Gayathiri Chandrasekaran
Hold the Forevers is a stand alone novel by K.A. Linde. Ash Talmadge had been Delilah's first love in high school and the first one to give her a heart-break. When she finally moves on from the heart break and goes to Savannah for her Uni, she meets Cole Davis.. Cole is full of life and charming that eventually Delilah falls in love with Cole.. But then, Hold the Forevers is not your normal love triangle.. It's a unique story full of angst, that spans over a period of 13 years.. Delilah loves both Ash and Cole. They had been her support system at various crucial times in her life.. Delilah is driven and focused with her education and career. However, when it comes to Cole and Ash, she is at an impasse.. She cant have both of them and she is unable to chose one until her Wedding day!! This book is a real roller-coaster ride.. I can't count the number of times, I wanted to just smack the characters for their actions... The angst was top notch and kept me on edge the whole time i was reading !!
Sandy S.
4.25 stars- HOLD THE FOREVERS by KA Linde is a stand alone, contemporary new adult to adult erotic, romance story line focusing on Delilah ‘Lila’ Greer, Cole Davis and Ash Talmadge. Told from first person perspective (Delilah ‘Lila’ Greer) jumping between several timelines covering approximately fourteen years in the life, HOLD THE FOREVERS focuses on the love triangle between Delilah Greer, Cole Davis and Ash Talmadge. Ash Talmadge was Lila’s high school sweetheart but Ash’s family had his future already mapped out, and Lila was not in the plans. Prom reveals a heart crushing secret, and our heroine, humiliated and beyond reason, runs away from the man she would always love. Lila will meet Cole Davis at the University of Georgia, and it is insta-love for our story line couple but at every turn Lila would come face to face with Ash Talmadge, and in this the love Lila has for Cole is equally matched by the love Lila continues to feel for the boy, now man, who broke her heart. As the years pass, our heroine finds herself the careless and self-absorbed architect of a dangerous game of heart break and emotions wherein Cole and Ash would inevitably be pitted against one another in an effort to prove who was more worthy of Lila’s love, and in the end, Lila would destroy that love over and over again. HOLD THE FOREVERS is a frustrating story of embattled love; a vicious and inescapable cycle of love and loss, deception and dishonesty, infidelity, passion, forgiveness and romance. Whether knowingly or unintentionally, our heroine continues to undermine the trust of both Cole and Ash but both men are unable to let go of the woman they could never stop loving, and in this all three participants are equally responsible for the heart ache and pain. KA Linde pulls the reader into a roller coaster of emotions, heart break, friendships and love. Lila Greer loves both men equally but wanting both will force our heroine to choose, leaving one man destroyed , and the other hoping for a happily ever after. HOLD THE FOREVERS will be a struggle for readers who dislike cheating and infidelity in their romance story lines. In the ebook copy, there is a link to an epilogue seven years in the future-here’s hoping the author has plans to write a story for the man who is forced to walk away from the woman he loves.
