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Friends Forever
Sometimes your best friend can be your worst enemy.
Successful attorney Molly Reid thought she had put the past behind her. But when the body of her flaky but lovable college roommate, Sarah, is discovered abandoned in a field, Molly is drawn back into the tangled incestuous world of Devereaux College. At Sarah’s wake, Molly confronts her ex-fiancé, a suddenly attentive former big-man-on-campus, the bitchy college friends who still treat Molly like the slutty wrong-side-of-the-tracks scholarship student she once was, and Sarah’s mother, who forces Molly to take Sarah’s rehab journals.
As Molly sifts through Sarah’s scrawled journal entries, she discovers Sarah was not a lovable kook but rather an intelligent, but damaged, woman. The journals become for Molly a Pandora’s Box of secrets. Will Sarah’s secrets topple Molly’s carefully constructed facade?
Successful attorney Molly Reid thought she had put the past behind her. But when the body of her flaky but lovable college roommate, Sarah, is discovered abandoned in a field, Molly is drawn back into the tangled incestuous world of Devereaux College. At Sarah’s wake, Molly confronts her ex-fiancé, a suddenly attentive former big-man-on-campus, the bitchy college friends who still treat Molly like the slutty wrong-side-of-the-tracks scholarship student she once was, and Sarah’s mother, who forces Molly to take Sarah’s rehab journals.
As Molly sifts through Sarah’s scrawled journal entries, she discovers Sarah was not a lovable kook but rather an intelligent, but damaged, woman. The journals become for Molly a Pandora’s Box of secrets. Will Sarah’s secrets topple Molly’s carefully constructed facade?
- GenresRomance
122 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 15, 2015
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About the author
Bernadette Walsh
21 books169 followersWhen Bernadette is not annoying her fellow commuters on the Long Island Rail Road with the tap-tap-tapping of her computer, she enjoys eating chocolate and indulging in her favorite mind candy -- reality TV.
While Bernadette has hopped around genres, from paranormal romance to humorous romance to serious women's fiction, all of her books to date have a common theme: strong women handling what life throws at them the best way they can.
Bernadette has written seven novels: Gold Coast Wives (contemporary romance); The Devlin Witch (paranormal romance); The Girls on Rose Hill (women's fiction); Friends Forever (women's fiction), Cold Spring (women's fiction), Johnny Be Good (women's fiction) and See Me (paranormal romance). She is also the host of NICE GIRLS READING NAUGHTY BOOKS on BlogTalkRadio http://www.blogtalkradio.com/search?q...
Bernadette’s Website: http://www.bernadettewalsh.com
Reader eMail: bernadettewalsh.author@gmail.com
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December 31, 2019
4.5 stars
You want emotion, characters that you can’t forget, a story that compels you to keep reading? I highly recommend you read author Bernadette Walsh. Forever Friends is the second book that I have read by this author, who is a stunning storyteller.
Forever Friends (written several years before her latest book Johnny Be Good, which is doing great on Amazon) shares similar themes of betrayal and redemption, suffering and love. Strong characters with powerful feelings and drives confront their outer worlds and their own inner problems. “Beneath my silky exterior lay a black hollow void.”
Molly O’Connor tells us her story in the first person. She is the daughter of divorced Irish immigrants. She lives with her mother and they are close. Her Irish heritage gave her beauty, brains and drive, as well as powerful emotions and deep feelings. Her father’s absence has heart her deeply.
The book begins with Molly attending a funeral, in the present day. Then Molly’s story goes back to the 1980’s. We meet her as she has successfully graduated from a private high school and has obtained a full scholarship to a small, private college. She meets her new roommate, Sarah. Sarah always had the best of everything. “Sarah had some idea from watching movies that as freshman year roommate, ours was destined to be a special, almost mystical, friendship.” Their bond definitely affects their futures. What happens to Molly and Sarah?
Molly’s tale is dramatic, well-written, and mesmerizing. Molly is a strong and engaging character. Despite always feeling like she grew up on the “wrong side of the tracks” she achieves success as a lawyer. The author looks at the problems of addictions, whether to alcohol, poor relationships, or being caught in the past. Sadness, poignancy, heartbreak, humor and understanding abound but most of all, this is a great story.
“Imagine telling a nineteen year that anything was her last chance- what with the whole wide world open to her.”
