Forever Mine

Westin Pack Series, Book 3

By: Julie Trettel

Narrated by: Joe Hempel, Carly Robins

Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's Summary

What do you do when you're confronted with the ghost of the only girl you ever loved?

Liam Westin has carried a secret crush on his twin sister's best friend for most of his life. When she goes missing and is presumed dead as a teen, it nearly destroys him. Now the newest and youngest CEO of the Westin Foundation, his life is finally on track, until he comes face to face with the woman he's always loved. She has a lot of secrets and isn't the same as he remembers. Can his love mend her wounds? Or are there too many obstacles between them now?

Madelyn Collier at 16 years old snuck out in rebellion to attend a concert forbidden to her. Her life was changed forever that night. Humiliated and scared, barely surviving, she never returns home again. Living under a new name in the human world, Maddie harbors many secrets while battling severe anxiety and depression over the events that occurred. Is the damage too deep, or will she be able to open herself to love? Can they get past all that's happened to find their happily ever after?  

Contains mature themes.

©2017 Julie Trettel (P)2018 Tantor

Why? Just why?

Seriously, who thought a gang rape, PTS and anxiety disorders would be a great premise for a Romance novel?

Spoilers:
How did that meeting go with the publisher?
Author:
“Picture it a girl gets gang raped and left to die in a dumpster, only to survive and find out she’s pregnant by one of the 6 guys.” ! ... “ok so years later she falls in love with her childhood sweetheart but can’t be intimate with him without having flashbacks about the gang rape. Also she suffers from anxiety about being away from her son, but when she finally starts to relax, she’ll leave the boy with her fiancé and we can write a whole chapter about him not having a booster seat for the child to sit in and yet put him in the front seat of a sports car”
Publisher:
Wow what a great idea! Think about all those mothers out there wanting to have a little escape from life via a romance novel... who wouldn’t want to imagine themselves as this character!

Seriously, whoever gave the green light for this novel needs to transfer to a different department, your idea of what women want in their fantasy romance is light years away from this!

Kids rule

I have listened to the first 3 books in this series and out of all the characters Oscar is the Bomb he is the best of all I wish he was in the books more

This series is about a BUNCH of runway females

I can not take women who don’t have back bone. Now this is a tough topic but this book is full with emotion inconsistency. I can’t go back and buy my family through this but I fine with putting a child through the same thing.

Great romantic mystery ,with strong characters. En

Loved the unique. story. The twists and turns kept the outcome intriguing. The narration as on point.

Not my favorite

I like this series and, in the past two books, I enjoyed the different struggles and drama between the two mains and the different packs but this one just felt like filler. There was no real antagonist, though some possible antagonists were introduced, and it just didn't grab me the way the others did. I didn't find the relationship very compelling either. I think the only part I liked about this book was Oscar and I don't even like kids. There were a few redeeming moments but overall, I feel like it could have been so much better if more emphasis was placed on plot over Maddie's past and the issues caused by it.

Absolutely, loved book 3!

I really enjoyed this book, because it was a really unique story that involved a child. It really took me through different emotions that I did not expect. I really wish that we would have seen Oscar change into his animal form before ending the book, but other than that, it was a very good story that reminds us how the Westin's really do stick together.

Loved, it!!

Another good one!!!

Great story. I’m enjoying the evolution of the Westin Pack. I’m going to be sad when I finish the series.

great addition to the series

loved the difference of this book from the first in the series.. and that it continues to include the previous character's

Good story, but not the best.

So it is very enjoyable, but so many loose ends and weird resolutions. Like Maddy is the main character who was violently attacked then ran away from her family and started a new life with her son. Two people adopted her until she was old enough to be an adult, and was eventually found by her true mate 7 years later. Her wolf part supposedly died and she was too embarrassed to return home. Now when she eventually goes home, several things go on, including telling her parents she was alive. Several events go on, she rescues a huge group of shifters, builds a house but no more communication with her family. Eventually she married her mate, but her whole family was too busy to attend...? I several sisters and her mom and dad, who worried every day and never lost hope that she was alive, couldn't make it to her wedding? Not that that was a huge part of the book, but it was weird. It was a good book though. Great narration!

AWFUL!

Madelyn Collier sneaks out to go to a concert with her friend when she is supposed to be grounded.After the concert they hook up with SIX STRANGE MEN & go drinking The friend leaves her with the SIX STRANGERS to go to the restroom & when the friend comes back Madelyn Collier & the SIX STRANGE MEN are no where to be found. THE SIX STRANGE MEN ABDUCTED, RAPED, BEAT & LEFT MADDY FOR DEAD IN A DUMPSTER. After being found in the dumpster & taken to the hospital, does Maddy reach out for her family? NOPE...She changes her name to Jane & goes to live with 2 MORE STRANGERS ,leaving her family to think that she's dead, She then discovers she's pregnant. Fast forward 8 years & Jane (Maddy),her son Oscar & her foster parents run into Liam Westin, her best friends twin brother. & her true mate.After Liam takes her & Oscar home, she has one very brief conversation (days later) with her parents who have been grieving her loss for 8 years & when she married Liam, only her sister was at the wedding after 8 years of the family holding memorials for her. Really? In 8 hrs and 51 mins it seems that nobody thought to get Maddy some serious professional help for her trauma.They just left it up to 7 year old Oscar to take care of her until Liam showed up.Although there was other good stuff in this book that added to the story , I just couldn't get over the stupidity of drinking with 6 men that you just met. Even a teenager knows that's not a good idea..It seems in this series the women just keep getting dumber..

I am binge listening these books

I love these books! the story lines are so good! thank goodness I can binge listen to them, they are definitely my new obsession

really good serie

i really like this serie even if i prefer when in wolf form shifter lose control while in this serie they keep being in control. eniway i love it