Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale Date:February 7th 2017
Pages: 288
Kailey Craine is enjoying a nice and fancy dinner with her fiancé Ryan in one of Seattle's exclusive restaurants. Kaileys has everything you can wish for in her life: a good job as a writer at the Herald, and she lives in a nice house with the most perfect soon-to-be-husband. When they leave the restaurant, Kailey sees a homeless guy on the street, and immediately recognizes him: she is 99% sure he is her ex-boyfriend Cade.
Years ago, he was the love of her life, but it all ended very suddenly when Cade's music business went downhill. Cade always was a goodlooking guy who seemed to have all the luck in life.
Now the homeless guy she sees on the street seem to have lost everything, and as she finds out later, he even lost his speech and memory. Kailey sets herself on a (secret) mission: to find out what happened to Cade after they broke up, and what went wrong in his life that led him to a life on the street, and most of all to help him back on track. Her boss at the Herald makes it an assignment for her. She doen't tell this to Ryan, who is away a lot on business trips, she uses his clothes for Cade, and their own money to get Cade in a center for rehabilitation, psychological and medical carebut when he finds out, something has already changed: Kailey has fallen in love again with Cade, and she has to decide between her old and her new life. But what is she can make a new life with her old boyfriend?
Always is another amazing and very entertaining book by Sarah Jio. I have read several other books by her previously, so I was looking forward for this one! The storyline and characters are very good. Totally unpredictable, as a reader you have no clue what is going to happen next. I really liked how Kailey tried to help Cade. What I also liked about her was the decision she has to make in the end between Ryan and Cade. The tree main characters steal your heart. All of three are not guilty or bad, it is just how it happens in their life at that moment. But of course, one of them is going to be hurt in the end.
I really liked this book. It has a lot of romance, plot twists and turns and it's just one of those books that is difficult to put down. It also brought up the social issues of homelessness, and that it can happen to everyone. Recommended read!