Review | Forever My Girl - Heidi McLaughlin

Forever My Girl by Heidi McLaughlin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Reading Forever My Girl has been a whole new experience for me.
Five minutes after I started reading, I was already crying. I had to read it when I'm about to go to bed so no one will see me.

I really felt for all the characters. While I'm reading, I'm putting myself in their shoes. What if I'm Katelyn? What if I was the one who lost her husband -- the husband who has been my boyfriend since high
school?
"Aunt Joey who is going to watch football with me now?"

"I know," she sighs heavily. "Elle wants to know who is going to tuck her in at night because no one else does it like daddy."

I imagined myself as the twins, who are so very young but already has lost their father. I can't imagine not knowing my father. :,(

"When you love someone, you just know."

Marrying a high school sweetheart was a dream I never thought I had until I read this book. I loved the idea of loving just one person from the start until the very end -- go to college together, marry, then have kids, all with the same person that you have loved for years. So you can imagine all the crying I've done when I read this because this book started with a loved one lost.
It's like after I've finished wiping my face, I'll go to the next page and the tears will start flowing again -- and this was just the start of the book! I thought, that's so mean because I cried half the time I was reading it. I thought my eyes are going to be so puffy when I woke up because I didn't stop reading until 4 am when my head was already throbbing and 4% is all that's left in my reader's battery.

I've never felt so much emotion while reading a book before. I've never lost a loved one before, but when I read this book, I felt like I had lost a best friend, a husband, and a father. And when everything was great in the end, I've never felt so happy for them.

I hated the author for making me cry so much -- but I love her more for writing this awesome (awesome doesn't quite describe it) story. I am so grateful to her for giving me a chance to experience reading such an amazing book. :)

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