Book Review: Left of Forever

I have become a big Tarah DeWitt fan this year starting with Funny Feelings, which is one of my top reads for the year. It might even make it to be my top read of the year, but we’ll see! I read Savor It back in the fall and that was the first Spunes novel. I had heard a lot of people say the 2nd book in the series, Left of Forever, was their favorite so I was excited to read it. I finally read it last week and Ellis and Wren have my heart!

The novel follows Ellis and Wren Byrd. Ellis is the eldest brother to Sage from Savor It and Wren is his ex-wife and best friend to Sage. Ellis and Sage were very close growing up together. They started dating as teenagers and ended up getting pregnant and married right out of high school. After many happy years together things started to get really tough. Setbacks in their personal lives, obstacles in growing their family, stress from their jobs (Wren is a baker and owns a bakery with her mom and Ellis is a firefighter where wildfires can run rampant), and they made the difficult decision to divorce. Now 5 years have gone by, they’ve tried to avoid each other as much as they can when they live in a small town, share a son, and their families are still so close and intertwined.

They may be divorced, but secretly they are both still in love with the other and wish they could find a way back to each other. When their son, Sam, gets into college in California, they decide to go on a road trip together. They will go to California from Oregon to drop Sam off at school and then take their time driving back together. They will sightsee, spend time on the California coast, go glamping, stay at a vineyard, etc. and see if they can find their way back to one another and get a second chance together.

I loved this book. The love Ellis and Wren have for one another is so deep. Yes, it’s complicated and they’ve been through so much, but they are still so in love with each other. The yearning in this novel is so delicious and you’re just rooting for them the entire time. Parts of the book made me really emotional, but the last lines of the book really had me crying! I want so much more of Ellis and Wren and the rest of the Byrds.

Read this if you want a spicy contemporary romance novel with the second chance romance trope.

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