Before I Let Go

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Kennedy Ryan's books are like going on a long seafaring voyage and her HEA's are a lighthouse on a hill after a night of tossing and turning on thrashing seas. Just when you think the boat is about to go over and all hope is lost... The light shines through the darkness and someone shouts, "land ho!" And you know.. deep in your soul, everything is going to be alright. Yes, we have taken on water and some damage has been done, we also may now all have PTSD, but when your foot touches land... it's almost ecstasy.

this body gave me my children,” i tell her, sliding down to lift her knees over my shoulders. “and it will always be beautiful to me.” Finding someone you can laugh with when everything hurts was the stuff happily ever afters were made of.”

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Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn’t solve or save everything. i was once again bewitched by Kennedy Ryan's spell in this heart shattering, life altering, nonpareil story that is yet so realistically crude in its rhythmic reflection of the typhoon of hurt, grief, and struggles that real-life married or divorced couples may be englufed in.

But I promise, the lighthouse is there just waiting for you to see it in the darkness. The HEA is worth any pain the journey may cause. although the book is wrapped with a pretty cover, the content is heavily influenced by grief and mental health representation. the book taught me a lot. it gave me valuable insights into how certain individuals tend to tame their life, struggling to go through every day until they reach a point of rupture after finally welcoming their mourning feelings. and how others prefer to sink and drown in their life rather than ever face the overwhelming emotions sewed to their loose. Knew from the beginning of the book it was gonna be 5 stars 💕 Second chance romance is one of my top tropes and I love a good marriage reconciliation!! From the prologue to the epilogue, I was invested and in love with the characters and the writing and the progression. even in that new loneliness, there was a kind of relief to have only one thing to save. not my marriage, but just myself.” Couple that with the fact that Kennedy Ryan – who has been known to bring me to tears a time or two – wrote this book, and I just had a recipe for disaster. I was not in the mood for angsty this week!

Yasmen was IMO an unlikable character. Her whoa is me ways throughout this read was another annoying factor FOR ME. Yes, she lost a child but she wasn't the only one in the relationship that experienced lost. AND yes, I understand that she carried the child and had to go through a still birth delivery so yes I understand her process of loss would be different than Josiah's BUT he lost a child too AND his aunt in close proximity. So why Yasmen walked around this book the way she did irritated my soul. Her accusing the man of not being there for her fully WHEN she would not allow him to be was...something. My heart truly aches for Yasmen and Josiah! They made mistakes. They are far from perfect. They ruined what they’ve worked for. They break each other’s hearts. They evolved. They suffered. They learned from their mistakes. They changed. They burned. They lost. They just try to move on. They lie when they say it gets better. I think maybe I’m just getting stronger, so I feel it a little less.” i absolutely ADORE this woman. the amount of times i wanted to climb into this book and give my strong bb a hug and tell her everything was going to be okay…an infinite amount of times omg. i cannot imagine going through everything this woman went through and having to raise children at the same time. she’s a warrior🥹i admire her so much. the way i was rooting for her in every way possible. i don’t wanna talk too much about it because i’d prefer my besties to go into this book blind like i said earlier hehe, but just know that this woman is one of my favorite fmc’s now🥹