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Forever Love (Forever Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by J. Lum (Author), Jenn Wood (Editor), Expressive Editing (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

4.6 13 ratings

Book 1 of 1: Forever Series

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To appreciate the sun, you have to withstand the storm.

Free-spirited, poetic Casey Loughlin has had her fair share of rain, and she always manages to see the silver lining. During her teenage years, when she met Toby Cardona, she learned everything she ever needed to learn about love and loss—all in one year.

When Toby lost Casey, everything changed for him. The once caring and endearing boy, with dreams and hopes of his own, became the cold, broken, money-hungry man he swore he'd never be. Now, with Casey back in his life, it's up to her to show Toby that the second time around, love can still hurt, but it's worth every painful prick. Will Toby weather the storm, and embrace a second chance, with the woman he’s always loved?

*** Should be read after Summer Love (A Forever Series Novella) which is FREE

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07DN41BB9
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amazon Digital Services; 1st edition (August 2, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 2, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 649 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 258 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #2,044,227 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,730 in Women's New Adult & College Fiction
- #30,411 in Contemporary Women's Fiction
- #37,062 in Women's Romance Fiction

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Author J. Lum was born and raised in Northern Virginia, but spent most summers visiting new places or in Hawaii, where her family is from. She’s got a bad case of #Wanderlust, so you’ll more than likely find her traveling more than staying put. She is a furbaby mom to a fat, chubby pug named Lani, who is buckets of snoring fun. When you don’t see her hanging and snuggling with her pug, she will more than likely have her head in a book. She absolutely adores second chance and dark romances equally, but will read a wide variety of books. She loves tats, cooking/baking, chocolate and coffee are weaknesses for her.

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Barbara Ronevich

Love this book!

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2018

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Love. Love. Love. J. Lum hooked me with this Couple in Summer Love and I couldn’t wait to continue with their story. This Is a great second chance romance that isn’t bound to give you all the feels. Toby and Casey met years prior and were torn apart by tragic events that are unknown to Toby. He can be a jerk...but who doesn’t love a jerk?!? I promise you won’t regret one clicking this book❤️ ALL. THE. FEELS.

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2018

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As a new author, Jen Lum hits all the marks maybe because she is a voracious reader herself and knows a great story thereby writing it herself. This is a story of young love 💘 that hadn't faded but so how hot tossed aside because, life! Life happens, thanks for making this story happen. AJM💋💞🐕🐕

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2018

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Love the story said story of losing ur family and the boy u fell in love with and having a heart condition.

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Hoyzrus

This book is amazing!!

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2018

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OMG... this book is amazing!! I loved Toby & Casey! I can’t wait for the next book in this series!!

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Good ending to their story

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2022

So I liked how this started. It gave you a small reminder about what happened in the prequel. I thought it showed how much trama Casey had experienced after everything really well. I could understand how she thought leaving Toby was the right decision in her mind at the time. I enjoyed seeing how differently they both grew up and the people they turned into. It was frustrating how Toby refused to just listen to Casey's explanation, but I understood that he was hurt. I did find it pretty unrealistic that he never looked her up after he never heard back from her. The reason I took a star away from this is for 2 reasons: 1) once they talked their relationship went from zero to 100 REAL fast and 2) his overuse of the nickname shorty. I couldnt stand that nickname in the first book, and its use here is just insanely annoying. Everytime I saw the nickname I ended up just skipping over it. These people are supposed to be in their 30s and it's just frustrating whenever I see it.

Overall though, I liked this one better than the prequel and am glad I read it.

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2018

Forever Love gives us hope that true love is never lost.
In Summer Love, we first meet Toby as the brooding image of every teenage girl’s dreams. In Forever Love Toby is still that brooding boy, just all grown up. He is focused on his career, and women are just a hobby. That is until Casey comes back into his life.
Sweet, caring Casey has been focused on running her new business. After leaving the cutthroat business world, she is happy running a quaint bookstore surrounded by her close friends.
When fate brings them both back to the same beach where they fell in love as teenagers, will they be able to put away the pain and realize real love is forever?
The push and pull between Toby and Casey was a bit maddening at times. I found myself yelling at them to just get back together already. You could feel their obvious attraction. Their HEA was exactly what I was hoping for from the start.
Ms. Lum set up some amazing supporting characters, and I can’t wait to get to know their stories as well.

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2018

Absolutely loved it! I love being able to see the growth of an author. J. Lum writes another wonderful story about Casey and Toby. I fell in love with them in Summer Love and now they are adults. I love where she took them in their journey and look forward to her next book.

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TLBC

Emotional and heartwarming story

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2018

My Review

4 Stars!

Wow, this was not what I expected! After reading Summer Love I thought things would be different in this book, but OMG it was so not what I thought. Jen keeps you on the edge of your seat through the whole book. It is angsty and sad, and it has you wanting to throw your Kindle.

After book one Toby has completely changed, and the Toby we get in book 2 is completely broken and very unlikable. There were so many times he pissed me off. Casey really shattered him, and even sixteen years later he never recovered. He never found love and never sought it out.

He is cold, withdrawn and broody whereas his brother and best friend are these great supportive and outgoing guys. Which kind of shows you that he's not really as he seems.
Casey is just as broken, never recovered from her parent's accident and never stopped blaming herself. She thought she saved Toby from herself until she comes face to face with him again. And let the angst begin.
Toby won't have anything to do with Casey, and she just wants to explain. Too much time has passed, and Toby is numb.

"She took a piece of me when she left. It's like feeding an addict a drug, both potent and addictive. Once you have it, you immediately want more."

I loved seeing Toby slowly (very slowly) come to terms with everything and give Casey a chance. If I had one thing to say, it would be that I wanted more of them. I wish their reconnection didn't take as long and we got to see them together more than fighting.

This was very well written and a heartfelt story about two broken people finding their way back.

I really want a book about Ben!!

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