5 Years Later (True Hearts #1)

The story line was okay. The timeline kept jumping all over and it was hard to keep following it. For a woman to hold out on a man who did what he did to her. Does she think so low of herself to wait for one man who kills her spirit every time they get together? Sex so hot that is all they do after all the time passed and the bad way he leaves things? Not worth the money. Sorry.

I gave this 2 stars because I liked the book a little but I couldn\’t get passed how weak Lily (the h) was. She was literally a pathetic doormat. Aiden, our H, leaves her multiple times throughout the book. Always with excuses and talking about how he wanted better for her… blah blah blah. But everytime he jumps back into her life, she still lives in a crappy apartment with no boyfriend and other than once, she has a crappy job. She obviously does so well for herself on her own, insert sarcasm. And does she even once tell him to take a hike? Nope. She lets him crash with her until he splits again and doesn\’t think for a second that she deserves better. She just loves him so much, again with the sarcasm. Towards the latter part of the book, Lily finds out that during their recent 5 yrs apart, Aiden slept with his brothers\’ widow and possibly fathered her child. When she finds this out, she yells at him and leaves. I was thinking it\’s about time! Now she\’ll make him grovel and beg before she takes him back. Nope again! The next time she sees him, SHE APOLOGIZES! I mean, come on! I don\’t mind stories where the hero rescues the damsel in distress and stuff but I cannot stand a weak, pathetic doormat of a heroine letting a man get away with everything Aiden got away with and no groveling or anything. It\’s sad that authors write these characters like this. Angst is good when redemption follows. The weak heroine ruined the entire story. How unfortunate because it could\’ve been a great read.

I enjoyed Aiden and Lily but I found it really difficult to follow and keep up with the constant back and forth between past and present. Just when you thought you figured out what was happening the timeline changed again. It became hard to follow with so much of a time span between them. The book has great potential but a little too unorganized for my liking.

I kinda hated the guy in the beginning but until I read his story I felt bad I wanted to cry. And at first I wanted to slap her for wanting to take him back but I loved how it showed their life from past and present to understand their story. Please read this.

This story had my heart aching the whole way through. Such a beautiful, emotional story that squeezes your heart to its limits. I cried so much reading this, but loved it so much. I have never been so moved by words than I am reading a novel by Jaxson Kidman. Lily and Aiden are so beautifully broken together. Life keeps getting in the way of the perfect ending. Every 5 years, they are given another chance at forever that lasts only moments. Will they finally get their forever?

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