My heart melted a little with that speech he gave Katie. How could she possible resist him after that? And scenes at the end? Well, lets just say they were a little heated. More than I was expecting after so long a wait. All in all, this story was a cute one, even though it was a little frustrating at times and the characters could be infuriating, this really was a nice story about learning to forgive and letting go of past wrongs and to give second chances. Because, we all deserve a second chance once in a while.
Overall I give this one 3. Jun 05, Christi Snow rated it really liked it. My Review: From the moment I read the final line in the prologue and started crying, I knew that I was going to love this book! Her senior year in high school, Katie's father died in a car accident on his way to rescue her after she caught her boyfriend Chris in a compromising position. The heartache of their loss was too much for both Katie and her mother so they left town.
In the ten years since, Katie has not been able to forgive herself or her boyfriend, whom she never saw again, for his deat My Review: From the moment I read the final line in the prologue and started crying, I knew that I was going to love this book!
In the ten years since, Katie has not been able to forgive herself or her boyfriend, whom she never saw again, for his death. The fact was he wouldn't have been on the road that night if Chris hadn't broken her heart It's ten years later and now Katie is a successful lawyer and has moved back to that small town to be the Asst. She's moved past those awful events and put Chris firmly in her past, even though she does think about him occasionally.
What she doesn't expect is for him to still be living in this small town. He too has come back and is now the high school basketball coach. They both thought they'd moved past their feelings, but they were both wrong. Chris immediately knows that she's the one that got away and he wants her back. Over the years, he's forgotten what caused the issues that night to begin with.
But for Katie, her feelings for Chris are so much more complex. She sees him and she's immediately overcome with grief, anger, and deep gut-wrenching longing.
She never dealt with what happened that night It makes for an incredible, emotional read, although I will admit that I hit a point where I simply wanted her to get past it, but that's because I was falling in love with Chris' character too. The book is written almost entirely from Katie's POV, but the few glimpses you get inside Chris' head are so sweet and honest.
He's a guy and he's human. He screws up especially when it comes to women, but his feelings for Katie are so true. You can't help but fall in love with him. On the other hand there's Katie. She trusted him with her whole heart once, but he abused that love. Yes, he was a teenager, but there are definite signs that he could be guilty of the same thing again. You can't blame her for being leery even when her heart is bursting out of her chest in love with him. Like I said, this was just a great read.
There was enough angst to really appeal to my reading loves. I will definitely be watching for more from Kelly Rae. Jun 26, Marissa rated it really liked it. From the prologue, I was intrigued, and immediately, I was interested to see what happened to Katie, and her then boyfriend Chris.
The Prologue basically gives us the incident on how and why Katie broke off things with Chris. Then the first chapter goes to about ten years later, and Katie, now in her late twenties, moves back to her hometown, the town she left ten years prior, but this is a career move. Who does she end up seeing though, her ex, Chris, who is a P. Seeing each other brings memories, for Katie they are bittersweet, as for ten years she had avoided seeing Chris again. There was definitely conflict between Chris and Katie, as they have a lot of unresolved issues to work through, but Katie just seems not to be able forgive Chris.
This story really gives a look on forgiveness, and if we could forgive those that have done wrong to us. It could be so hard, but what does it take to finally to forgive? This was a very good story all in all, really; there were raw scenes here, raw emotions that felt relatable, and I liked reading that, what can be relatable to the reader.
The characters were really well developed. There was a lot of background information, especially focusing on Katie and Chris. They were each other's first love in high school.
He was actually pretty shy, but then comes confident and smart Katie and she brought him out of his shell, and encouraged him to be a better person, to excel in school and sports, and he did that with Katie by his side. I really liked knowing how they were in high school, and how Katie was having doubts on their relationship even before the incident that broke them up.
Having this written in third person was very good; I liked reading what both were sorta thinking, especially Chris, as I well did not really like him in the beginning, but as the story goes on, we see what his thoughts are, and ok I had a more understanding side for him, and was then rooting for them to get together, but do they?
Hmm well you're just going to have to read and find out. This was a well written story, and I can't wait to read more from Kelly Rae. I Recommend this Novel!
After the death of her father Katie and her mother moved away from town. Now ten years later, she is back. And the last person she is expecting to see is there too. What if… is a romance which deals with feelings like forgiveness, grieve and love. This book is supposed to be about two people who were together as teenagers but then, for different After the death of her father Katie and her mother moved away from town. This book is supposed to be about two people who were together as teenagers but then, for different circumstances, they ended up apart.
Once they are reunited as adults they will have to overcome their differences to be together. Her pain and suffering is understandable but most of the time she acts like a seventeen-year-old girl and for me was not believable. Chris is another story; he is supposed to be this amazing man with perfect body and a dream personality. Let me tell you that for moments he is all that but when he is with Katie, he is a horney teenager.
I mean, she makes awful accusations against him and the only thing on his mind is kissing her. I also have to point that it has some scenes that are great with good sexual tension and great dialogues. Jun 13, Cocktails and Books rated it liked it Shelves: reading-challenges , blog-tour , contemporary-romance.
Katie and Chris were high school sweethearts. She asked him out by mistake, but it ended up being the best mistake she ever made. But when his popularity started to rise at school, he started pushing Katie to the back burner for other girls. Their love story came to an abrupt end when Katie catches Chris kissing another girl at a party and calls her father to pick her up. Only her father never makes it to get her, as he's in an accident with a drunk driver.
Fast forward ten years and we find Kati Katie and Chris were high school sweethearts. Fast forward ten years and we find Katie Wright making her way back to her hometown as the new Assistant DA. She's not sure why she needed to take this job, but she has and it's given her a chance to reconnect with her best friend after leaving everything behind after her father died. What If is about letting go of the past, forgiving yourself and trying to make a future with the one person that makes you happy.
Chris and Katie definitely do not have an easy road with their relationship. They have their past relationship to work through, which would be enough, but they also have Katie's grief and the way it's tainted her world to deal with. But Chris is a man who is absolutely determined to win back the heart of the only woman he's over loved, so he's willing to take a lot from Katie almost a little too much in my opinion.
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