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Aiden and Freya have been together for twelve plus years. And when faced with the reality that their marriage is in trouble, they are unsure what to do. Aiden’s anxiety is at an all-time high due to career pressure and family pressure that he doesn’t want to burden Freya. And Freya doesn’t recognize the man she is married to anymore. First, they try their hand at marriage counseling, but before they fully explore that, they are on a plane with Freya’s family celebrating her parent’s anniversary.

I struggled with this one. There seemed to be too many pages. Too many words. Too many characters. And I wondered if the latter had something to do with the fact that this was the third book in a series. I thought that it would be fine to start with this one. I was wrong.

As much as this was a book about two people who are trying to save their marriage, it was a book about family. Freya’s family played a huge part in her life and this book. All of them are deeply intertwined in Freya and Aiden trying to save their marriage.

I feel like I would have had to read the previous books to fully appreciate those relationships. I feel as if I didn’t get a good sense of their dynamics in this one. Yes, they are one of those families who seem like they will do anything and everything for each other. But what about those individual relationships with each other.

And I feel like there was not much explanation. But no one can be faulted, besides me since I read the third book in the series without reading the others.

I think this is true for a lot of books, that it's sometimes hard to get that momentum or investment when the book starts, and the couple is already together. I didn’t feel it as much as I normally do with this one because the author does nicely lay out the groundwork of their relationship. And although at times I had a hard time powering through this one, I did appreciate the relationship that Aiden and Freya had and their realistic frustrations with the current state of their relationship.

Final Thought

If Ever After Always is read in the correct order, it has potential.