Travis

I liked this book. It gives the closure needed after Archers voice but I wish it was more romantic.

I guess it was nice? Not a lot happened. Certainly no where near the calibre of Archers a voice. 5/10

Not as great as Archers voice but still thoroughly enjoyed! Nice that Travis had redemption 🥳

Travis Hale and Haven Torres are “temporary friends…With benefits went unsaid.” When a fortune telling neighbor foretells Travis’ future, she sees, “There are one of two paths for you. Either you lose it all. Or lose it all…Maybe there were many different sorts of losing. And we each had to weigh our choices. Choose which hand to discard so that we might win the bigger pot.” Haven also has a choice to make. She can either walk away because Travis Hale doesn't have much left in the way of material possessions. “It seems you’ve lost it all.” Or she can come over and kiss him silly “because as it turns out, your heart is made of gold, even if it’s a bit tarnished.” But when Haven and her brother finally decide to set down roots, her every fear and insecurity is summed up in two words. “Most unwanted. We don’t belong in…this perfect town where people drank lemonade on their porches and set apple pies to cool on windowsills while their children played in sprinklers watering lush, green lawns. They didn’t even know the half of it when it came to who we really were. The extent to which we didn’t belong. What would they all say then…Run away. We had to.” “Maybe the terrible truth about love is that when it’s gone, it leaves a hole in your heart so big it feels like nothing will ever fill it…All the things that have brought us pain carve a distinct hole in our heart, and there’s someone else out there with the perfect something that will fill the void. And in turn, we get to do the same for them…It all fits. Because we haven’t been forsaken. We’ve been prepared.” “Families reunited, friendships reconciled, consciences cleared, forgiveness and repentance spread far and wide. Pelion is a more beautiful place” because of a shame manifesto, a town hall confessional and a willingness to love “fully and wholeheartedly, until withered things that had the will to thrive found the strength to do so.”