Name: Stay with Me
ISBN: 9781481488471

Mila Gray

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2015 by Macmillan Publishers International Limited as 'This is one moment'"--Title page verso.

Stay with Me

From the author of Come Back to Me comes a heartwrenching novel about a forbidden romance, a wounded marine, and the girl who’s determined to save him. Didi Monroe has waited her whole life for happily ever after. So when charming Zac Ridgemont sweeps her off her feet, Didi believes she might finally have met the one. Until she begins an internship at a military hospital in California. There she meets wounded marine Noel Walker. Frustrated on the outside and broken on the inside, Walker’s an irritating patient who refuses any care, keeping his distance from everything and everyone—including Didi. Walker is strictly out of bounds. Didi knows this, respects this, but the more she tries to help Walker the closer the two grow. Soon neither one can ignore the sparks flying between them as their attraction simmers into dangerous territory. But Walker doesn’t believe in love or happily ever after—not after what he’s seen. Not after what he’s been through. He doesn’t want to hurt Didi, but he doesn’t want to push her away either. She makes him feel peaceful. Hopeful, even. Then tragedy hits, shattering both their worlds, and Didi realizes that love isn’t as simple as happily ever after. Love isn’t easy. It’s difficult. Messy. Complicated. Now all Didi has to do is decide if it’s worth fighting for.

Alani Lacaci

Mila Gray’s “Stay With Me” is a spin-off of her book “Come Back To Me”. This book can be read as a stand-alone or as a continuation of the series. I loved being able to get a deeper look at Didi from “Come Back To Me”. “Stay With Me” does cover some difficult topics such as PTSD and suicide. If these are triggering topics for you this isn’t a book for you. However, I adored reading Didi’s and Walker’s story and if these topics are not sensitive to you I would highly recommend this book. 

“Stay With Me” follws Didi as she begins an internship at a military hospital. Here she meets Walker. Walker is a Lieutenant in the marines who was injured and blinded in battle and is frustrated and depressed. Didi and Walker quickly become friends and Didi helps him slowly gain a better out look on life. With Didi and Walker getting closer, romantic feelinghs develop. With Didi’s internship, she knows Walker is off limits. Will they be able to respect this and stay just friends? Find out in Mila Gray’s “Stay With Me”.

Kayla Britz

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           Stars:⭐⭐⭐⭐

This military romance was so good. It was an amazing representation of what it's like for soldiers who've been in the war and the struggles they face. It was heartwrenching and brutal to read how Walker struggled to accept what happened and move on but at the same time it was amazing to see how Didi helped him find the light in his darkness.


Further comments including spoilers!!

So towards the end of the novel, one of the characters in the novel (not a MC) commits suicide and while reading I just couldn't understand why the author would add such a sad thing to an already heartbreaking novel, but later on I understood that this was the absolute best representation of what soldiers have to deal with after the war. Suicide rates among veterans are high and that is just another added thing for these people to deal with. The reality is just as heartbreaking as this book.

Tropes: military romance
Grumpy sunshine
A bit of a forbidden romance in the sense of doctor-patient eventhough he is not directly her patient.

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Milana Marie Waller

kid of predictable but rly fast paced 😎😎, it was different ; unique ig good characters 

I wanna read the rest now 🥵