I Love Story TIme's Review for Forgiving Reed

Forgiving Reed by C.A. Harms
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



*** I Love Story Time was gifted an ARC in exchange for an honest review ***

4.5 Stars!!!

This story was the sweetest and saddest story that I have read in a while. It was exactly what I needed. I had tears flowing out of my eyes, and I was only 8% into the story!

Kori is getting over a great loss and becoming a new mom all in one day. One minute she is happily living with Blake and a baby on the way....then the next minute Blake was ripped away from her unexpectedly. She is struggling with getting over the one person she thought she would be spending the rest of her life with....

The loss of Blake was tearing me apart. I didn't know how to come back from this. How did you carry on when you felt so vacant and destroyed? When you felt like half your soul was missing?"

As a new single mom trying to pull herself together Kori decides the best thing for her and her son Rhett, is to move back to her home town with her mom and dad. Being back in her home town she reunites with her best friend Maria. Their friendship starts off right where it left off and Maria is there helping Kori heal from such heartache.

One thing that Kori is not looking forward to is running into her first love Reed. They were high school sweet hearts and she left town after he broke her heart. When she first runs into Reed he can't get a word out. Kori pushes him away instantly. Reed tries to get her to talk to him so that he can apologize for the way things ended with them but she won't give him a chance. As time goes on, and with the help of Maria, Kori realizes that maybe Reed has changed since she last saw him. She notices that he is not the boy she left behind and has turned into a man that was dealing with his own issues that he went through while she was gone. She starts to be nicer to him but also keeps him at a distance. When she is around him the feelings she once held for him start to surface, and she's not the only one that can tell what she's fighting to hide.....


"Don't you dare call me Princess. I'm not some prissy girl, and you know it. What is it with you trying to piss me off all the time? I thought you wanted to be friends?"


"I think the question you need to be asking yourself is why I get under your skin so bad. I don't think anything I do or don't do is the problem. I think it's the feelings they cause in you. Those feelings you can't seem to control, but you're fight so hard to hide."

I Loved Reed!!! He was the sweetest and most loving person when it came to Kori and Rhett. He did everything he could to get her to give him another chance. I was pulling for him the whole way. He knew he had his chance, and regretted messing it up. He knew Kori had loved Blake with all of her heart, and he was willing to live with the knowledge that he will always have a piece of her......

"I know I may not have been her first choice, but I'm gonna do everything I can to take care of her for the rest of our lives."

Reading about Reed and his love for Rhett just melted my heart. I felt so sad for Kori and the struggles she went through when she starts to notice how close Reed is getting to Rhett. Knowing she will never see Rhett with Blake was so hard for her to get past, but she knew that no one would be better for Rhett than Reed was. I loved everything about this story. It was heart breaking, and heart warming. Reed was the whole package!! Loved the parts that he got all crazy with jealousy causing fights in bars and his dirty talk!! SO GOOD!! I would definitely recommend this book and I am looking forward to reading about Maria and Gavin's story!

~Juls


I Love Story Time Ratings:

5+ = ILST FAVORITE!

5 = LOVED, HIGHLY recommend.

4 = REALLY liked, recommend.

3 = GOOD, but needed more.

2 = It was OKAY.

1 = NOT for me.

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