So I’ve been holding off writing this review for over a week now. Not because the book was horrible and I didn’t know what to say. Completely the opposite. Here with Me is so phenomenally epic, I don’t know what to say. When you absolutely love a book, it’s sometimes hard to put into words what it does to you. You want everyone else to read it but you’re not sure if you could do the book justice. You just want to say to people “Read this book, you won’t regret it.”
I can talk and talk and talk how awesome Heidi McLaughlin is. I fell in love with her and her writing when I met Liam Page in Forever My Girl. And each book I’ve read, I’ve fallen even further. But with Here with Me, she outdid herself.
Ryley is the type of character you fall in love with immediately. You feel for her and everything she has gone through. In a lot of other books, if the main character ended up with the brother of the love of her life, no matter what the circumstances are, it doesn’t feel right to the reader. But in Here with Me, it made sense. You understood it. And then when Evan comes back, you feel and understand every emotion she goes through. Heidi made it feel like you were Ryley. That’s how well written it is. I felt the same ups and downs, turned inside out, upside down right alongside with Ryley. It takes true talent with words to do that to the reader.
I can talk and talk and talk how awesome Heidi McLaughlin is. I fell in love with her and her writing when I met Liam Page in Forever My Girl. And each book I’ve read, I’ve fallen even further. But with Here with Me, she outdid herself.
Ryley is the type of character you fall in love with immediately. You feel for her and everything she has gone through. In a lot of other books, if the main character ended up with the brother of the love of her life, no matter what the circumstances are, it doesn’t feel right to the reader. But in Here with Me, it made sense. You understood it. And then when Evan comes back, you feel and understand every emotion she goes through. Heidi made it feel like you were Ryley. That’s how well written it is. I felt the same ups and downs, turned inside out, upside down right alongside with Ryley. It takes true talent with words to do that to the reader.
Heidi just amazed me with this book. I loved the first few chapters and how she told the story. I loved how the amount of emotion she brought out in me with just her words.
So really, I just want to say “read this book, you won’t regret it.” It has made its way into my top 5 books of 2014. And left me wanting more from the Archer brothers.
~Katie
So really, I just want to say “read this book, you won’t regret it.” It has made its way into my top 5 books of 2014. And left me wanting more from the Archer brothers.
~Katie