| Like a Memory by Abbi Glines |

PAGES: 171 (Ebook)

SYNOPSIS: Bliss York and Nate Finlay fell in love with each other when they were young. However, due to circumstances, they fell apart. Seven years later, they meet again.

RATING: 2.5/5

NON-SPOILERY REVIEW: 
I expected much from this book because it's a combination of the characters from Sea Breeze and Rosemary Beach and I love both of those series. I love Abbi Glines and most of her previous books so I was really saddened by the fact that this book felt so wrong. I was really disappointed. There were parts I liked in the beginning especially since there were mentions of other characters from the Sea Breeze and Rosemary Beach series but there were no meaningful thing that happened to them. They were just mentioned. Nothing on what happened since the previous books. I hated how the lead characters' romance were developed. Sure, they had a past but it wasn't really described much so you can't exactly ship them so much because of that. With everything that happened in the current time, it's annoying that they got together. I mean, Octavia existed for heaven's sake. I really disliked the twist. I wanted to throw my phone away (since I was reading in my phone) after reading the book because of that. Plus, there are so many characters mentioned that I had trouble keeping track of who's who. The legit ending was all right but god I'm really disappointed. I hope that if there are more books for this series in the future, it won't be like this one. 

• I hated the fact that there was a fiancee that was introduced here (Octavia) but it's not like she had any importance to the story since she was just ignored anyway. She was just there to get hurt and to be an obstacle. It was useless to just kill her in the end. She had to become pregnant in order for her to be something worthwhile.
• There were some points where I was really annoyed at both the lead characters. Bliss was too goody-goody but there were some parts where she was really confusing (the part where she tested Nate etc). Nate seemed wrong. His backstory was not tragic at all. It didn't make sense since his parents are Rush and Blaire. How did he become like that? Plus, the way he acted when he first encountered Bliss. That was an asshole move.
• Poor Eli, stuck at best friend zone. I love him though. You can see that he really cares for Bliss and was there during the time she needed him most.
• Octavia's backstory was really tragic. It was terrible what happened to her and she didn't deserve what happened to her.
• The way Nate broke up with Octavia sucked. Sure she wasn't great but she deserved more than a text message. Nate was such a dick for just texting her and then not even responding to her calls.
• I felt bad for Bliss when I found out that she can't have children. 
• I felt sad for Nate when he found out that Octavia was pregnant. He lost a son.
• It was cute seeing Nate's family care for him after Octavia died.
• It was cute seeing Nate with Bliss' family. It was a fun part.
• So many other characters introduced that may have their potential story. I mean I'd want that but please make it better @AbbiGlines.

FAVORITE QUOTES: 

Life was special. No matter how hard it got it could get better. You had to trust that. 

Life wasn't easy. Love wasn't easy. Not the real thing anyway. The real thing hurt like hell and gave you the best moments of your life. 

I wanted all this with her. The works. Every complicated beautiful moment of it.