Oh Give Me Yesterday… You beautifully painful monster, you. I jumped in head first, knowing that Give Me Yesterday was supposed to be an ugly cry. These girls aren’t kidding. They don’t break your heart. They pound on it with a dang sledgehammer, and I loved every minute of it. Weird, right? It’s just too addictive to stop, even when it hurts so good.
I’m not going to tell you a thing about these characters or their story, beyond the fact that it’s two people who needed each other. It’s two people who were broken, living everyday but lost within their own worlds, and meeting one another was unexpectedly beautiful. That’s the best I can give you. Anything else and I’ll be toeing that line between giving spoilers or not, and I refuse to even get close to that. You need to experience it all yourself. Immerse yourself in every tear, every laugh, and every thing in between. It’s the story of living and of feeling hopeful in the midst of a heartbreaking past.
I’m not going to tell you a thing about these characters or their story, beyond the fact that it’s two people who needed each other. It’s two people who were broken, living everyday but lost within their own worlds, and meeting one another was unexpectedly beautiful. That’s the best I can give you. Anything else and I’ll be toeing that line between giving spoilers or not, and I refuse to even get close to that. You need to experience it all yourself. Immerse yourself in every tear, every laugh, and every thing in between. It’s the story of living and of feeling hopeful in the midst of a heartbreaking past.
I knew going in that it was an emotional story. The authors are very honest about that. In my mind, an ugly cry will make me bawl like a baby once, then mends my heart until I’m whole again. K. Webster and Elle Christensen didn’t get the memo about that little routine. They smash your heart, put it back together, and then decide to rip it apart again. The craziest part is that throughout it all, I loved the feelings they were evoking. The feeling of falling in love all over again. The anticipation of what was to come. The guessing game of what might happen in the end, and how that prediction twists and turns as the story unfolds. The train wreck that you knew was imminent, yet you couldn’t turn away. So many emotions, and they nailed them all.
I did have one issue, and it might not be a huge deal. I also feel like it’s necessary to point out that I reviewed based on a beta copy, so the one issue mentioned below could very well not exist at this point. I know Elle mentioned that they were working on it, so this may end up as complete, useless jibberish. I hope it does! It might honestly not even cross your mind while reading, and if so, that’s the beauty of reading. We all experience each and every book differently. But for me, it felt almost like it read as two separate novels that occasionally didn’t combine just right. I’d be right in the middle of a scene that was impacting me as a reader, with heartbreak and tears flowing, when suddenly I was thrust into (No pun intended. Okay sort of a pun since it just landed that way.) a sex scene. It felt like there should have been more transition between the two. This seemed to happen a handful of times. It might not be a straight out sex scene, but maybe just a quirky little flirty line that didn’t quite…work. It didn’t fit the scene and it was a smidge jarring to be thrown around that way.
On that same note though, the authors do a great job with both aspects. Their connection and love for one another is palpable. The authors do a phenomenal job of pulling you into their world. When they decide to do sexy, they rock it. They know what they’re doing, and it makes a sensual scene feel even hotter than you can imagine. So where I did mention above that the two seemed to not transition quite right sometimes, it’s still enjoyable, either way.
Overall, I wasn’t prepared to feel as much as I did while reading Give Me Yesterday. It’s a beautiful story of acceptance and love, with two characters who give “meant to be” an entirely new meaning. It’s one of those stories that will stick with you long after the last page, and indeed, it has.
<3 Erin
I did have one issue, and it might not be a huge deal. I also feel like it’s necessary to point out that I reviewed based on a beta copy, so the one issue mentioned below could very well not exist at this point. I know Elle mentioned that they were working on it, so this may end up as complete, useless jibberish. I hope it does! It might honestly not even cross your mind while reading, and if so, that’s the beauty of reading. We all experience each and every book differently. But for me, it felt almost like it read as two separate novels that occasionally didn’t combine just right. I’d be right in the middle of a scene that was impacting me as a reader, with heartbreak and tears flowing, when suddenly I was thrust into (No pun intended. Okay sort of a pun since it just landed that way.) a sex scene. It felt like there should have been more transition between the two. This seemed to happen a handful of times. It might not be a straight out sex scene, but maybe just a quirky little flirty line that didn’t quite…work. It didn’t fit the scene and it was a smidge jarring to be thrown around that way.
On that same note though, the authors do a great job with both aspects. Their connection and love for one another is palpable. The authors do a phenomenal job of pulling you into their world. When they decide to do sexy, they rock it. They know what they’re doing, and it makes a sensual scene feel even hotter than you can imagine. So where I did mention above that the two seemed to not transition quite right sometimes, it’s still enjoyable, either way.
Overall, I wasn’t prepared to feel as much as I did while reading Give Me Yesterday. It’s a beautiful story of acceptance and love, with two characters who give “meant to be” an entirely new meaning. It’s one of those stories that will stick with you long after the last page, and indeed, it has.
<3 Erin