“You can’t sort of do this, Fish. Draw a line and get on one side or the other.”Love is never so sweet as when it receives a second chance. In the sequel to her award-winning novel The Man I Love, Suanne Laqueur continues the story of Erik Fiskare’s romance with Daisy Bianco. Though separated for twelve years, the extraordinary bond forged in their youth has endured. But when your soulmate has … soulmate has caused you indescribable pain, how easy is it to forgive? How much trust is needed to place your heart back into the hands that once broke it? How much faith does it take to ask the question, “Do you still want me?” and believe in the reply: “I still want us.”
Erik and Daisy commit to creating a new life together. They are separated by geography, loyal to career commitments and burdened with lingering pain from a decade spent apart. Yet despite the challenges, Erik knows Daisy is the best thing to happen to him twice.
Slowly Erik earns back Daisy’s love as well as the trust of his incomparable friend, Will Kaeger. Both relationships grow deeper and more complex, as do Erik’s ties to the past. Unexpected contact with distant cousins offers new insight to the cruel childhood desertion that shaped so much of Erik’s adult life. With Daisy at his side, he travels back to his hometown to meet his people, explore his family’s history and learn about the men who wore his heirloom necklace before him.
The cathedral once torn down is rebuilt. But a love affair is never a finished thing. Life is never without its tragedies. Daisy and Erik soon face a threat more harrowing than gunfire, more sorrowful than the lost years. With Will at his back and family close by, Erik must fight for the things he once walked away from and prove his love is here to stay.
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“The cathedral once burned down is rebuilt. But a love affair is never a finished thing. Life is never without its tragedies.”
And nobody can write unfinished love like Suanne can. This book, this entire series is not just about Erik Fiskare and Daisy Bianco. It’s a journey, their passage through time, starting with the Theater where a cast of colorful characters are walking with them and to the end, sitting on the dock by the lake in Canada.
The book starts where Give Me Your Answer True ends.
So it instantly picks on pent up passions, wasted years lie Discarded on the floor with their clothes and they get spectacularly laid.. And again.
Life stumbles along with both trying to find some balance between their super busy, opposite facing lives. Trust becomes white elephant in the room. They do, but they’re skeptical. She’s scared he’ll leave again, he’s jealous of her years without him. Dancing, talking, loving, writing to others.
“You can’t sort of do this, Fish. Draw a line and get on one side or the other…”
Life throws curveballs but they refuse to let go of each other’s hands, till one of the biggest trauma in the world slaps them in the face
I threw my kindle at the wall, pmd Suanne and cussed LOUDLY!!
Story also delves into widening the family portrait of Erik Fiskare. His past is dug up, relatives pop up and the puzzle pieces start coming together to complete his family picture.
But I STILL can’t get past the Boulder sized surprise Suanne just dropped on me.. Equally bigger lump now lodged in my throat, I picked up the book again. And the process thereafter twisted the knife a little deeper. I cried nonstop from there on, story went down a poignant alley and stuck there for a while.
The growth of Erik and Daisy in Suanne’s hands is truely a remarkable feat. And more significantly the bond between Erik & Will was explored and explained.
To say I’m floored by the story is an understatement. I’m consumed, subsumed, underwater, completely covered with the magic of her words.
Infinite stars for Big Boy fuckies
The story is complete with this book!
All the love, joy, sadness and tears end here.
Suanne did a wonderful job of bringing an end to every part of the story and leaving no stone unturned.
I have truly enjoyed this series and these characters, it’s sad that it over. I would definitely recommend it and I will read it again!
Daisy and Erik
This entire series is incredible and I came to it at exactly the right time.
The Man I Love is from Erik’s point of view and is all about the bonds of love, romantic, friendship and family and how it can survive through horrific events.
Give me Your Answer True – From Daisy’s point of view but not a complete retelling of the original story, it is heartbreaking as you watch her descent, using self harm to control her pain. It is overwhelming and absorbing, you feel everyone’s pain as they reconnect at the reunion.
Here to Stay – The story of Erik and Daisy finding their way forward together. Just when you think life is finally getting back on track the author rips the carpet out from under you once again. The importance of their friendships really called to me with this one.
Each book gives an insight into the issues of mental health and how people are affected by the events they go through, and how they can be helped back to themselves.
The Ones that Got Away is like you sat down and had a chat with the author about her inspiration and thought processes whilst writing the Fish Tales. I found it really interesting and feel very grateful to the author for sharing so much with us.
I will be recommending this series to everyone as one of my all time favourite reads!
After reading Here To Stay I can finally say that I and the characters have come full circle. This third and final book in The Fish Tale trilogy was nothing more than a masterpiece. The writing was intelligent and there was a purpose for everything that happened in Here To Stay. I have to admit that I was pretty damn angry with the author. It was only after I finished Here To Stay that I can loudly say, that what she accomplished not only with this book but with the entire Fish Tales series was genius.
Here To Stay was for me about the characters and how they grew, had changed throughout the twenty years I followed them. It was all about Erik, Daisy, Will and Lucky. I loved and cherished every moment of being in their company. Not only has this series been about the relationship between Erik and Daisy but also the friendship between Erik and Will.
Erik and Will certainly had a bromance going on with their funny jokes but it was more than that. It was unconditional love. They relied on one another and they stepped up whenever one of them was needed. No question asked. I often got emotional when Erik and Will were around each other and had their talks. They’d been through so much together and when they were apart but still their friendship and love were stronger than ever. They truly brought out the best in one another.
I loved how Erik and Daisy approached their relationship this time around after they’d been apart for twelve years. They showed growth, openness and they communicated. A very traumatizing experience with a certain loss proved how much they truly had grown. I feared they’d both revert back to old patterns but their trust in each other along with their powerful and undying love prevailed. It was an emotional roller coaster ride. I was bawling my eyes out only because I care so damn much about these amazing people.
The writing was excellent. Phenomenal is more like it. Every word mattered and took on an entire new meaning. I’m so in love with this series and can’t praise Suanne Laqueur enough. This has been unlike any other reading experience I’ve ever had. In some way my life feels richer because of The Fish Tales. I’ve followed these characters for twenty years and feel like I gained a new set of friends. This is exactly why I read. Not just this book but the entire Fish Tales series is a masterpiece. I bow down to you, Suanne Laqueur. You got a fan for life.
6 BadAssDirtyThisIsMyForeverStars