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A review by areadinggem
The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce
5.0
"Time is a miracle. It shows you what you had, and sometimes it brings it back to you. Different. Better."
This book ruined me and healed me in the absolute best way possible. It had no business making me tear up so much!!
So many emotions, so much pain and angst, laughter and humor, love and longing... I genuinely felt it all seeping through the pages and aiming straight to my heart.
"How strange it is to have a first for the second time. How lucky and messy and perfect"
The romance was so beautifully painful. I felt like my heart was caught up in my throat, and unshed tears were in my eyes while reading. It felt like I was the one in Georgia's shoes, drowning in all the emotions she was feeling for Eli.
"Because when he's messiest, that's when I see myself reflected in him."
Reading about Georgia's anxiety, her issues that stemmed from abandonment, not feeling enough, not wanting to be too much... It made my heart ache. The character development was very well written, depicting how Georgia finally realized that being honest and voicing out how she truly felt, what she truly needed, was more freeing than she ever expected. That being messy was okay.
"Eli is the living embodiment of it's always the quiet ones."
Eli, oh Eli. He's a man of few words, but his actions speak so much louder. The way he loves, so deeply, so unconditionally, was evident. But even he had his own battles to overcome. The determination to make up for all the lost time, the understanding, the PAPER RINGS. Everything he did and said was so perfect yet so painful.
"Isn't that the way I deserve to be loved - completely, messily, imperfectly? Isn't that the way I deserve to love myself? And isn't it what Eli deserves, too?"
The writing style was so beautiful. I loved the way the author expresses the characters' feelings and alternates between the past and the present and how, at times, it felt like they were mixing together, the now and then. It just added so much depth and intensified the pain, the need, and the longing between Georgia and Eli. Even the intimate scenes in this book were very emotional and poetic.
I truly loved everything about The Ex Vows, and I specifically loved everything about the perfectly imperfect mess that is Georgia and Eli.
If you haven't already, READ IT! You won't regret it. But bring tissues
This book ruined me and healed me in the absolute best way possible. It had no business making me tear up so much!!
So many emotions, so much pain and angst, laughter and humor, love and longing... I genuinely felt it all seeping through the pages and aiming straight to my heart.
"How strange it is to have a first for the second time. How lucky and messy and perfect"
The romance was so beautifully painful. I felt like my heart was caught up in my throat, and unshed tears were in my eyes while reading. It felt like I was the one in Georgia's shoes, drowning in all the emotions she was feeling for Eli.
"Because when he's messiest, that's when I see myself reflected in him."
Reading about Georgia's anxiety, her issues that stemmed from abandonment, not feeling enough, not wanting to be too much... It made my heart ache. The character development was very well written, depicting how Georgia finally realized that being honest and voicing out how she truly felt, what she truly needed, was more freeing than she ever expected. That being messy was okay.
"Eli is the living embodiment of it's always the quiet ones."
Eli, oh Eli. He's a man of few words, but his actions speak so much louder. The way he loves, so deeply, so unconditionally, was evident. But even he had his own battles to overcome. The determination to make up for all the lost time, the understanding, the PAPER RINGS. Everything he did and said was so perfect yet so painful.
"Isn't that the way I deserve to be loved - completely, messily, imperfectly? Isn't that the way I deserve to love myself? And isn't it what Eli deserves, too?"
The writing style was so beautiful. I loved the way the author expresses the characters' feelings and alternates between the past and the present and how, at times, it felt like they were mixing together, the now and then. It just added so much depth and intensified the pain, the need, and the longing between Georgia and Eli. Even the intimate scenes in this book were very emotional and poetic.
I truly loved everything about The Ex Vows, and I specifically loved everything about the perfectly imperfect mess that is Georgia and Eli.
If you haven't already, READ IT! You won't regret it. But bring tissues