A beautiful romantic teen novel about overcoming barriers to be with the one you love, by Annie Woods.First Came Forever is the first book in a new trilogy following heroine Erica Lindell as an unexpected meeting changes her life forever. This swoon-worthy read for teens has several twists, including a love triangle and an assassination plot, where Erica is pushed to question her own aims and … aims and choices and make the hardest decisions of her life. What price is too high to pay, even for love?
Backpacking with her high school friends, Erica’s life takes a thrilling new turn. Meeting the fascinating Sasha Ailes, she can’t help but fall completely and irrevocably in love with him. When he feels the same way about her, Erica finds herself drawn into a fairy tale love story that will set her life on a new direction. But Sasha has kept his true identity a secret. Finding out who he really is, Erica must overcome the betrayal and make the hardest choice of her life. Can she give up her own dreams to live in his world, or leave and lose him forever?
First Came Forever is an enchanting, heart-wrenching story about friendship and first love and the devastating consequences a mistake can lead to. A deeply romantic read, full of characters who will stay with you for a long time.
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First Came Forever is a great introduction into the romance genre! I fell in love with each of the characters and their quirks. And I really enjoyed all the romance and tensions that the characters feel This book was extremely hard to put down, and I actually finished it in a record amount of time for myself. I highly recommend that you get yourself a copy today!
Erika watched him pensively. “You’ve changed,” she finaly said. “Really changed. “Why? What happened?”
“Why? Do you really need to ask that?” He raised his eyebrow at her. Swiftly, he moved his hand along the railing and covered her hand with his. He looked down at their hands and let his finger slide gently over the back hand. “You happened.”
Have you ever seen those clips when a child opens up a book and magic starts pouring out of it? Yeah, that!
Annie Woods is a new author to me. This is her debut book. But she writes like she has at least 10 published books. This is what appealed to me in the starters.
Everything about this story is just about perfect. The plot is mesmerizing and the characters so perfect. Erika was such a down to earth heroine, a great friend and a honorable human being. I know I was supposed to say I liked Sasha (I did, I really did), but my heart belongs to Tyler.
Off course this story has it’s twists and turns and I can not wait for them to be revealed to me.
Rate: 4,3 / 5 stars
I’m so glad I finally got around to reading this book. It’s been sitting on my TBR forever and I’m so happy I’m tackling it now that I’m finally on vacation. I’ll try not to spoil anything major I promise.
Jumping into the book, you’re first introduced to the main character Erica and her friends who are going on a vacation abroad together but while all Erica’s friends want to do is party and sunbathe, she wants to go see the sights and experience the temples of Cambodia. So she ends up venturing out on her own and that’s when she meets Sasha. They share this connection right from the start and throughout the first day they get along so great they decide to keep travelling together. Sasha being well traveled shows her around and takes her to some of his favorite places. While they are on their journey they soon fall for each other, and even though it was super fast you can’t help but like seeing them together being all cute. But Sasha has been hiding a secret all along, a secret that is a big part of who he is – being a Prince and King to be. This secret will hang over them throughout the entirety of the book, in various ways.
Even knowing his secret and not knowing if she could ever live the royal life and all the duties that come with it, neither Erica or Sasha want to part ways. They take on a long distance/secret relationship heads on, and somehow they manage to move to the same country and see each other from time to time when Sasha has some free time from his charity work.
Starting senior at a new school in a new country without knowing a soul is not easy but Erica soon makes a few friends who became central in her life and are loyal to a fault. She starts on the track team because she loves running and hoping it will help her fit in and make more friends.
Soon Erica’s life is spent studying with Danny and Ricky at Danny’s house, going running with Tyler, Danny’s cousin who lives with him, and escaping to see Sasha whenever she and he can. She’s getting her life together and integrating well in the new country and falling deeper in love with Sasha while also getting to know the real Tyler bit by bit.
Things start getting complicated, a distance relationship is not easy. When she’s with Sasha everything feels right and is perfect but when they’re apart doubt fills her head and seeing Sasha on tv pretending to be someone else with the media makes her question if she really knows him at all.
Soon Erica finds her head and heart divided between Sasha and Tyler. She knows Sasha is the love of her life but she also developed feelings for Tyler. They have something between them that is undeniable. Do Erica and Sasha really have a future? Will she ever be ready to go public and live the life of a royal?
First Came Forever is a story about a teenage life who finds herself living some sort of fairy tale that she never thought possible. Sometimes it feels like she’s living a double life, hiding from the world, lying to her friends back in Sweden, spending only stolen moments with Sasha. This double life causes doubts in both their heads and threatens to mess their relationship up. Tyler’s feelings are obvious to Sasha and have him beyond jealous whenever Erica mentions him. Sasha’s afraid that’s he losing Erica to Tyler when he finds out they are going to be together at her prom, so he decides to drive there. Once he gets there he finds them in a compromising position and when it all comes to blows, he ends up driving off mad and it doesn’t end well…
This book had me all over the place with all the teen life dramas and the royal life dramas as well. The friendships, the love triangles, the murder plots all had me glued to this book.
Everything came together in the end in a fantastic way in terms of plot, but for my emotions not so much. Things did not end on a positive note and boy am I glad the second book is out so I can jump right on and find out what happens with all the characters, because they all have me invested in their journey. I can’t wait to see how everything plays out, how the truths come out, how relationships will end. I’m so excited.
This YA book contains descriptions that transport you around the world as a young love blossoms.