Life doesn’t always start with once upon a time. Love doesn’t always end with happily ever after.After spending five years with the love of my life, I did nothing to stop her from walking away. She had her reasons to leave. I had my reasons to stay. But a year later, the realization of loss hits me, and I’ll stop at nothing to fix it. I leave everything behind to drive across the country to win … country to win her back, and I refuse to accept anything other than fulfilling old promises.
But the only certainty in life is: nothing is as expected.
The most valuable lessons don’t often revolve around a fairytale ending—frequently, they come from hurt and healing. They come from the kind of personal growth love offers. The mending of your heart, your soul, and your life. And every once in a while, you find the greatest gifts in the packages you never expected to open.
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Damn you Leddy Harper!!! You really should warn a woman that you’re going to make her sob until she can’t see the words you’ve written…
This book is gorgeous. This story is gorgeous. This writing is gorgeous.
I bought this book, months ago, and bought it solely based on its cover and title alone! I don’t even care if you judge me….. Once I purchased it I read the synopsis :p
Having never read anything of Leddy Harper’s before, I wasn’t sure what I was in for. Well! I have been sucked in and am a proud follower now. My credit card is going to be taking a massive hit!
The story of Creed and Laney is true love at its finest – or as Leddy Harper calls it…. Eminent Love. It is heart thumping, pulse racing and soul destroying; and then the cycle all over again.
I loved how the story went between past and present, as it gave the reader a real insight into their entire journey, without it feeling rushed. I would read the present and be so anxious to get to the past, so I could see how Creed and Laney ended up where they were.
I had no idea that this book was going to be so emotional, so was not at all prepared! I didn’t have tissues at the ready. I didn’t have Panadol at the ready, for my poor sobbing induced headache. All I had was my open heart and, boy, did it feel sore and loved all at the same time…. Did you even know that you could feel those two things simultaneously?!
I’m not sure that I even have any more words to write about how brilliant this book is. My instinct on the cover and title was well and truly correct though!
If you haven’t read Leddy Harper’s work before – get on it!
Eminent Love is a beautiful love story told in the Then and Now. Creed Wallace fell in instant love with Layne Cooper, when her twin sister and his best friend plus roommate, set them up on a blind date. Creed was 21 and junior college student with dreams of going to Duke University as a law student. Layne was an 18 year old who was studying graphic design. She also was a cancer survivor who had never even dated, and was now ready to find her first love.
THE THEN Was my favorite part of the book. It was instant love that neither Creed or Layne understood. Creed: “I can’t for the life of me figure out why I’m so intrigued by you. I’ve never felt this way before. It’s like you stepped out of the restaurant and my whole world changed. Trust me, I wish I understood. But I don’t.” They only knew that they wanted to be together. She felt as incomplete without him as he felt without her, and he never wanted to let her go. She fit perfectly, and it was where he always wanted her to be. He knew he wanted to wake next to her for the rest of his life, and wanted her next to him when we fell asleep. For 5 years they shared an epic love story, they couldn’t imagine a future not together. Tomorrows aren’t promised, although it doesn’t mean you can’t plan for them while enjoying your todays.
THE NOW Was the heart-breaking and tear jerking part of the book. Creed: “Our smiles were genuine. I never thought they’d disappear. The way she fit in my arms, tucked perfectly against me…like she had been made specifically for me and I for her. I could never imagined it any other way. Until I had no choice. Until my arms were empty, her absence turning every fiber of my being cold.” Their love was an infinite love that should survive anything. A pure love, perpetual devotion, with immense passion will live on, because eminent love has no bounds. It’s Infinite. It’s indestructible, and not even in death would it cease to exist, because eminent love never dies.
This is my first book by Leddy Harper and the writing was beautiful. I found myself highlighting so many quotes. I found parts gut-wrenching and heart-breaking with me in an ugly cry. Not every book has a Happy Ever After or not every Happily Ever After looks the same.
One of the most emotional reads I’ve read this year!
I absolutely loved, loved this book.
There was so much emotion in this book that I think I was sad throughout the whole thing and I even shed a few tears as well.
This story really has meaning and it broke my heart to no end. I felt my heart being tugged as I was reading along this beautiful love story.
We never know what fate has in store for us and sometimes whether we like it or not, we don’t like what our destiny is but we have to accept it.
Creed falls madly in love with Layne, she’s a pretty girl and something about her catches Creed’s attention. If he though her twin sister Drea was beautiful, well it seems like Drea has nothing on Layne, in Creed’s eyes.
Creed made the biggest mistake of his life when he let’s the love of his life go. He chose his career over her when she decides to move to the other side of the country for a job. Now, Creed has to decide if he made the right choice or if he should go try and get his girl back. But when he gets there he gets the biggest surprise of his life and not one he was expecting.
As their story evolves, we get to read from Creed’s POV, which I loved. This is something different, we always get to read the girls POV and I love it when we actually get the male’s POV instead. I want to know what’s going on in their heads, their minds and what they voice.
I’m not going to give the story away, I’m just going to tell you that it’s filled with a lot of emotion, sorrow and pain. Not the happy ending I was expecting, but nonetheless, there was one.
But I really, really felt something with this book and after having read it and finished a few days ago, I still can’t get over it. I’m stumped and nothing has gotten my attention recently, because I keep thinking about this book.
If I could give this book more than 5 stars I can definitely tell you that it earned them!
**WARNING – Rip your heart out, run it over with an 18 wheeler that has razor blade tires, set the pieces on fire and attempt to put your heart back together – Story***
“There is no happily ever after in a world where you don’t exist ”
I don’t even know where to begin with this review. I have written my review 6 times but none of them seem fitting because it is hard not to slip and write something that could possibly spoil the story for others and not one of reviews end without me expressing how much I hate Leddy Harper.
With that being said I don’t actually hate Leddy Harper. I hate that she ripped my heart to a million pieces and laughed about it. Months later I am still heart broken for Creed and Layne.
Leddy has ripped every emotion out of me. She left me crying, shaking and feeling completely raw to the bone. I have never had such a book hang over in the hundred of books I read. I just couldn’t accept it. I couldn’t accept the pain these characters went through. What made it more raw for me was the fact that 2 living, breathing people went through this pain. These characters are real. They loved, lost and loved harder to find their way back to each other.
I was reading in bed and due to crying loud enough to disturb my better half he kicked me out and told me I am no longer allowed to read in bed. A normal person would go to the guestroom or even the living room to sit on a comfy chair or couch but I am not normal. I was so beside myself I was afraid to fall down the stairs so I spent 2 hours sitting on the edge of the tub and taking ugly cry selfies so that I had proof that Leddy Harper shattered my soul with this story. I finally finished at 2am and then tossed and turned until 6am because I couldn’t shut my brain off. I closed my eyes and Creed and Layne were in my head. Everything Leddy wrote just kept hitting my in the gut. People at work the next day saw my puffy face and thought I had a hangover.
Have at least 1 box of tissues and a bottle of tequila next to you.
Creed & Layne’s story is beautiful, painful and healing.
“Not every happily ever after looks the same. Nor is it how you’d imagine it being.”
This is such a beautiful story about life, love, loss and moving forward.