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has a first love, one person they never completely got over, right" Well Erin Edwards never forgot her first love: Nate Lawson, Twentythree years later, she still remembers him and the old feelings, Nate was the only man she truly fell in love with, It doesn't matter if they were teenagers, It was real. It was emotional. And it was heartbreaking when he got away and their relationship abruptly ended over a petty misunderstanding,

Now Erin has a successful career, a beautifulyearold daughter, and a boyfriend who just proposed, Sounds like the good life, right Except Erin still hasn't gotten over Nate, She can't stop thinking of him, Her every thought, literally, is about Nate, She just can't seem to forget the past and move on with her future, There is always something there to remind her, It certainly doesn't help when they happen to cross paths and meet,

The chapters alternate between past and present, I usually don't prefer this writing style, but it flowed in Always Something There to Remind Me, I actually preferred the narration of the main character's past rather than her present, Erin's younger self seemed way more smarter and focused than her adult self, It is even more apparent when Erin gets sound advice from her teenage daughter, Maybe her indecisiveness is why the book sort of moved slow to me, I wanted to just tell Erin to make up her mind already! Stop wallowing in selfpity and get it together, lady!

I am a fan of Beth Harbison, bestselling author of Shoe Addicts Anonymous, Secrets of a Shoe Addict, and Hope in a Jar just to name a few.
She's one of the few chick lit authors that write with more than fluff, There are actually story lines and welldeveloped characters, Always Something There to Remind Me is no exception, I wouldn't call it a pageturner, and doubt the characters will linger around the fiction portion of my brain, And it did drag out because of the character, not the author's writing style, However, the concept and life lesson rings so true, You never forget your first love, or the one that got away, It leaves you wondering about your own past experiences or lost love, Hmmm, what if

Literary Marie of Precision s Beth Harbison is very hit and miss for me, I sometimes really enjoy her books Shoe Addicts and other times am disappointed Hope in a Jar, This is one of the disappointments,

I am sure that most of us have the WhatIf guy/girl, where we wonder what would have happened had we stayed with him/her, Harbison takes this to the extreme with her characters, Erin and Nate,

Erin and Nate meet and fall in love as teenagers, They share a connection that is not often found at that age, but Erin doesn't trust that this could be everlasting love and wants to date others, Nate does not take that well and they break up, Despite efforts to reconnect during high school, they end up not meeting again until overyears later,

Erin has never forgotten Nate and wonders what might have been,

Overall, this is an old tale, Really old. And there's just nothing fresh here about it, It's predictable, it's mundane, and to be honest, the characters are just not that likable, I find myself feeling sorry for the significant others over the two main characters, I can't recommend it. Overall I really enjoyed this book, The writing was light, fun and REAL, Beth created a story around a young woman named Erin, who was recently proposed to, Erin then reflects upon her first love,

The book toggles between past and present until eventually her past catches up to her, The ending was sweet, if anything maybe a little too optimistic for the situation,
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I might have preferred for her to have ended with the more mature relationship, Rick, rather than reverting to her high school sweetheart, But it definitely provided an overall closure for the character,

The self reflection on Erin's part definitely put a lot of perspective on a woman's first love, For those that ever wondered about the past, this book is for you!

This is not the first book that I've read by Beth and it definitely won't be the last.
Every woman remembers her first love, Maybe it was college, high school, or even younger, And after we grow up, some of us wonder what he is doing now, and others of us think What if or If only I could go back.
No heartbreak is quite as terrible as the first one, and that experience changes some of us, for better or for worse, Beth Harbison's book, Always Something There to Remind Me, takes the reader on a journey through many moments in her own past as it tells the story of Erin Edwards.


Chapters alternate for the most part between present day adult Erin, told in first person, and the past's Erin, told in third person, We learn how the past has shaped the woman she has become, In high school, Erin is madly in love with Nate Lawson, and he feels the same way about her, The problem is that they have found each other too early in life and things just don't last, Over twenty years later, Erin has a daughter, by a man she wasn't in love with, and is now dating the perfect guy, Rick is handsome, considerate, well able to provide for a family, and he loves Erin and wants to marry her, The only problem is that he isn't Nate,

The loss of her only love has defined Erin's life, She doesn't let anyone get too close, pushing them away when they cross that invisible line, And then something happens. Nate suddenly reappears in her life, and Erin feels the same way she used to as a teenager, But things are complicated now, Erin has her daughter, Camille, and Rick, while Nate has a complicated situation of his own, The book does have a happy ending, giving credence to true love, And although the ending was satisfying, it was completely unrealistic,

Beth Harbison wrote Erin's story with such emotion that it really did take me back, I can still remember the excruciating heartbreak that went on for years after my first love cast me aside, I'd see him out somewhere, then cry all night long and wake up with a sinus infection the next morning and have no voice left, Not that I'd ever want him back I'm very happy and in love with my husband, The point is that I can remember the pain in vivid detail, which the author captured extremely well in telling this story, It was also a very quick, entertaining read that I was able to almost finish in one sitting, Chick lit isn't my usual genre, but this book was recommended to me, and I did enjoy it, I officially give up on Beth Harbison, "Hope in a Jar" was bad enough, but I couldn't even make myself power through this tripe, I got about/of the way through and just stopped caring about what happened to anyone in the book, None of it made any logical sense who thinks of their high school boyfriend in the middle of a proposal from their current hot, sweet boyfriendyears later! and I did not find the main character it has beendays since I stopped reading this book, and I honestly cannot remember this character's name.
She is that forgettable! relateable in any way, I'm also slightly bitter that I now have "Always Something There to Remind Me" playing on a loop in my head, and I really hate that song! Who keeps paying Beth Harbison to churn out this stuff Very glad I didn't pay for it myself! Due to release this summer is Beth Harbison's latest novel, Always Something There to Remind Me.
Harbison's recent success as a bestselling novelist is helping to bring her debut, Shoe Addicts Anonymousto the big screen soon!

