Abby Wilder

I know it’s only been less than a day since I finished FOREVER BLUE but gosh I really can’t stop thinking about that ending. But wait, let’s not get ahead of ourselves, shall we? Why don’t we start from the beginning?

―4 stars―

FOREVER BLUE alternates between two timelines ― the present which is told through Lennon’s perspective and the past which switches between Ruben and Judah’s perspectives. Frankly, I found this annoying at times as after like three chapters of flashbacks, I could barely remember what happened last in the present timeline. But overall, the story was beautifully written. There were some dull parts but it was able to keep readers in suspense by slowly giving us pieces of the puzzle and unravelling the mystery secret by secret.

The focus of the story, surprisingly, isn’t on Lennon, but rather, on Ruben and Judah’s story. We first learn of rumours that two years ago, Judah killed a girl, who so happened to be Cara’s sister, and later on, his own brother. Despite all evidence pointing to him being the one to commit those crimes, the police couldn’t proof that he was actually guilty, so he never went to jail. But nothing in this book is as it seems. What really happened two years ago?

I loved almost every character in the main cast of this book, even if they made stupid decisions or were highly judgemental of others. They were unique, and some of them, complex. We have Judah, the misunderstood brother who is often compared to his high-achieving brother. He falls in love with Cara, who doesn’t care much about how she acts or what she wears. Unfortunately for him, Cara doesn’t return his feelings and chooses Ruben instead, the golden boy who was able to fool everyone but his own brother. Then finally, there’s Lennon, the averagely pretty girl who is often shadowed by her cousin’s presence, so when she meets a boy who finally sees her, she can’t help but fall in love with him.

There was this short excerpt at the start of the book, and it ended with these two lines:

“I thought it was the end of everything. But I was wrong.”

When I finally arrived at that part 90% into the book, I was thinking, “We’ve come so far. What’s the worse that could happen?” Unknowingly, I had jinxed myself. I had prepped myself for heartbreak and tears, not for my heart to be ripped out and torned into pieces. My mind just went into shock for a while (“No this can not be happening.”), then the tears came (“Oh shit it really happened.”). While I want to know more about what happened to Lennon after the ending, it gave me some sort of closure. Like Lennon’s story has now come to an end and the story of another’s has just started, one we readers may never know of.

“I never thought it would end like this.
I never thought it would end at all.
But not all stories get a happy ending.”… (més)