This is a 5-star story, but I lowered the rating because the ending troubled me. I understand that it may have been the best ending under the circumstances, but it is rather traumatic.
Many thanks to the author for a digital review copy. This is my honest review.
You want emotion, characters that you can’t forget, a story that compels you to keep reading? I highly recommend you read author Bernadette Walsh. Forever Friends is the second book that I have read by this author, who is a stunning storyteller.
Forever Friends (written several years before her latest book Johnny Be Good, which is doing great on Amazon) shares similar themes of betrayal and redemption, suffering and love. Strong characters with powerful feelings and drives confront their outer worlds and their own inner problems. “Beneath my silky exterior lay a black hollow void.”
Molly O’Connor tells us her story in the first person. She is the daughter of divorced Irish immigrants. She lives with her mother and they are close. Her Irish heritage gave her beauty, brains and drive, as well as powerful emotions and deep feelings. Her father’s absence has heart her deeply.
The book begins with Molly attending a funeral, in the present day. Then Molly’s story goes back to the 1980’s. We meet her as she has successfully graduated from a private high school and has obtained a full scholarship to a small, private college. She meets her new roommate, Sarah. Sarah always had the best of everything. “Sarah had some idea from watching movies that as freshman year roommate, ours was destined to be a special, almost mystical, friendship.” Their bond definitely affects their futures. What happens to Molly and Sarah?
Molly’s tale is dramatic, well-written, and mesmerizing. Molly is a strong and engaging character. Despite always feeling like she grew up on the “wrong side of the tracks” she achieves success as a lawyer. The author looks at the problems of addictions, whether to alcohol, poor relationships, or being caught in the past. Sadness, poignancy, heartbreak, humor and understanding abound but most of all, this is a great story.
“Imagine telling a nineteen year that anything was her last chance- what with the whole wide world open to her.”
This is a 5-star story, but I lowered the rating because the ending troubled me. I understand that it may have been the best ending under the circumstances, but it is rather traumatic.
Many thanks to the author for a digital review copy. This is my honest review.
June 20, 2019
I read this book in one night. The characters gripped me from page one and never let me go. Molly and Sarah are two very different women who meet when they become roommates in college their freshman year. While Sarah pronounces them "friends forever" at that first meeting, theirs is a relationship fraught with envy, betrayal, and vices. The ending came as a surprise to me, but upon reflection, worked perfectly.
July 30, 2017
Friendship, revisited
This is a story that will grip you. Like all friendships, there are ups and downs in the relationship. Though Molly has never had a friend, she protects, defends, and supports Sarah. Sarah declares them best friends forever at their first meeting, but only supports Molly when she has crushed her. Ms Walsh has captured the pain and loneliness of two very different women, from teenage to adulthood. Her understanding of the ravages of alcoholism as well as the long reaching effects of divorce on children add so much depth as they forge their lives. But their real relationship is elusive. Is it jealousy or fear that distances them or does it keep them linked. This is writing at its finest, from its keen characterization, through elegant settings, into mature love.
This is a story that will grip you. Like all friendships, there are ups and downs in the relationship. Though Molly has never had a friend, she protects, defends, and supports Sarah. Sarah declares them best friends forever at their first meeting, but only supports Molly when she has crushed her. Ms Walsh has captured the pain and loneliness of two very different women, from teenage to adulthood. Her understanding of the ravages of alcoholism as well as the long reaching effects of divorce on children add so much depth as they forge their lives. But their real relationship is elusive. Is it jealousy or fear that distances them or does it keep them linked. This is writing at its finest, from its keen characterization, through elegant settings, into mature love.
October 23, 2018
I throughly enjoyed this book. It was a story of two “roomies” at college.
Both very different from each other but, they become life long friends. It also, included husbands, boyfriends & friends & parents. They weren’t always happy with each other but, they did have a lasting friendship. It
reminds you of the things we’ve done and where they lead you to! What we have made of ourselves in comparison to friends. I recommend you read this. I am sure you will enjoy !
Both very different from each other but, they become life long friends. It also, included husbands, boyfriends & friends & parents. They weren’t always happy with each other but, they did have a lasting friendship. It
reminds you of the things we’ve done and where they lead you to! What we have made of ourselves in comparison to friends. I recommend you read this. I am sure you will enjoy !
January 26, 2016
Lots of typos throughout that should have been caught by spellcheck or a second set of eyes. Short and quick read.
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