Review / Release Blitz: You Keep Breaking Us by Carrie Aarons

You Keep Breaking Us by Carrie Aarons is live!

We were the ultimate example of that couple who can't live with each other, but can't seem to function without each other.

The minute I met Callum Strass at fifteen, I was a goner. We were the golden couple of our high school. The king and queen of prom, the sweethearts voted most likely to get married and have babies, and the absolute idiots who decided to attend the same college.

Because that's when it all fell apart. The naïve, puppy love versions of ourselves couldn't see the obvious cracks we'd had back in our hometown. But they sure revealed themselves when we started living in an off-campus house together with four of our other friends.

Within a semester, blow-out fights, jealousy, every-other-week breakups, and my abandonment issues had him bowing out. Not just on me, but on the house, too. Until our senior year, when his parents refuse to keep paying rent on two places.

So he moves back in, and I'm forced to live with my ex. The one who has ruined all other men for me. The one I still cry myself to sleep at night thinking about. The one who confesses, during a run-in in a dark hallway, that he hates how much he still loves me.

And when he starts dating again, he might as well plunge a knife straight through my heart. Despite our breakup, I'm on the verge of losing him for real this time, and possibly forever. The only option is to seek help for my deep-seated trauma, the thing that Callum always encouraged me to see someone about. The thing that eventually pushed him away.

Put two of the most driven, headstrong, and passionate people in any relationship and it's bound to combust. We've always had that twin flame kind of love.

So, together we might burn. But we also might heal.

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MY REVIEW

Bevan and Callum have had a toxic, on/off again relationship for literally years, until one time Callum finally breaks up with her, for good this time. Or so he says. But it feels final to Bevan and she notices he looks and sounds differently this time. Perhaps her issues finally drove him away for good. Perhaps it's time for her to address said issues?

Years later and now he's moving back into the home they (Bevan, Callum, and some close friends) all share. Well Callum moved out and now is moving back in because he can't find anyone to sublet his old room. If that isn't a sign of the apocalypse I don't know what is. This will either be the final nail in their toxic coffin, or a second chance at the love they both still have for each other.

I have to say this right off the bat - this book hit a little too close to home for me and had me remembering living through my brother's long on/off again relationship with his ex-wife, so I wasn't probably the best person to review it. That being said, I enjoyed this story, partially. What did I enjoy? The tight friendships Callum and Bevan have with their circle of people. The slow heal they both did. That they worked everything out. What didn't I enjoy? Well, unfortunately, I didn't particularly like Bevan. Not that I didn't appreciate that she finally worked on her issues, issues which were pretty damaging and I felt for her because of them. But, she was unpleasant and immature for a lot of this, and like they constantly both said, she was the big b word. I don't like that word because it's such a negative and derogatory way to refer to someone, but in this case, it was accurate. Callum wasn't without his faults either, though, both within the context of their relationship woes, and outside of them, in his own personality. Their relationship was definitely toxic, but I liked that they eventually fixed it, fixed themselves, and fixed each other. Not my favorite story of this series, or my favorite couple, but still mostly entertaining, and as always with this author, well-written.

Meet Carrie Aarons

Author of romance novels such as Fool Me Twice and Love at First Fight, Carrie Aarons writes books that are just as swoon-worthy as they are sarcastic. A former journalist, she prefers the love stories of her imagination, and the athleisure dress code, much better.

When she isn't writing, Carrie is busy binging reality TV, having a love/hate relationship with cardio, and trying not to burn dinner. She lives in the suburbs of New Jersey with her husband, two children and ninety-pound rescue pup.

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