Holding On - A
Letting Go - A
Holding On is a story about Quinn starting out being in love with her best friend, Luke. But, Luke doesn't ever make a move when he's in love with her, too. He doesn't want to ruin their friendship. Luke's older brother, Jake, gives him crap for it for years. When they start college, Jake tells Luke if he doesn't make a move, he will. And that's what ends up happening. Jake starts dating Quinn. Quinn forgets all about the feelings she has for Luke, although the feelings are never far away. However, Quinn is head over heals in love with Jake. Quinn finds out she's pregnant and Jake is ecstatic. Luke is not. He still loves Quinn. But, he's happy that she's happy. Jake and Quinn get married pretty quickly after they find out they're having a baby. Life goes on without them hearing from Luke very much. Then, Jake and Luke get back together for a guy's weekend, and Quinn is thrilled that they get to spend time with eachother. She's been heartbroken that she came between brothers. It seems like everything is going well then Meg Jolie hits us hard with about a third to a quarter left in the book. Quinn and Jake are supposed to go to the doctor's office to find out what they're having. Jake is late to the appointment, and then ends up not showing up at all. She has the sonographer write down on a piece of paper what the sex of the baby is so she and Jake can find out together. She goes home and finds what she thinks is his truck, but it's Luke's. :( He tells her the awful news that Jake has died. At this point, I'm like WTF. It was sudden, they think it was an aneurism. I can't imagine being pregnant, losing the dad, and thinking all the time that the baby will never meet his dad. Heartbreaking. She ends up opening the piece of paper and finds out it's a boy, which Jake had said all along. She gives birth with Luke being there. She's grateful he was there for her. The story basically ends right there.
Letting Go is Luke and Quinn's story about dating and the feelings they've had for eachother for a decade. However, everybody is talking, even Quinn's parents. They don't think it's a good idea that they're together now that Jake is gone. Since Luke has always had feelings for Quinn, they think it's really happy he can move in on Quinn. That's obviously not the case though. But, after one weekend out with Quinn's sister and her fiancee', 2 girls, Tabitha and Betsy, say some awful things that make Luke second guess whether or not he should be with Quinn. He leaves and Quinn is heartbroken when he won't answer his phone. Carly goes and talks some sense into Luke. They end up together. They get their happy ending. In the epilogue, we see that Quinn is pregnant, only about 3 months along but showing alot more than she did with Carter (her and Jake's son). We find out that she's actually having twins! I'm sure we will see more of that in Carly's stories.
My only problem with these books was the lack of sex scenes in the books, lol. I wanted just a little bit more passion between the characters. I didn't like how we saw over and over again the regret of not getting together between Quinn and Luke, but over all I was really happy with these books.
Until next time!
Ashley
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