GRR Reviews Always and Forever by Soraya Lane

Always and Forever is about a couple suffering an almost unbearable choice, then the FMC became absolutely unbearable due to depression.

Lisa and Matt had a dream house and a dream marriage, and a child coming soon. Until they were forced to make an impossible choice: she has cancer, and she can't be pregnant while getting operations and chemo follow-ups. They reluctantly terminated the pregnancy, hoping for a chance to try again when she's healthier. When the doctor was forced to take away her ability to ever be pregnant, Lisa fell into a deep depression, and Matt was utterly lost on how to get his wife back, and the only thing that he can think of was a road trip... to place they have been, to place where they fell in love... in the hopes of rekindling a relationship that may have been already lost...

While I cannot claim to understand depression, Lisa just came across unreasonable, with not quite enough torment in her heart that causes her to push everybody away, and Matt came across as bending over backward until the back of his head is about to hit the ground. Eh... But then, I am a guy. However, I do recognize the power of emotional wounds are raw and the story can be enjoyable, not the happy kind, but the weepy kind. And in the end, that is what you want in a novel right? That you want to feel something different?

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: A woman forced to make an unbearable sacrifice fell into a deep depression; her husband must figure a way to reconnect

Tropes: on the rocks, PTSD, grief, road trip, reunion

Overall Rating: 4/5