Eighteen-year-old Olivia Lindstrom is ready to start the rest of her life in a world she sees as wide-open to accomplish her limitless dreams. A gifted musician, she wants nothing more than to study music, improve her skills, and later pursue a dedicated career. Her biggest concerns about starting college are missing her parents and worrying about her grade point average. That is, until she meets … meets Derek Salazar, and becomes drawn into a new world. Derek Salazar’s life has been the opposite of Olivia’s in every way. He is amused by Olivia and enticed by her naive innocence and innate goodness. When she assumes he is just another new college student, and he doesn’t correct her, but secretly decides to take advantage of the strange, beautiful girl, he soon finds out she is like no one he has ever met. Through her total trust and loyalty, she starts to influence him into changing the corrupt way he lives. But Derek’s life contains dark secrets that he realizes, too late, could harm Olivia. What started off with careless lies could turn into the greatest love of his life; that is, if he can stop the external forces that threaten to destroy it all.
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Recommended Reading Order for The Sister Series:
The Other Sister-Jessie
The Years Between (Jessie & Will)
The Good Sister-Lindsey
The Best Friend-Gretchen
The Wrong Sister-Tracy
The Years After-Olivia
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Olivia’s story broke my heart. We meet her as 18 year old college freshman, but if you’ve read the earlier book, The Best Friend, you probably know her as the sweet, hurting 8 year old who brought Bridget and Tony together. Here, she a brilliant, naive young woman who just wants to work hard and begin her future. She’s broadsided by handsome, world-wise young Derek, who is definitely not as he seems. Their story is not for the faint of heart. So much drama, angst and betrayal! I couldn’t imagine how they’d ever find their way to a true relationship. However, once again, Ms Davis brings her readers along on a bruising and beautiful story rich with forgiveness, unconditional love and a shot at redemption!
Fifth story in the Sister series, The Years After isn’t my favorite in the series but it’s a good story and an integral point. Cousins Olivia, Kylie and Ally are in college. Each girl is so different in their quest to break loose and live a little or a lot. Kylie and Ally take living it up to crazy levels. Olivia on the other hand, is the socially awkward band geek who’s never been kissed. An accidental run-in with a hot guy, the most unlikely chance meeting, and her whole world is turned on its axis. Derek is mysterious and the embodiment of everything she doesn’t normally indulge in. An unlikely pair, a shy and introverted college freshman and a bold young man with a sordid past and dangerous secrets that threatens everything they fought to hold together. Recommended read because Leanne Davis never disappoints. Totally emotional reads every time.
I love Derek and Olivia so much ..this book was so emotional and captivating…I couldn’t put it down ..can’t wait to read more of this series…this I must read book hurry and get this book you won’t regret it..
The Years After (Sister Series, #5)
by Leanne Davis
I love a story that feels like it could happen to anyone and everyone. The main characters are well fleshed out and multidimensional. I love this book, I know you will too.
Oliva is an innocent girl who is in her freshman year at a college where she can study and play her music. She doesn’t really understand love and how relationships work. She falls off her bike in front of a cute boy, things got real for her fast.
Derek is more than just a bad boy, he deals drugs. He has been selling since he was very young. When a cute girl wipes out her bike in front of him, he feels attracted to her in a way he isn’t aware he could. He has never had a relationship, his whole family is broken.
What will happen? Do they get a happy ever after? Well, you will need to read the book and find out.
I give this book a 5 out of 5 stars.
Thank you
Celtic
This is a very intense read! The trials and tribulations that Olivia and Derek have gone through is heartbreaking in my opinion. Both were raised very differently. Some actions of Derek’s had me seething mad!! Good, but intense!
For what he was, Derek was so respectful to Olivia and her family. He went out of his way to keep people from harming her. Was he innocent? No. But she wasn’t as innocent as she was portrayed. I think that got to me a little. I think he needed to grow up and learn some things, but not as atonement. I understand how people are in grief, but I think he was treated harsher than he should have been under the circumstances.
This is book 5 in the Sister’s series, but this is the first book I have read in the series. This one is about Olivia, who is a college freshman, living on campus in a dorm with one of her cousins. She literally runs into Derek. These two have had the opposite type of upbringings, and of course opposites attract. Olivia is from a loving family, Derek has never been shown love or had it until he gets with Olivia. Of course he knows he shouldn’t be with her, but he can’t seem to stop himself, and tries to keep her out of his dark life. Tragedy strikes when the two worlds collide. The love and compassion Olivia’s Dad shows Derek during this is a testament to the very strong, loving, and forgiving man he is. Lots of ups and downs in the book, and I continued rooting for Derek and hoped he could get away from his old life. I would love to have a follow up story on Derek and Olivia several years later!! Looking forward to more and to reading the other books in this series!