Always Something There to Remind Me is about the life of Erin Edwards, featuring two parallel storylines that jump between her teenage years during thes and the presentday as a single mother in her late thirties.
When Erin's current hotbutdull boyfriend proposes marriage, Erin instantly thinks of her high school sweetheart Nate Lawson, with whom she broke up with after having a simple miscommunication, Of course, since Erin can't stop thinking about Nate, she attempts to track him down and makes a few awkward discoveries, Erin learns that in order to ultimately be happy, she must be true to her heart,

Always Something There to Remind Me is definitely Harbison's most touching novel yet, While the plot is not pictureperfect, the story itself is wildly romantic and endearing, Thes flashbacks are awfully repetitive and tiring at times as each chapter commences with heavy petting, crazy teenage sex, and endless "I love yous" however the end result is worth your while and you'll definitely forget how exasperated you were while reading these scenes.
I especially like Erin's take on choosing to be a single mother and the concept of being alone and in love rather than being forced to spend time married to someone you're not entirely crazy about.


My favorite part of the novel is when the presentday Erin speaks with an elderly woman about the woman's deceased husband, The old woman remarks on how important it is to "try" many different men until you can find the one you can "stay" in love with, Definitely a true statement!

My least favorite part of the novel is the highly theatrical and unrealistic scene regarding Erin and Nate's "reunion" in presentday, No spoilers here, read the novel to see what I mean!, quick, easy read, however, the main character is an idiot, Erin Edwards is a typical girl with crushes, Only that she only wants one boy,Nate Lawson, Not because he is extremely gorgeous or a bad reckless guy like the movies, Rather it is because he is unlike his friend Todd who is notorious for being a player, Previously she had a history with him,knowing that it led nowhere but a one night stand,

Nate is different from him,she likes the chase of him being not taken, Thus when he confirms her suspicions,she is drawn to him like a magnet and the two of them become inseparable,

Shifting the past to the present,Erin is engaged to a man she does not really love, Nate has been consuming her mind ,though it has beenyears since the last time she laid eyes on him, Now she is stuck with an impending proposal and a choice between going with her heart or making amends with Nate, Desperately trying to repair the broken pieces,Erin must decide who is more important, Is it Nate her ex who left her or her current relationship It seems like an impossible choice,and it only gets harder when she realizes Nate moved on.
Told with brilliant consistency,this book took me by surprise!

I am a very picky rater,let me start of with that, Seldom do I round books to fives,but what impressed me about this book was how relatable it was, Nostalgia was apparent,it somehow reminded me of high school, Did it have perfect characterization No, Was the story cheesy and unbelievable You know it! So why the five Cause I couldn't pull away from it,also the author did a terrific job comparing the Past to the Present.
Furthermore,the ending was a beautiful cliffhanger,really hope there is a sequel!

Really good book,love it when books unexpectedly surprise me! Very disappointed in this one, and I had really enjoyed her Shoe Addicts series.
It started out well, with the backandforth stories about teenaged Erin and grown up Erin dealing with their daytoday lives, Grown up Erin's absolutelyperfectineveryway boyfriend gorgeous, successful, widowed father to a daughter who is best friends with Erin's fifteenyearold daughter, etc, etc. asks her to marry him, Erin, completely blindsided why is not exactly clearwhere did she honestly imagine this relationship was going finds she can't give him an answerindeed, she is suddenly in a complete and total panicbecause all she can think about is her boyfriend of two years whom she broke up with twentythree years ago.
Yep, twentythree years ago. She hasn't thought of him in ages by her own admission, but suddenly there he is, a giant roadblock in the way of her giving perfect Rick his answer.
Okay, Nate was her first in every sense of the world, . . but seriously

Then the agony begins, We hear all about Erin and Nate's relationshipthey had a three year age difference, met when she was fifteen, and pretty much instantly started an intense relationship which wouldn't have been appropriate even for two people in their late teens/ early twenties.
Erin lived and breathed her relationship with this guy, They declared their love. They talked of forever and marriage, They spent not only every day, but many nights together, That wasn't enough for Erin, though, because she wanted to spend more time with just Nate on "real" dates and less time out with him and his friends, She wanted to have a "normal" teenage experience, which for her meant crushing on and even going out with other guys which she did, with his okay but at the same time having Nate do grand gestures for her a la John Cusak's famous Say Anything boombox scene.


She was amazingly selfish and

immature, not surprising for a fifteen/sixteenyearold, but that selfabsorption continued into her older self as well, She admits as an adult that she had not treated Nate well back then, but turns around and doesn't act any better in the present time either, It's always what Nate did to her and how she suffered, with no real remorse for what she has done to him and is doing to Rick, Oh, she says she's sorry, but her actions and completely selfindulgent, obsessive, and inappropriate inner monologue tell another story,

It was very frustrating to read, and ultimately, just not believable, Her best friend's advice throughout as an adult she's a psychologist just doesn't seem like that of a trained professional, Erin's relationship with her daughter Cam doesn't seem like that of a real mother and daughter, For much of the novel, Erin doesn't "read" as someone capable of seeing to her own emotional and developmental needs, let alone be responsible for someone else's, . . just which one of them is in charge in that household Setting a good example Holding a realistic view of love and relationships It is unclear, All in all, it was aggravating to read, It got two because it did have its moments and I did enjoy hearing the interview with the author at the end, but I really don't know that I'll be in a hurry to read anything new from this author in the future.


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