“Our baby died on prom night, and nothing was ever the same again.”
Corabelle doesn’t feel like any of the other college girls. On what should have been one of the happiest nights of her life, she and her boyfriend Gavin watched a nurse disconnect the ventilator from their seven-day-old baby. During the funeral two days later, Gavin walked out and never returned.
Since then, her life has been a spiral of disasters. The only thing that has helped is her ability to black out whenever the pain gets too hard to bear, a habit that has become an addiction.
When Gavin shows up in her astronomy class four years later, he is hell-bent on getting her back, insisting she forgive him. Corabelle knows she can’t resist the touch that fills the empty ache that has haunted her since he left. But if he learns what she has done, if he follows the trail back through her past, her secrets will destroy their love completely. And once again, she’ll lose the only person who always believed she was innocent.
Forever Innocent by Deanna Roy
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A very touching, heartbreaking, and overall emotional book. But in a good way of course.
First I need to prepare you all…get the tissues. Not kidding, this is one emotional story. Not in the melt your heart kind of way, but in the break your heart, reduce you to sobbing tears emotional. Now, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t melt your heart moments. Because there really are. And I really looked forward to these moments.
So the heart break started from the get-go. Well, if you want to call the synopsis the ‘get-go’. So, if you haven’t read the synopsis for this book then here it is. And if you are one of those that doesn’t read the synopsis prior to reading a book in fear of it ruining the book then please, skim past it 🙂
Synopsis
“Our baby died on prom night, and nothing was ever the same again.”
Corabelle doesn’t feel like any of the other college girls. On what should have been one of the happiest nights of her life, she and her boyfriend Gavin watched a nurse disconnect the ventilator from their seven-day-old baby. During the funeral two days later, Gavin walked out and never returned.
Since then, her life has been a spiral of disasters. The only thing that has helped is her ability to black out whenever the pain gets too hard to bear, a habit that has become an addiction.
When Gavin shows up in her astronomy class four years later, he is hell-bent on getting her back, insisting she forgive him. Corabelle knows she can’t resist the touch that fills the empty ache that has haunted her since he left. But if he learns what she has done, if he follows the trail back through her past, her secrets will destroy their love completely. And once again, she’ll lose the only person who always believed she was innocent.
Yeah, I was a goner after that first line. I knew I was in for an emotional rollercoaster and boy did I ever get one.
This is an amazing story about what happens when something tragic tears a love apart and what can happen when two people find each other again and discover that the love they once shared and thought the lost, might still be as strong as it was four years ago.
There are, of course, secrets that both Corabelle and Gavin harbor and neither is willing to open up and share them with the other. Both are very scared of the consequences of what the other will think when those secrets are revealed. I was dying for these two to just open up and let it all out already. Their past and the way things happened was just too much to just try and forget.
I love how the author portrayed both Gavin and Corabelle as equally suffering individuals after losing their son. Corabelle might show it more, but Gavin definitely struggles every single day with the loss, even four years later. I have never lost a child but after having my daughter, I couldn’t imagine what it must be like.
I feel like there is also a lot of anger between Corabelle and Gavin that lies beneath the pain and heartache. But I got to thinking, how could there not be? They were both young and dealing with the loss of a baby. Gavin walked away. Yes, I understand his reasoning but Corabelle didn’t at the time. My heart literally ached for these two.
So, overall, great story. I laughed, I smiled, I felt, and I cried…a lot. Very, very emotional. So if this is your type of read, then please, go read it. The author does an amazing job at writing an emotional story with just the right amount of heartache and love. Very well done.
Favorite Quote:
“…I wanted to lose myself, fall into my one great love and just let everything disappear. He could do that. He’d been the only one who could ever do that.”
Deanna Roy is a sucker for romance and drama and dumps hefty amounts of both in her novels. She is also a powerful advocate for baby loss moms and has founded multiple support groups for women, from teens on up, who endure this impossible heartache. Her other novels include Baby Dust and Stella & Dane: A Honky Tonk Romance.Website: http://deannaroy.com/
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