Title: Bad Days
Author: A.S. Kelly
Page count: 284
Published: July 31, 2018
Publisher: The Next Step PR
Genre: NA
Received: from the author in exchange for an honest review
Rating: 4/5
Summary:
Jason Lee is the friend everyone would like to have. He’s loyal, sensitive and generous and kind to those he loves. He has dedicated himself completely to his work at the pub that he manages with his friends, who have by now become a second family to him. He is trying to make sense out of a life that is damaged by loss and pain, closing himself into his safe haven of a world that is far removed from his previous suffering, and he is determined not to lose any more than he already has.
Alex McBride returns to Dublin, having been away for five years. She finds her old house, goes to places familiar to her when she grew up there with her friends, but nothing is like it used to be. Coming back is never easy, especially if your absence is responsible for the slow destruction of someone else’s life, someone you had hoped to forget but who actually remained exactly where he was, like an open wound that continues to bleed.
Jason and Alex find each other together again after a long separation: they’ve been friends, confidants and conspirators but now they’re forced to reconcile a past that has never stopped hurting and a future impossible for them to live out together, because there’s something that could separate them, and this time, they might be parted forever
My Thoughts:
Oh my gosh! Be still my beating heart. Jason is such an amazing, wonderful, thoughtful guy. He has loved Alex forever. They had met when they were babies because their moms were best friends.
Jason and Alex lose touch for 5 years because of something that happens between them. Jason feels guilty because of it.
Jason owns a bar Only4You with his friends and plays in a band with them. His friends are an amazing support system for Jason with all he has been though. With the loss of his mom and his dad that lost him self for a while after his wife passed.
Alex is going to collage, and she must be carful with her every day life because she has Long QT Syndrome. Which means that she has an irregular heart beat. When she first found out it probably wasn’t the best way.
I absolutely adored how Jason knew every little detail about Alex. Like what makes her happy, sad, even the little faces that she makes when she’s reading a book and what they mean.
Some of my favourite quotes are:
“I want to be the first and only man you give everything to, and I’d like to give you everything that you deserve.”
“I’ll tell you what isn’t right, that you think I want to take care of you when all I want is to love you. Everything else is a decoration and I’m not interested in fucking picture frames, in what’s inside them. That’s what you are.”
**I was given this book by the publisher in exchange for an honest review**
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