When I Was Yours by Samantha Towle * Blog Tour * Review * Giveaway * Playlist * Excerpt

Posted November 13, 2015 by Yesi in Blog Tour, Book Reviews / 0 Comments

“Marry me.”

“What?” I stared back at him, unblinking.

He moved closer, taking my face in his hands. “I love you, Evie. I look into the future, and the only thing I see clearly is you. Marry me.”

What’s an eighteen-year-old girl who was madly in love with her nineteen-year-old boyfriend say?

Of course, I said yes.

Twenty-four hours later, I married Adam Gunner at a Vegas chapel to the sounds of “Livin’ on a Prayer” by Bon Jovi. Not the best omen. I get that now.

Then, exactly one week later, I left him. I walked out, leaving behind my wedding ring, annulment papers, and my heart, and he never knew why.

I haven’t seen him since. Not in ten long years.

Now, he’s here, standing before me. Looking at me with nothing but hurt and hatred in his eyes, he wants answers.

Answers I can’t give.

Release Date: November 10, 2015

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Yesi’s Thoughts

Here’s the thing about second chance romances, for me at least, either you love the characters enough to root for them, to see them fight for what they once had, and you whole-heartedly believe that they are meant to be or you simply read and keep reading for the sake of finding out how they get back to together. Well in the case of When I Was Yours, I can say without a shadow of a doubt, that I was one hundred percent a believer in their one-in-a-lifetime love and that they truly deserved a second chance. I think I was fully invested not even from the the first chapter, but from the synopsis! I mean, WOW. If ever there was a hook, this was it “Marry me” and the words “hurt and hatred” in the same blurb, yeah, I NEEDED this book like I needed my next breath. Then, when I actually started reading it, I was in, full force, in.

“All I have done for the last decade is exist inside the haze of my memories of her.”

Adam Gunner and Evie Taylor have a story like no other, young, all-consuming love that has them getting married at 18 and 19 years old. So crazy, yet the way that Samantha Towle lets their story unfold, in the past and in the present, it makes the reader truly believe that their love stands a fighting chance. I am normally not a huge fan of the past and present but in this case, I loved it. While at times I wanted to fast forward, the fact that it starts in the present, with Adam in not the best of situations, and that he and Evie have a run in pretty early on, I knew the wait would be worth it. The angst is on high from the very beginning, but when their story begins to unfold in the past, I was equally swooning as much as I was grieving for their love lost in the present.

‘”I should have known from the moment I met her that, eventually, she’d be my downfall. I mean, I am Adam, and she’s my fucking Eve. It had been written in the cards.”

When I Was Yours is the perfect blend of young love, sweet moments, romance, scorching hot chemistry, angst, heartache, and second chances. I was emotionally invested from the very first page and each chapter held my heart captive until the very end. This is one of the best second chance romances that I have read and when a book leaves me longing for more, so much more, I know that it is pure gold.

“And for that wondrous brief moment in time, she was mine, and I was hers.”

Adam POV

Making my way through the hotel, I exchange pleasantries with the staff on duty. When I reach the coffee shop, I push open the door and step straight into the past.

Evie.

She’s standing behind the counter. Her face is turned slightly to the right, her attention on the TV mounted on the wall, and her hair is pulled back into a ponytail.

But it’s her.

I feel like a speeding train has hit me, and I’m pretty sure my heart has stopped beating.

It’s really her.

She’s here.

“Evie?” I breathe out her name, like I’m taking my first real breath in a very long time.

Her body stiffens at the sound of my voice. And I watch as her face turns my way. Those big whiskey-colored eyes that I fell in love with all those years ago meet mine, and my world stands still.

Evie POV

My eyes rake over him as I remember the Adam I knew ten years ago and compare him to the Adam I see before me. The long hair is gone, replaced with cropped locks. The unshaven scruff on his face is still very much there though. At least some things haven’t changed.

“You cut your hair.”

“It has been ten years.”

“I know. I just…I remember a time when you said you’d never cut your hair.” A small smile touches my lips at the memory.

“Yeah, and I remember when you promised to love me till death do us part. Shit changes.”

My smile drops from my face. My cheeks sting like he’s just slapped me.

I deserved that. Doesn’t stop it from hurting like a bitch though.

New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and international bestselling author Samantha Towle began her first novel in 2008 while on maternity leave. She completed the manuscript five months later and hasn’t stopped writing since.

She has written contemporary romances, THE MIGHTY STORM, WETHERING THE STORM, TAMING THE STORM, TROUBLE, REVVED and REVIVED.

She has also written paranormal romances, THE BRINGER and the ALEXANDRA JONES SERIES, all penned to tunes of The Killers, Kings of Leon, Adele, The Doors, Oasis, Fleetwood Mac, and more of her favourite musicians.

A native of Hull and a graduate of Salford University, she lives with her husband, Craig, in East Yorkshire with their son and daughter.

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