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I have a thing for soulmate/fated mate stories. I can’t help it. There’s just something about a love that was always meant to be, that digs in and won’t let go, that speaks to me. It’s even more of a gut punch when only one side of the duo even realizes what is happening. I guess I’m a bit of a masochist in that regard. These books always break my heart well before they try to piece it back together again, but I keep going back for more.

This book made me cry. What starts out as shades of a rom-com with a grumpy-sunshine pairing turns out to be deceptively more involved. It was full of heartbreak, longing, and a love that spans lifetimes. Helene and Sebastien reached off of the page and snared my heart in a vise grip that refused to let go. They are both searching for something and trying to get away from failed relationships. Sebastien is continually running from the centuries of love and heartbreak that keep reeling him in, and cutting him loose. He is damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t. Helene is writing stories of love, while fleeing an unwanted relationship. She just doesn’t realize exactly who it is she is running towards.

This is a story about love, and what happens when you have to be willing to fight for it. When you have to be willing to accept that sometimes, love stories and coincidences are more than they may seem. When you have to be willing to accept that love is not always happiness. And when you have to accept that no matter how long you have it, love is worth the broken heart that can come when it is lost.

*I received a free ARC of this book from NetGalley and the publisher to read and review. All opinions are my own.