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Meet Liv and Danny...
Liv loves Danny. She knows she loves him more than he loves her, so she lets him go without a fight when his parents make him move back to America. She knows she will never love anyone like she loved him, but she has to move on.
Danny loves Liv. He knows he loves her more than she loves him, because she does nothing to get him to stay, so he goes quietly when his parents leave the UK. He knows he will never love anyone like he loved her, but he has to move on.
Twelve years on, they have made a good job of pretending, they may have almost forgotten. But when they get in touch via Facebook, it seems that it is all still there.
They quickly find that they are intensely compatible in ways they hadn’t even begun to explore before they were forced apart.
Can they put aside their fears and give it a go? Or will deep rooted doubts and insecurities tear them apart?
It's a Cliffy - Deal With It!
So, I’m just going to say it: It’s a cliffy, okay?! But before you get all twisted and indignant, let’s think about this. Take a breath and consider all the books you FLOVE that are cliffys: The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden (and no one’s bleeding out at the end of Just Human!!), The Proposition, Fifty Shades of FREAKING Grey!!! Think about those endings. If you are anything like me, you were poking your Kindle hard enough to leave a fingerprint and yelling, “Where’s the next freaking page?!?!” Maybe you tweeted a couple of your Twitter girls and ranted, searched Amazon for the release date of the sequel. I don’t personally know anyone who shrugs and remains unfazed; my book peeps and I don’t roll that way. My point is this: What does your intense need for the next book tell you? It tells you that you connected emotionally with the characters, that maybe you even fell in love, and THAT YOU JUST READ A FREAKING AMAZING BOOK!!!
Are we over the cliffy problem yet? I hope so because if you let that one little thing keep you from your “One-Click” button, you’re going to miss out on a love story that started 23 years ago, when two little 6 year olds met and became best friends; and ended 12 years later when Danny had to move from England back to the US with his family. I say it ended but the “ending” really depends on how you define the word. If you define the end of a relationship as the day you broke up, then Danny and Liv ended when they were 18 years old, 11 long years ago. But what if two people break up unwillingly and are never really able to move on? Did the relationship ever really end? In the case of Danny and Liv, I would argue no, it never really ended. Danny and Liv let each other go, they both moved on, they dated different people, but neither of them ever felt for someone else what they’d once felt for each other. Years passed and then…
The ding of a Facebook message sends both Liv and Danny spiraling back into the past. What would you do if the person you’d never gotten over contacted you out of the blue more than a decade after you’d said goodbye? Would you have the guts to answer? Would you risk your heart again, especially if you’d always believed that you’d loved that person more than they loved you? Well, thank God for us Danny and Liv take the risk and messages start pinging back and forth!
I won’t spoil the ride with all the plot details I’d like to gush about, but I am going to tell you a little about Danny and Liv because, believe me, you want to know these two.
Danny is the freaking sweetest!!! I’m trying not to verbally vomit my love for Danny all over this review, but I FLOVE him, so be patient with me. Danny is funny, smart, hot, and so open and honest that he’ll melt you into a little puddle with one “Can I have a do over?” Facebook message. Yes, Danny, yes you can! And then Chapter Three happens, and I can’t talk about it without getting all teary and spoiling the whole thing, so suffice it to say that Danny is amazing and persistent and determined and sexy and oh-so-freaking edible that you won’t be able to put your Kindle down! Do I have your attention now?
Let’s talk Liv. If you’ve read any of my reviews before, then you know that I need (yes, NEED!) to love my heroine. Honestly, if I don’t like my heroine, then I may still love my book boyfriend/hero, but I will never be able to truly love the book, and I will probably never re-read it. So, imagine how completely over-the-moon happy I was to meet Liv!!! Liv is the badass, sweet-as-they-come, made-of-awesome kind of girl we all wish would be our best friend. I related to Liv. From the first page to the first message to the last page of the book, I stood right next to Liv and felt it all. The fear, the overwhelming love and need—did I mention the fear? I felt like I lived this whole book with Liv; I loved, loved, loved Danny throughout, but I lived the book with Liv. Maybe I identified with her reservations, with her need to protect herself, but holy cow, I also completely identified with the feeling of being helpless to stay away from someone. Liv is my homegirl.
Lest you think this book is all Liv and Danny, Liv and Danny, let me tell you about two other characters that you are going to adore: Max and Jen, Liv and Danny’s best friends (respectively). It almost seems as if Liv and Danny replaced each other with a platonic member of the opposite sex. Max is funny and smart, and completely devoted to Liv. He’s been with Liv through everything since Danny left. They have literally built a life together (though Max is happily ensconced in a relationship with his partner, Charlie), and Max is the person Liv turns to for everything. He is her person.
Danny has his own Max, in the form of Jen. Jen is equally awesome. She doesn’t take any of Danny’s excuses or insecurities; she knows him well enough to push him past his fears. She’s fun and funny and successful (and also happily attached to her husband, Scott), and you’ll wish she was your friend too. In all honesty, I don’t know where Danny and Liv would be without Max and Jen, and I love that about all of them.
Are you getting a clue about how many things there are to love about this book?! Have you “One-Clicked” it yet or what?! Again and again through this book, I fell in love. The heart wants what the heart wants, right? And every now and then it gets what it wants, but the course of true love never did run smooth—isn’t that what they say? And so, there is a cliffy, but tell me: When you read The Proposition and Aiden so epically blew it right at the end, weren’t you thinking, “It can’t end this way?! Aiden’s not going to let her go!” When Anna walked out on Christian in Fifty Shades, weren’t you screaming, “You freaking idiot! You asked for that spanking, now get back in there!” and then, “Hells bells, Christian, go get her!!” And didn’t you know in your heart that Aiden and Christian weren’t going to give up that easy? Wasn’t it that much sweeter in the end when you marked your calendar, pre-ordered, or jumped out of bed on the day of and “One-Clicked” that sequel right onto your phone/iPad/computer/Kindle? Didn’t you love the feeling of ignoring the whole world while you sat all day (and maybe all night) with that book you’d been impatiently waiting for? Come on, you know you tweeted your book peeps first thing in the morning—“Get up!! Today’s the release!!” And again in the middle of the book, “OMFG! 54%! Have you finished yet?!?!” And when you did finish, didn’t you sit drumming your fingers, tapping your foot, waiting for your friends to finish so you could chat about it? A good cliffy leads to AN EVENT of a sequel! And you secretly love it!! So, it shall be with Just Human and its soon-to-be sequel, Still Human. Just you wait. When you’ve loved someone all your life, you don’t shrug and walk away. Keep the faith, girls. There’s more to come (and love).
Mediocre mother
Appalling housewife
Fashion graduate
Wedding coordinator
Sex toy salesperson
Shop manager
Designer
Font collector
Romance addict
Fancier of nice men
Ok, fancier of almost all men
Awesome cupcake baker
Incessant singer
Film buff
Friend
Writer
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