Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Going Forward – K. M. Galvin

Going Forward
by K.M. Galvin
Publication Date: September 8, 2014
Genres: Contemporary Romance, NA
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Reviewer:  Shannon
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You may think you know me. The truth is I wasn’t always a good person. Truth is I played in the dark. I did a lot of things I’m not proud of. Did a lot of things that many people should hate me for, things that you may hate me for. But one thing I know for sure is that sometimes in order to go forward, we have to go back. And so…this is my story.

When Emily’s parents died in a car crash the night of her birthday she thought nothing could hurt worse. She was wrong. Choice. That’s the difference. They didn’t choose to abandon her, but her friends, brother, and the one person she loved more than life all chose to turn their backs. So Emily made the decision to shut off from life. She chose to find comfort in anyone who’d have her, anything she could drink, any drug that would give her just a moment of oblivion.

But all that changes with two pink lines.

Seventeen and pregnant? Not how she planned on finishing out her senior year. Jason and Declan both coming home? Not the reunion she was prepared for. But life doesn’t wait for you, and so you’re only option is to go forward.

Reviewer’s Thoughts

There was something about GOING FORWARD that absolutely blew me away.  The heartbreak  of Emily and her brother Jason, along with their determination to fix what was broken between each other and themselves had me glued to this book.

Emily Scott had spent the past year losing herself to alcohol, drugs and meaningless sex, all in an effort to momentarily feel something.  In the year since her parents death and anyone else she cared about leaving her, she made choices that could have and probably should have destroyed her.  But when a pregnancy test taken on a whim changes her life, it’s again Emily’s choices that change the direction of her life.

I don’t know how to say this other than, poor Emily.  She was hurting and feeling abandoned by everyone (and she really had been) when she discovers she pregnant.  She needed someone, anyone, to prove to her that she was loved and that she was worth sticking around for.  But I was happy that she did reach out when her world suddenly started spinning in a direction she wasn’t (at that moment) capable of dealing with on her own.  No matter how mad she was at her brother and his best friend, Declan, for leaving her, she knew she needed Jason and reached out hoping he’d come.

Jason didn’t disappoint.  Everyone handles grief differently and his was to run away.  He knew what he did was wrong, but didn’t know how to fix it.  But when Emily needed him, he abandoned his own dreams to come home.  He became Emily’s rock, something she desperately needed.  She knew he struggled with what he did to her, but he proved to her that she was important and he was always going to be there.   You couldn’t help but love him and you could almost watch him change into a man anyone would be honored to know.

Then there was Declan.  He’s Jason’s best friend, but he’s the one person Emily needed (more than Jason) and who broke her on a deeper level.  It’s obvious Declan has issues.  But it’s just as obvious that despite hurting her repeatedly, Declan loves Emily.  Even when she doesn’t think he’s there for her, he’s in the shadows doing what he can for her.

I am so looking forward to what’s to come next in this series.  Having read this prequel first, Jason’s story is next, which I can’t wait to read, but it’s Emily and Declan who I’m really looking forward to.  I know Jason’s going to be OK and he’s going to find that woman Emily said was going to be very lucky to have him.  But Emily and Declan have so much left unsaid.  So much that needs to be worked out, that I’m hoping we don’t have to wait too long to find out what happens with them.

K.M. “Kelsie” Galvin grew up in the South with Yankee parents, which made for a very confusing accent.

She loves music, books, blogging, Game of Thrones and coffee.

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