TITLE: YOU KEEP BREAKING US
AUTHOR: CARRIE AARONS
GENRE: ROMANCE
PUBLICATION: MARCH 11TH 2022
Synopsis
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.
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.
My Review
📚 YOU KEEP BREAKING US 📚
Is a full length stand-alone romance book by Author Carrie Aarons. Spoken in 'Dual Perspectives.'
So there I was days into a book funk until this book...
As soon as I started it I was pulled into the storyline, the break up of a life time glaring at me in the face, fractured friendships put on the line as their renting quarters was under threat of breaking up this tight knit group of friends if someone new had to be added to the mix.
Bevan and Callum have been tied to each other in some way as soon as they clapped eyes on each other when they were young. Now they have to navigate a new chapter in their lives without that other person beside them. Bevan is carrying some childhood trauma on her shoulders so even though Callum is the love of her life she's always kept a wee bit of herself back until her fears came to fruition.
These two had somewhat of a toxic relationship, both knowing which buttons to push and both pushing them as far as they could until it was pushed too far and one had to walk away.
But when Callum can't find anyone to rent his room and he's got to move back in where his now ex lives, it's a recipe for disaster.
This was a quick, angsty, read which I really enjoyed.
Bevan and Callum have been tied to each other in some way as soon as they clapped eyes on each other when they were young. Now they have to navigate a new chapter in their lives without that other person beside them. Bevan is carrying some childhood trauma on her shoulders so even though Callum is the love of her life she's always kept a wee bit of herself back until her fears came to fruition.
These two had somewhat of a toxic relationship, both knowing which buttons to push and both pushing them as far as they could until it was pushed too far and one had to walk away.
But when Callum can't find anyone to rent his room and he's got to move back in where his now ex lives, it's a recipe for disaster.
This was a quick, angsty, read which I really enjoyed.
