The Boy I Grew Up With

By: Tijan

Narrated by: Blake Richard, Summer Morton

Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

I have loved Channing Monroe all my life.

In first grade, he asked for my Trapper Keeper.

I hit him in the head with it.

Third grade, we were best friends. We kissed in seventh grade.

In eighth grade, he turned into a bad boy and the rest was a tumultuous storm.

Growing up, the problem was never love for us. Bad times. Good times. There were times when I felt our love in every inch of my body, vibrating, making me feel like it could bring me back to life.

The problem was us.

The problem is that we're living in two different worlds now. Fallen Crest and its millionaires for me. Roussou and their criminals for him. I was thriving in mine and he was running his.

But... But there were nights I felt we couldn't be further apart than we were, and there were nights I felt we shared the same heartbeat.

When was it time?

When was it time to either sacrifice, make a change, or walk away from the boy I grew up with?

©2018 Tijan (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

Another #1

Tijan did it again. I wish this series never ended or hopefully we have at least 1,2,3 or more GET MY drift. This is defiantly worth the read on or in my case listen 😜

A beautiful story packed with everything

What a rollercoaster of a book! It follows the ups and downs of Heather and Channing, who’ve known each other since first grade, and been a couple almost since. Now they’re in their twenties, and life hasn’t been nice with them. Sometimes they stick together, sometimes they tear each other apart. And you have all of that in the book--including flashbacks of their early years.

I enjoyed it a lot because, instead of witnessing the umpteenth seducing process, I could read--or listen to--about how a couple deals with their problems. Not always in the most mature way--because they’re still young--but I liked the novelty.

It was emotional, to say the least. Heather is a strong independant woman, who takes care of everything and everyone--a crew mindset, Channing would say--but can only lean on her lover. And Channing is a reliable and adoring man when he’s with her. She’s the princess in his life, he loves her that much. A beautiful couple.

I also liked the supporting characters, they’re pretty colorful. Between the snobish stalker, the psycho manager and the powerless playboy, they made for a fun read. A good way to release the tension between the intense scenes with Heather and Jax.

But I think the audiobook wasn’t the best way to discover this beautiful piece. Although the female voice was really good, I couldn’t care less for the male voice. He almost put me to sleep, barely whispering his lines... Thankfully, Heather/her voice have the most lines.

If you want to read a beautiful story packed with everything--violence and romance and drama--this is the one you should read.

A spin off

I had a hard time getting into this story. I felt like I was missing something. When I asked a friend she told me that this was a spin off from another series. That is fine except I couldn't follow certain things. I will revisit after I listen to the first series.

Narrators Blake Richard and Summer Morton do a great job at telling the story, I just need the holes to be filled in.

not a typical romance but good story

This is my first time for this story as well as the author. After reading the review and summary, I decided to give it a try and dive in Heather and Channing story. I really enjoyed their story and for being so young, the love for each was still strong, I love this couple's journey to adulthood. They both have issues that they had to deal alone and with each other. The author did a good job by bring some past details without overdone. I did appreciate that. Both narrators did superb job on reading this story. As a die hard audiobook listener, the narrator can break or make the story even if it's good. This story can be listen/read as stand alone but if you love this author writing, I would recommend this one.

loved it!!

I could not stop listening. Great story, loved learning more of Heather and Channings story. Ive always been curious since reading about them in the Fallen Crest series. Really enjoyed the narrating.

Good story

This might be my least favourite Tijan book, but it was still alright. I just found some of it a little boring myself. There just wasn’t a whole lot of excitement throughout, in my opinion.
The narrators did a great job though!
I probably wouldn’t re-read/listen to this one again, but I’m still considering listening to Crew sometime in the future! (MMC little sister’s book)

Love it <3

own e copy, a paper back copy n audio copy of this book. I love Tijan's books! This one is one of my fav. 😉

WOW THAT WAS AMAZING ❣

Tijan this story took my breath away ❣ It's one that will stay with you ❣

Yes yes yes

I didn’t want this to end. But the entire book was bliss. I need more of all of these characters.

Love this couple

This book was so good, I loved reading about Heather and Channing. It was interesting to see what their day to day life was like and it was great reading about their past together as kids and teens. In this story they have some ups and downs, some heartbreaking times, some revelations, and some hard choices that needed to be made. I love how tough Heather is and watching her navigate her business, her family, and her love life is wonderful. Channing is strong, loyal, sexy and he loves Heather so much. It was nice meeting some new characters and I can’t wait to read Crew next. The ending was so fantastic, I loved reading about not only their future but also the futures of some other characters I love, is there a possible future story here featuring the children of our favorite characters lol. The narrators were great, Blake had the perfect voice for Channing, just what I pictured he would sound like.