Book Review: Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Title: Forever, Interrupted
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Release Date: July 09, 2013
Length: 352 pages
Genre: Adult Fiction, Contemporary
Source: Library
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Have you ever heard of supernovas? They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly, a short burst of extraordinary energy. I like to think you and Ben were like that . . . in that short time, you had more passion than some people have in a lifetime.

Elsie Porter is an average twentysomething and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year's Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one. She isn't expecting to see anyone else in the shop, much less the adorable and charming Ben Ross. Their chemistry is instant and electric. Ben cannot even wait twenty-four hours before asking to see her again. Within weeks, the two are head over heels in love. By May, they've eloped.

Only nine days later, Ben is out riding his bike when he is hit by a truck and killed on impact. Elsie hears the sirens outside her apartment, but by the time she gets downstairs, he has already been whisked off to the emergency room. At the hospital, she must face Susan, the mother-in-law she has never met and who doesn't even know Elsie exists.

Interweaving Elsie and Ben's charmed romance with Elsie and Susan's healing process, Forever, Interrupted will remind you that there's more than one way to find a happy ending.

My Review:

Taylor Jenkins Reid and her novels were recommended to me by Angela @ Musings of a Literary Wanderer and I'm so glad she did! I now have another author that I want to catch up on and read all her books!

Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid is the very sad story of a woman who meets the love of her life, they fall in love very quickly and getting married only a few months later. About a week after they're married, her husband tragically dies in an accident. The rest of the book is about grief, healing and learning that it's okay for your life to move on and to be happy again.

I really loved how Forever, Interrupted went back and forth from the past of when Elsie and Ben first meet and it would take place in the present and Elsie and Ben's mother are trying to heal from their loss. Throughout this healing process, a friendship emerges between Elsie and Susan (Ben's mother) and Reid really focuses on how these two women need each other if they're going to be able to move on with their lives. I also loved the relationship between Elsie and her best friend! Reid depicted a true friendship that can survive the think and thin.

If you really love women's contemporary fiction, then I highly recommend Forever, Interrupted and probably all of Reid's novels even though I haven't read them yet! Taylor Jenkins Reid is definitely an author that I will be reading for many years to come!