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Synopsis

Layla Warren first introduced us to Trip Wilmington in REMEMBER WHEN…
Now read his side of the story!

Trip Wiley wasn’t always a Hollywood movie star.
In fact, he wasn’t always Trip Wiley.
Back in 1990, he was better known as Trip Wilmington, the new kid in town.
New place, new school… same old story.
No big deal. It’s not like this is the first time he’s been forced to start over.
But seventeen years of city living hasn’t prepared him for life in the suburbs…
or for Layla Warren.
Layla is smart, funny, beautiful… the kind of girl every guy dreams about.
Trip should know.
He’s been falling for her since the first minute he saw her.
And his life hasn’t been the same since.

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Prepare to travel back to your teen years… That time in your life before the real world kicked in, that limbo between adolescence and adulthood, that trial of hanging onto the past while figuring out where the future will lie.

With heart-shredding romance, steamy love scenes, and hilarious 80s references, readers of all ages will find themselves falling in love with TRIP all over again.

***Author’s note: This is no copy/paste job. This is a brand new story that fills in the blanks during Trip and Layla’s separation while still bringing all the magic moments of the two of them together.

It is highly recommended–but not required–that you read Remember When prior to reading TRIP.

 

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Review

Absolutely fantastic!

4.5 stars

This is such a fun read! A-retelling of the fabulous Remember When, but this time from the POV of teen hero Trip Wilmington (soon to be mega movie-star). This is a sweet, heartfelt, teen-angsty, romantic and sexy story of a high school love story between two souls who were definitely meant to be.

Trip has just moved to new Jersey with his parents for his father’s work. No stranger to moving and starting over, his home life may be difficult but he is easygoing, smart and mature for his years, and he throws himself into his senior year of high school, easily becoming one of the popular crew. And then he meets Layla Warren. Beautifully and witty, Layla knocks him on his ass in every way possible, his attraction to her immediate and all-consuming, and I loved being in his head as we get to experience his crush in all of its teenaged-boy glory.

We actually made pretty great friends. It was kind of weird to think we’d only known each other for two weeks. It felt like I’d known her a lot longer. And I know she felt the same.
What can I say? Sometimes, when it comes to certain people, you just click.
I still wanted to suck her face, however.

The tricky thing is though, that Layla has an on-off boyfriend and Trip isn’t really sure where he stands with her, so he’s content to be her friend and get to know her, all the while hoping for something more.

As bad as my lips wanted to kiss her, my brain wouldn’t allow me to go through with it. Maybe it was the way her eyes were staring right through me. The way my heart was hammering out of my chest.
I never thought twice about it with other girls, but the thing was, Layla wasn’t just another girl. Something was different with her. Something that told me everything would change the first second our lips met. Not just everything between us, but everything in my life.

I love a good YA love story, and this one is gorgeous! Trip and Layla become the best of friends, and watching that develop was sweet and so much fun. The banter, teasing and joking is great, I love their sweet and deep moments, and you can feel the emotional connection between them as we follow them through ups and downs, and the confusing angst of hormonally-charged emotions. And then we get this beautifully developing romance, and when they finally reached the point where they made it happen I was in a world of swoony, teenage-loved-up bliss.

As I bounded out the kitchen door, I saw everyone milling about in the driveway, attempting to cram all our worldly goods into their respective vehicles. Layla was leaning against her car, the sunlight bouncing off her dark brown hair, and I swear to God, the world around her disappeared. I had tunnel vision as I walked straight toward her, dropped my bag on the ground, and pulled her to me for a kiss. I was pretty sure all our friends were watching and I didn’t care. I always knew this girl was created to be in my arms. It was about time everyone else realized it, too.

“You’re all I want, Lay. Just you.”

So swooooooony!!!!

But there’s so much more to this story than just a romance. It’s a coming-of-age story as Trip deals with the difficulties of his home life, and the direction of his future. His confusion is completely relatable as he tries to figure it all out, and I loved that we got to experience that with him. And set against the background of the late 80s, the sense of nostalgia just adds to the fun as Trip, Lalya and their friends tease, share and goof around, and get ready to head out into the big, wide world.

Tonight was marking the first of many goodbyes yet to come as we all took off in different directions across the map to live out the next chapters of our lives. Would we ever be in the same place like this ever again? Would we remember who we were to each other? Would we grow up and forget to be idiots?
Maturity blows.

I loved this book! When I started reading, I thought this was going to be the retelling of the entire trilogy in one book, and was honestly a bit disappointed when I started it and realised that it was only the first book and not the entire story. But the more I read, the happier I was because I freaking loved it! It’s been a while since I read Remember When and I had forgotten a lot of the details, so I love that we got so much of it here and I cannot WAIT to see the next two instalments brought to life by Trip because he is a master narrator for his story, and after that ending (which brought me to tears even though I knew it was coming), and knowing where things go from here, I need more!

“Don’t ever ask me to stop loving you, because I can’t. don’t ever think I’ll be able to forget you, because I won’t.

Such a great read, I loved it! 4.5 stars.

An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review

 

Remember When

 

Remember Trilogy

(The original story from Layla’s POV)

 

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Excerpt 18

I slammed my locker shut, navigated to room 124 just as the bell rang, and handed my admittance slip to the teacher. She stopped what she was doing to fold her hands across her desk, greeting me with an enthusiastic, “Well, good afternoon to you!”

I gave her a polite smile as she checked out my stats. “Welcome to St. Nicetius, Terrence.” I didn’t get the chance to correct her about my name because she quickly added, “You can take the desk over there by the windows. Last row, behind Miss Warren.”

I’d been waiting for Rymer’s assessment of Mrs. Mason to prove true, but she didn’t seem “tough” at all. In fact, she seemed kind of nice. Maybe he was just breaking my balls.

In any case, I followed her pointed finger as Miss Warren looked up from her seat and…

Wow.

I was still distracted by the whole personality thing, so I wasn’t expecting to be met with the most incredible brown eyes I’d ever seen in my life. Warm. Fathomless. Almost too large for her face.

Damn. I’d met lots of pretty girls in my life, but she… I don’t know, man. She did something to me. I stood there paralyzed, conscious of nothing but the sensation of my heart actually lurching in my chest.

Huh. That was a new one.

 

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