My huge thanks to Dani Atkins for sending me a copy of his latest book Always you and me. It is absolutely a pleasure to share my review today.
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I expected Always you and me It could be one of my weekly criticisms of My My Weekly, but unfortunately the restructuring and recent dismissals mean that I already have seven reviews awaiting new criticism at this time.
Always you and me It is published in Rustic for Lake Union Today, April 1, 2025, and is available for purchase here.
Always you and me
The best -selling author of Fractured arrives a moving, moving and edifying novel of love, hope and second opportunities.
So…
On the eve of her wedding with Adam, Lily’s best friend, Josh, unexpectedly came out of her life, and she has not seen it since then.
Lily and Adam are happy, until she gets sick. While she cares about him in her last hours, Adam asks him to make a mysterious promise: find Josh, and forgive them both.
This winter …
Josh’s follow -up is not easy, but fate seems determined to unite them. Cut in his remote Scottish cabin for a fierce snowstorm, Lily and Josh explore their entangled feelings by each other, which extends backwards over the decades. But when you discover the shocking reason behind Adam’s unexpected desire, he will need to completely trust his heart …
Can Lily and Josh choose love, and find forgiveness and lasting happiness together?
My usual review you and me
Lily has a promise to maintain.
Always you and me It is one of those books that grabs your heart from the first page and simply does not release it. It is totally wonderful and I worshiped him without reservations.
There is an intensity of emotion because essentially the narrative revolves around Lily, Adam and Josh with only a few minor characters to be as if we were discovering the most internal thoughts of these three. Lily’s narrative voice is perfection and Dani Atkins uses that voice to deepen Josh’s heart so that as we learn about Lily we also learn about Josh and Vice Versa. They are as intertwined as two DNA threads. And yet, it is Adam who starts the action. It is he who has shaped Lily and Josh’s destiny. Although he is not physically present for almost the entire novel, I felt that he knew him intimately, because Lily showed me with acute scalpel clarity and, however, as is true for all relationships, she did not know everything completely. In fact, I thought about the way the characters developed in Always you and me It was excellent.
The plot is magnificent. He is so realistic, so absorbing and so convincing that he does not feel like fiction at all. I really forgot that I was reading about the life of the characters in a book. Obviously, I cannot spoil the reading revealing too much, but I found all aspects of realistic and heartbreaking history to the same extent. At the same time, there is a wonderful and natural humor that frequently comes through direct discourse, doing Always you and me Feel balanced and absorbent.
The issues of love, the family, the way in which our past shapes our present, pain, marriage, loyalty and paternity are threaded throughout the book, providing a tapestry of life and humanity in a beautifully written narrative that makes the book perfect in execution.
I am aware that I have not said much, but if you read the story for yourself, you will appreciate how difficult it is not to reveal too much and spoil reading for others. Painfully romantic and deeply emotional, Always you and me It is completely wonderful and cannot be lost, even if it broke me completely. This will be a difficult book to win for my favorite reading of 2025.
About Dani Atkins
Dani Atkins is an award -winning novelist. Your 2013 debut Fractured (published as then and always in North America) has resulted in more than twenty languages and has sold more than half a million copies since the first publication in the United Kingdom.
Dani is the author of ten best -selling novels (Fractured; The history of us; Our song; This love; While I was sleeping; One million dreams; A sky full of stars; The wedding dress; Six days and The memory of us) and two electronic book novels: Perfect strangers and When I wake up.
This love, A sky full of stars and Six days All have won Romantic Novelist Association awards.
Dani lives in a small town in Hertfordshire with her husband, a Siamese cat and a very soft border Collie.
For more information, follow Dani on Twitter/X @atkinsdani or Search for Facebook and Instagram.
