellous, there’s one here and the other here). 

First of all, just the idea of spending more time with Charlotte and Sutton was fantastic. They’ve quickly become one of my favourite lesfic couples, and Forever and a Day, which is actually a series of epilogues, confirms it. It spans a couple of decades and focuses on key moments of their life after they finally saw the light and got together for real. 

And that’s exactly why I love this couple, beyond the fact that both women are sweet and smart and sexy and I can’t get over Charlotte’s “darling” (especially as said by Lori Prince, which is up there with Abby Craden‘s in E. J. Noyes’ Ask, Tell series). They go through happy times and difficult times together, bringing each other strength and support. They find solutions together, they share decisions and victories and losses. And the love! It’s everywhere, every second. In every word, every touch, even in arguments and disagreements. Because yes, they have these too. Their life is not all sunshine and roses, there’s also conflict, as in any relationship. But they tackle issues as adults, talking and sharing, and that doesn’t happen so often in lesfic. On top of that, I already mentioned how sexy the characters and the whole thing are, and I feel like I should also point out that this book includes one of the hottest strap-on scenes I’ve read in a long time outside of erotica. 

I enjoyed these glimpses of Sutton and Charlotte’s life together a lot, despite a few editing bugs. Forever and a Day isn’t as overwhelmingly exciting as Those Who Wait since the falling in love has already happened and that’s what gets my heart going, let’s face it, but it’s like that one last bite of a delicious meal, the one that wraps it up perfectly. I wanted more of Charlotte and Sutton, I’ve had it. Now I can let them go.

Forever and A Day A Those Who Wait Story

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