Great read. Olivia has met Derek and though she seems a bit naive, their story is sweet. Really can’t complain because anything Leanne Davis writes is amazing. Fantastic book and highly recommended.
Olivia Lindstrom is attending college with her cousins and it is the first time living away from her parents. She loves playing music and has always been a good girl after watching things happen with members of her extended family.
Derek Salazar has never really had a family, except for his brother Max who he protects as much as he can. Unfortunately life has not been easy for Derek and he has been selling drugs for as long as he can remember and is frequently supplying to the college kids.
When Derek first sees Olivia there is something about her that draws him in although he knows he is not the guy for her. Unfortunately Derek can not stay away from her but what will happen when Olivia discovers the truth about him?
This was a great book and I loved getting to know a grown up Olivia!
I thought Olivia was a great character and I thought it was perfect that she was such a good girl after everything she had been through when she was younger. I wasn’t surprised she fell for Derek so fast as it sounded like she never had much attention from boys before and this was a really hot guy who was after her.
Derek was a much more complex character as he was stuck in a place where he didn’t want to be but he had no way of escaping. Meeting Olivia showed him a different world that he truly wanted to be a part of but at the same time he knew he couldn’t give up selling drugs with what was held over his head. But no matter what Derek felt for Olivia he knew he had to protect Max and try to keep him out of the life he found himself in.
There was so much chemistry between Olivia and Derek and you wanted Derek to give up everything bad in his life but at the same time you knew things were going to blow up and you held your breath waiting for everything to happen. Olivia opened herself up to Derek so much and in so many ways that I wondered if she would recover when everything came crashing down.
I was actually shocked at what happened and I was so mad at Quentrell and even more so as the story went on and we learned more about him and his relationship with Derek and Max. When everything crashed I crossed my fingers Quentrell would pay.
I love how far Tony, Olivia’s dad, was still willing to go for Derek and Max and how he brought them out to Lindsay and Noah to get the help they needed!
The end was so good and I don’t think this is the last of Olivia and Derek that we will see!
I enjoyed the story but this was my least favorite of the series. I had a hard time getting into it. Found it hard to believe that she was so naive to accept everything at face value even when she questioned some thing. She justified it in her mind and that bothered me. I like how it was resolved and still liked the story. Will still read more.
This is book 5 in the Sisters series. Oh man it didn’t disappoint. We have met Olivia in a previous book and now she is 18. Olivia meets Derek by chance when he is doing a drug deal. Of course she doesn’t know it. They start to get to know each other and fall in love. There were so many ups and downs, i was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what was next. This is a good one. It will tug at your hearts strings.
Olivia’s all grown up and her story is just as emotional as the rest. Who ever thinks their first love with be a drug dealer? The ups and downs. His tragic up brining. As it progresses, it makes my heart better.
This is Olivia story all grown up (tony & Gretchen’s daughter) another emotional book! This is book 5! Derek is the guy she meets and there’s emotion and lies be told. This book will tug your heart and I’m looking forward to reading more!
This book had some hard parts in it. Real life but it can be hard to swallow for sure. One with a bad history and one he is still trying to figure out how to keep doing what he is doing with out loosing the one thing that has been good in his life. Even though he should of walked away long ago. She was young and a good girl but she felt a pull and she couldn’t let it go. Of course you know how the story goes everything catches up with you and when it does life as it is falls apart. Trying to build it up is sometimes something that just doesn’t work. I loved how the author really made us feel for both main people and this is not an easy taste when writing on a story like this. Great job.
A story of new first love that goes awry when secrets are kept. Once again Leanne Davis delivers characters and a story line that feel real.
I don’t know how it’s possible but they keep getting better!!! This series is awesome but Derek and Olivia’s story was just WOW!!! WARNING…STOP EVERYTHING IN LIFE CAUSE YOU CANNOT PUT THIS DOWN!!! No cliffhanger although I’d love to know what is next for them. This is a story of faith, tragedy, love, family, drugs, betrayal, neglect, abuse,etc.
Another great book. The topic is so intense. Love the way this story is told and how the characters are interlinked. Just love this series.
This was a tough one for me. I had a really hard time getting into this book and at 29% had a big talk with myself. I was hung up on the 8 year old Olivia in book 3 and not 18 year old Olivia now. I knew the girl was headed for heartbreak and wanted to protect her. After I “forgot” about the 8 year old I enjoyed it more. I ugly cried more than once for all that Derek endured growing up and fell in love with Tony even more for how he handled everything.
I enjoyed the story. Olivia and Derek learns about the world differently. Olivia grows up with loving adoptive parents and Derek grows up with abusive, drugged out parents. It’s a story of first love, betrayal, love and redemption.
Angsty, heart breaking storyline, young beautiful heroine, good, smart strong. Dark, loving antihero. They meet, fall, love, struggle, cope. Well written, modern Angsty story. Recomended.