Greyson East left his mark on me.
As the young girl who first fell for him, I didn’t know much about life. I did know about his smiles, though, and his laughs, and the strange way my stomach flipped when he was near.
As the young girl who first fell for him, I didn’t know much about life. I did know about his smiles, though, and his laughs, and the strange way my stomach flipped when he was near.
Life was perfect…until it wasn’t, and when we were forced to go our separate ways, I held on to our memories, let go of my first crush, and wished for the day I’d find him again.
When my wish came true, it was nothing like I imagined.
I couldn’t have known when I took the nanny position that it would be his children I looked after, that my new boss would be that boy I used to know, that boy who was now a man—a cold, lonely, detached man.
The smile and laugh I had loved so much were gone, now distant memories. Every part of him was covered in a fresh pain.
When he realized who I was, he made me promise to do my job and my job only.
He made me promise not to try to get to know him, not to recall the memories I’d treasured all this time.
But, sometimes, I saw the boy I’d once known in his stormy eyes. I saw the Greyson who smiled and laughed, who had stolen a young girl’s heart, and there was no doubt in my mind that this boy was worth fighting for.
I was given a second chance with the one who’d left his mark on me. All I hoped was that somehow I’d leave a mark on his soul, too.
When my wish came true, it was nothing like I imagined.
I couldn’t have known when I took the nanny position that it would be his children I looked after, that my new boss would be that boy I used to know, that boy who was now a man—a cold, lonely, detached man.
The smile and laugh I had loved so much were gone, now distant memories. Every part of him was covered in a fresh pain.
When he realized who I was, he made me promise to do my job and my job only.
He made me promise not to try to get to know him, not to recall the memories I’d treasured all this time.
But, sometimes, I saw the boy I’d once known in his stormy eyes. I saw the Greyson who smiled and laughed, who had stolen a young girl’s heart, and there was no doubt in my mind that this boy was worth fighting for.
I was given a second chance with the one who’d left his mark on me. All I hoped was that somehow I’d leave a mark on his soul, too.
ELEANORE & GREY:
Is a full length standalone romance novel by Brittainy C. Cherry. Spoken in Dual POVs. Split up into two parts. This review will be as spoiler free as I can possibly make it.
❝ He was him..I was me..And we were us..This was us..This was our story.❞
Eleanore & Grey is so unpredictable, utterly unique and unputdownable in every sense. This is not just your ordinary romance. It is completely addictive and intensely consuming. Heartbreakingly real in all its entirety.
PART ONE: Takes us back to 2003, this is the year when she finds out that her mother is ill but also the same year where she develops a crush on a boy.
It all started at a party that her mum talked her into attending, the sixteen year old girl in a nook enjoying the latest Harry Potter book instead of partying like her peers.Everything I knew about life, I learned from Harry Potter. I called him the greatest teacher of life lessons. Wearing a crocheted dragonfly cardigan, and seventeen year old Greyson the star basketball player who is coerced into talking to her by his best friend in the hopes that he'd worm his way back into her cousins graces.
When opposites attract. Eleanor is your nerdy Harry Potter book nerd introvert, she has her quirks, wears weird cardigans And Greyson is the schools heartthrob, the all round popular jock with a heart of gold. If he were a book character, he'd be the hero.
Eleanor's mother is sick so Greyson came into her life at the perfect time when she desperately needed someone to take her mind off her mother's illness. Eleanor's mother was her best friend. Greyson had lost his Grandfather not so long ago so he was sad and lonely without him.
"We don't have much in common, I don't think."
"Well, we can find out and go from there."
"Okay, well, once you discover something that we have in common, I'll hang out with you."
"Pinky promise?"
"Fineee," I groaned as I wrapped my pinky around his.
Grey was determined to find something they would have in common, he wanted to become her friend.
"I'm a Gryffindor," he remarked
"You read Harry Potter?"
He nodded. "Yup, sorry it took me so long to get back to you, but these are long."
"You read all the books?"
"All five, and now I'm counting down the days until the next one releases.
Why did you read them all?"
"So we'd have something in common.
And so on a weekly basis a beautiful friendship grew. From Harry Potter books to kung fu movies and red licorice on Tuesdays. We started seeing each other more and more, and if we weren't seeing each other, we were talking on AOL messenger.
But when Eleanor's mothers illness progresses further they decide to move away and live by the beach in Florida. Which means leaving Grey behind.
When hard things happen, we lean on each other. Okay?
Pinky promise.
And this is where the first load of heart break will occur. Grey yet again comes into Eleanor's life when she needed him the most.
PART TWO: The second part of the story jumps fifteen years. Grey and Eleanor are all grown up. But one of them is damaged beyond repair. This is where I felt a world of pain. Gone is that beautiful boy and in its place is a cold distant, heartbroken man. She becomes his employee, He's the CEO of Easthouse Whiskey his father's company.
He seemed so checked out from reality, I was surprised he was able to even complete hos daily work tasks. Yet, that seemed to be the one thing he excelled at doing. Greyson was a professional workaholic, and he took that role seriously.
A slow burn second chance romance ignites between the two.
Oh god my heart 💔this book was such an emotional one, threw all the feels at me at such high speeds, as soon as I started it I was beyond hooked, as my heart became full it also broke many times over. Not just for our heroine, but our hero also had to stomp on it, add his children into the mix and they just crushed it to smithereens.
Such a beautiful, heartfelt story, the author pulled out all the stops. Nothing prepared me for this story. Grab wine, grab tissues and be prepared to feel a world of pain.
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