Liam Westbury has the world at his feet. He’s the quintessential golden boy. He’s the superstar quarterback for Beaumont High. His girl, Josie, is head cheerleader. He has his choice of colleges just waiting for him. Except he’s suffocating from all the pressure he’s under and no one understands.
Liam Page is the heartthrob he never wanted to be. He’s successful, smart and in demand by record companies and his adoring fans. Music is his passion, his love, but something’s missing. His nights are lonely and he longs for the girl he left behind. Seeing her in every face in the crowd haunts him with the knowledge that she hates him. Going home has never been an option until now.
Be there when Liam Westbury becomes Liam Page and follow the highs and lows of the Quarterback turned Rockstar as he finds a way back to Beaumont in this prequel to Forever My Girl.
5 stars.
Love, angst, heartbreak, emotional.
Liam, Liam, Liam. I understand him so much better now. The story starts when Liam is in high school and with Josie, Mason and Katlyn. The pressure that he has on his shoulders is so heavy that I felt like I was carrying the weight of him on my shoulders. His father was not a father at all. Just a man who wanted to force Liam into a mold that Liam no longer wanted. Liam's mother was a void that did not help her son the way that a mother should have.
Josie should have payed more attention to the fact that Liam was suffocating in his own skin. I just think that when you are young, you really don't know any better. You see what you want to see and nothing else.
You can't fault her though. It's all she knew. Liam could have made her see what was going on in his head. But they were both young and at that age who the heck can communicate that well anyways. His parents were crap and Josie was a good girlfriend but she was so sold on the plan that they would go to college and Liam would then go into the NFL and they would live happily ever after.
The whole scene of Liam leaving Josie and going to California gutted me. GUTTED ME!!!
I knew it was coming but to to read more of everything that led up to Liam walking away from his life just opened the flood gates. I could not even think about walking away from everything that I know and love. Liam did it to save his sanity. I am glad that he got his time with his grandmother and had that family relationship that he desperately needed.
Here's the thing I got from this book. You can run away from your problems, you can think that there is something better on the other side. While you try to do something different with your life does not necessarily mean that you are going to happy with it. While Liam needed to get away and have a clean break, he learned that he should have communicated better, he should have fought for ALL the things that were important to him. But it all worked out in the end.
I am grateful that Heidi wrote this book. Liam's story really need to be told.
Heidi is the author of USA Today, Kobo, Digital Book World, Amazon and Barnes & Noble Bestselling novel, Forever My Girl
Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in picturesque Vermont, with her husband and two daughters. Also renting space in their home is an over-hyper Beagle/Jack Russell and two Parakeets.
During the day Heidi is behind a desk talking about Land Use. At night, she’s writing one of the many stories planned for release or sitting court-side during either daughter’s basketball games.
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