Angy’s Review: For All the Evers by Debra Anastasia

Posted December 18, 2016 by angypotter in Blog Tour, Book Reviews, Collage, Release day / 0 Comments

For All the Evers by Debra Anastasia
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Published by Self Published on December 18th 2016
Genres: Romance
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five-stars

Fallen Billow should be in college like most of her friends, but instead she’s raising her brother and working as a housekeeper at a vintage local hotel. It’s back-breaking work, but not nearly as challenging as fending off unwanted advances from the hotel’s owner.

Thomas McHugh is fighting for our country, across the globe and decades before Fallen Billow was even born. So there’s no way they’re soul mates. There’s no way he can be desperate to see her, hold her, kiss her. Except there is.

Is it a dream when he inks his name on her skin? Is it a delusion when she puts her hands on his face and says she loves him? Nothing has ever felt more real.

Fate has etched paths for Thomas and Fallen that even time cannot touch. A Purple Heart proclaims Thomas’ valor and bravery. And his death. But Fallen dares to dream of the impossible. She wants Thomas to stay. Just stay.

A tribute to all who have served our country, this novel honors the impossible beauty of love and the endless power of hope. Come open your heart and celebrate the many facets of bravery with Fallen and Thomas.

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Book Review: 5 Stars

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There are books with sexy and romantic stories that are just stories, meant just to entertain, and there are other books with some meaningful lesson that will leave a mark on you for a long time, or even forever. But I haven’t read a book like For All The Evers. It’s not just a time travel love story, it’s the book of Debra’s uncle, Thomas, who died so young when he was defending his country, and never got the chance to meet his soulmate and Debra decided to write this story for him and for all of us to fall in love with him and be his soulmates through the beautiful Fallen.

Fallen was a young woman who had to leave everything behind for the sake of her little brother. Their mother was an alcoholic and she literally abandoned them, so Fallen took charge of everything. In order to provide everything she and her brother needed, Fallen got a job as a maid in a hotel. One night she was cleaning room 514, the only room nobody ever rented, and she suddenly fell asleep and she was transported to mysterious place where she met Thomas, a handsome soldier who not only captivated her with his chivalrous, but also because she felt safe with him. And then she woke up. It was all a dream, she thought, and she wanted so badly to dream of Thomas again. But as much as she tried, the dream didn’t come back until next week when she was cleaning the same room, and she felt relief and safe and happy to be away from her crappy reality. She was sure they were just dreams—beautiful and vivid dreams—until she met in her real life one person from her first dream, and he happened to be her boss. He didn’t recognize her and she thought maybe Thomas was also somewhere and she just needed to find him because he might not remember her just like his boss didn’t seem to.

This story was like a roller coaster, one moment it was all angsty with her reality, and the other it was all romantic and dreamy with Thomas. I loved every moment of it, and I’m so happy with the ending, it was full of surprises.

But what I really loved about this book is the tribute Debra decided to make for her uncle Thomas. Now we all are sending him love and prayers and I’m sure he’s smiling in heaven, thanking his Debra for making sure we all get to know him and fall in love with him.

And just like I said in the beginning, there are books that leave mark on us, and For All The Evers surely did it in me. For ever.

“When I saw you? When you looked at me? I felt like I’d been waiting to see you my whole life, that my soul was off center until you put your arms around me. I felt safe, and until then I hadn’t even been sure what safe was. I never really knew it was an actual thing. But I can understand now why feeling safe makes people happy.”