Oh Bea and Liam 😫

What can I say about this story? Well there is a lot yet still so little. My heart broke reading about Bea and Liam. It broke so much that I couldn't get myself to write a review on it. So here I am a few weeks later writing it up.

The story follows Bea a sweet girl who loves watching the stars and learning about astronomy. When her best friends cousin moves in next door she can't help falling for the young boy at first sight.

Liam has only one thing on his mind, going pro in baseball. However when he sees Bea he can't help the way his heart yearns for her.

As young love is they begin to see each other a lot more but with both their love changing around them things get a little difficult.

Bea's mother remarries and she's thrown to live with not only a new dad but a step brother. A brother named Connor who is not anything like she imagined. He states at her constantly and makes her feel uncomfortable.

It's not until a few years later when Bea's love Liam decides to go to college out of town that her life changes. For the next ten odd years she's forced to isolate herself from the world. She's forced to live in fear as her step brother rapes her every night.

Her parents don't see anything different expect her distance. Her best friends hardly sees her anymore and knows something is wrong. The love of Bea's life isn't around to protect her and for that she has no one but herself.

It's heartbreaking to read and follows a topic that in most books is brushed over lightly. In this read you see the nitty gritty which makes it not only more painful but more real.

It's a wake up call of a read that despite falling down into an abyss you can pull yourself through.
When Bea is given a second chance not only with the love of her life but to regain the life she lost she takes it even if it is tentaively.

She shows that even having to go through something so traumatic there is a way out. A way to gain back the life you deserve.

As much pain as this read delivers it shows redemption and strength too. It's not a read for sensitive readers but it is a story that every person should hear becuase you never know who may be going through something similar.

A daring story and heartbreaking show of how second chances really can be worth everything.

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Bea and Liam!

Bea was a happy and healthy teenager who had a great relationship with her mother and her best friend Myrah lived next door. When her mother remarries her life is forever changed and she will never be the same again.

Liam has been sent to live with his cousin Myrah and her family to correct his bad behavior. Bea spent as little time at home as she could so that meant spending a lot of time at her neighbors. Liam and Bea become close and he becomes her safe place but when he left Lakeport she was left alone once again with no help in sight.

Six years later Liam is back to see the only girl that he has ever loved but the Bea he finds is not the Bea he left. The atrocities that Bea has had to deal with for the last six years has changed her and uncovering the truth could break both of them.

This is an emotional story that will break your heart and put it back together. Bea has endured so much in her life and she doesn’t know where to turn so she takes it all upon herself. Liam is so determined and patient and he shows Bea that he is the one person she can trust and depend on. The narrators did a great job of bringing the emotion and angst of this story to life.

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Amazing emotional

Loved this book, I was rooting for bea throughout, a gripping and emotional storyline, brilliant

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Absolutely fantastic

This is my first ever audible. I have tried listening to others before but gave up. Maybe I just wasn’t in the right frame of mind.

I read this book earlier on in the year but as I loved it so much I couldn’t resist listening to it too.

ACHE is an all-new emotionally charged second chance romance by S.M. Soto.
‘What happens when you fall for the boy next door?'

Emotionally charged... yep that’s true.

After reading this story I still wanted more so I read the authors note to her readers. The author tells us of her struggle to release this. Of how difficult it was to write due to the subject matter. I’m so glad she found the strength to release this story as it needs to be read.

Bea believed she had everything she wanted in life. She was even happier when Liam entered her life. He gave her the happiness she didn’t know she was missing.

Then he left.

He took her heart with him.

She broke.

Liam has missed Bea so much. When he returns he sees a very different Bea.

He needs to find out what happened her.

Can they move forward or will Liam find closure.

This is certainly going to be one of my favourite stories this year. My heart broke for these characters over and over again. I knew what I wanted to happen but did I get it?

A heart wrenching but beautifully told story that will stay with me for a long time x

The narrators did a fantastic job. Let me say that if I didn’t like it straight away I’d have stopped like I’ve done previously but these narrators were awesome. They literally brought the story to life.

After listening to this I’ll certainly be trying Audible again.

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My Aching heart!!!

Oh my LANTA!!! this story is painful in every single way possible! Seriously when I say my heart is aching, it is. This is brutal. There was only one area where I wish we received more. I feel like Jenny should have revisited after the scene with her. I would have loved an apology. SM Soto is a pro in pulling out emotions. I was literally yelling at the characters throughout this story. I kept begging the friends to look... or the parents to see. Hindsight is always 20/20 and all that jazz.

The performers were brilliant. Ava Erickson sounded like a kicked puppy... I thn k that's what they were going for when the story is so traumatizing. Joe Arden is emotional and so strong. I can't even explain how they both spoke strait to my soul, hitting it!!

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