A Love Letter to Whiskey

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The very first time I tasted whiskey, I fell flat on my face. Literally. I was drunk from the very first sip, and I guess that should've been my sign to stay away. I shrugged, “Just makes sense. You’re practically whiskey on legs, anyway. The color of your hair, your eyes, the way you smell — it’s like your spirit drink." She was like 'Midnight Rain' to Jamie's Sunshine and they fought 'The Great War' to find their happiness. Bonus Content including letters from the author, fun facts and behind the scenes, as well as a note from the audiobook narrator⁣⁣

although i hate the cheating trope, this is one of those situations where the writing worked perfectly imo because of the emotions it brought out in me. yes, there were times when i wished certain characters made different decisions and i got frustrated because of it but, despite everything, i honestly have no doubts when it comes to Jamie and B's romance and these two still managed to have me rooting for them from the moment they met until the epilogue. ♡ Closure: This didn't have nearly enough closure for me. I think this is my biggest complaint about the book. I would (reluctantly) call it a HEA. i read romance because it’s fun to fall in love. and with romance books, i get to do it over and over. i get to be different types of lovers, i get to feel the heartbreak of love and the successes. love is the most powerful and real emotion we feel, and i think it’s sort of magical that we can experience some of the greatest loves of all times through books.”THEY SAY TIMING IS EVERYTHING, and I was beginning to learn that timing was everything but kind to Jamie and me. It turned out a Whiskey stain was just as permanent as ink, and I wondered if I would ever truly wash myself clean. I couldn't think of one scenario where he would lose me forever, because a piece of my soul was tied to that boy and I had already lost so much of myself at that age, I refused to let go of what little I still held onto." I was water, he was whiskey, and I couldn’t dilute him — not now that I knew he loved me enough to let me. I needed to be stronger, to be ice the next time I melted with him.” Jamie was a hero I liked from the beginning. I liked the way he was with B, the way he loved her and how much he valued their friendship. These two characters' story was full of ups and downs. Their relationship was fantastically portrayed and as much as I found it to be frustrating and so full of misunderstandings, I loved it. While I didn’t really love these two characters individually, I loved them together. I wanted so badly to start properly communicate with each other, to forget about everything and everyone, to trust their hearts and to finally learn how to be happy TOGETHER.

I think, my first mistake, was going into this with high hopes, I've heard it was so good I wouldn't be able to put it down, that the angst was phenomenal and I wouldn't regret it, and as a self-proclaimed angst-whore there wasn't much to be said to convince me.... This book thaught me to be careful who I trust next time. If I was whiskey, then she was the barrel that held me, that helped me age, that made me better. I needed her. And nothing else would do.” Not to mention how many times they ghosted each other for YEARS... so much for being so in love they couldn't stay away from each other. There's books that make you feel every word that author has agonised over for months and this author has done that for me with this book. I've felt everything she's strived to make me feel, the angst, the heartbreak, the highs and lows, the deception, the hurt and those are to name a few. To say this book put me threw the wringer and then spat me out at the other end broken is an understatement, I felt like a yoyo on a string, high one minute low the next, such a mixture of emotions.I wasn’t sorry the first time I kissed you, even when you weren’t mine, and I’m not sorry I kissed you the other night, even when I wasn’t yours. Because the truth is you’ve always been mine, and I’ll always be yours, and that’s just the way it is." reason : He chose her best friend first and they weren't really in love so... um have y'all ever heard of break up? B and Jamie's friendship and relationship was everything and they were so right for each other and yet so wrong. Their friendship was endearing and it started because of their love for music and surfing and they were each other's comfort person. Their attraction to each other was palpable like damn it was love mixed with lust. Whether they were sad or happy they just wanted to share that thing first with each other. They fit so well together in each other's life but they were just in denial for years. They blamed it on timing but timing has always been right for them they just ignored it. And I get why B needed time because she was dealing with grief and she couldn't be together with Jamie at that point the way he wanted her to be but that man always loved her and waited for her for years and when it was her time to wait for him she didn't. And that part literally shattered my heart because he deserved that happiness and he wanted it with her.

It was just him - the old friend, the easy smile, the twisted solace wrapped in a glittering bottle. Oh and Kandi, the epilogue. One of the best epilogues I've ever read! Despite the fact that I cried like a baby AGAIN! I always loved that, the first sight of him, the first hit. It was a little jarring, like a slight burn, but the aftertaste was smooth, welcoming, like an old friend calling me home."It turned out I was water, he was whiskey, and I couldn’t dilute him —not now that I knew he loved me enough to let me. I needed to be stronger, to be ice the next time I melted with him.” Well, this is all their story is about: Wrong timing & bad decisions… Their love, lust, desperation, want, need, pain, fear, guilt, regret, loss, anger, resentment… It is all about that, too.