For Now and Forever is supposed to be a story about a woman's self-rediscovery alongside a somewhat mysterious companion. However, the story doesn't really make that much sense to start with.
Emily Mitchell is in New York, staying at a soul-sucking job with a horrible boss, with a boyfriend of seven years who has STILL not yet proposed... and she's 35. She remembered living in Maine, in a great old house, until her sister died, her father disappeared, and things were never again the same. When her boyfriend took her out on an anniversary dinner... and only gave her a bottle of perfume instead of a ring, she finally snapped. She broke it off with him, and when her boss gave her the usual dressing down, she quit the job as well... and decided to go to Maine... to see what happened to her old house... one that she hadn't seen in 20 years. She doesn't know what she'll do, but she'll figure it out. She ran into Daniel, the groundskeeper. who has secrets of his own. She decided that since the house used to be a bed and breakfast, she will turn it back into one, with Daniel's help... or not.
The first few chapters were all showing how sucky Emily's life was, that we didn't see Daniel until several chapters into the book, after Emily had basically abandoned everything, cut all ties, burned all the bridges, and went back to her old home just because she got nowhere else to go! That's just... crazy act of desperation. The chemistry wasn't even really there either between Emily and Daniel. It's not even forced cohabitation as he lives in the guesthouse, not the main house! It just didn't make that much sense. I honestly don't see what's so romantic about this. Who paid the property tax in the last 20 years, and so on and so forth?
Category: Contemporary
Primary Plot: Woman tired of status quo snapped and ran off to her old house she hadn't seen in twenty years; found mysterious stranger living there
Tropes: Betrayal, jilted, B&B
Overall Rating: 2/5
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