Almost Strangers by Claudia Burgoa

Almost Strangers by Claudia Burgoa 

Released: October 28th 2022

Series: Somehow Everlasting Duet Series Book #1

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars

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Blurb:

I found it (him) at the bookstore.
Love. 
He was six foot four, lanky, blue-eyed. 
Jacob Decker was goofy, handsome, and cheesy. 
There’s no better way to describe him. 
But what can I expect of an eighteen-year-old boy who’s lived under a rock all his life?

I’ll let you into a little secret.
I had no idea what to expect.
We were each other’s first everything. 
But the fantasy lasted only a semester. 

Soon I had to move away. 
A few years later, he was a rockstar, and I was…
Grasping for a lifeline. 
The problem with first loves is that they never leave you.
But they never come back, do they?

Almost Strangers is the first novel in the Somehow Everlasting duet, a Decker Family Novel. This book ends on a cliffhanger that'll change everything...

My review:

Almost Strangers is the first book in the Somehow Everlasting Duet for the Decker family and it does end with a cliffhanger.  I don’t usually read books that end with a cliffhanger but luckily, the second book was published the same day so, no waiting months and wondering what will happen.  Part of the duet was released in the book Uncharted but the author has rewritten it and added to it, therefore it has more depth.  This duet is Jacob Decker and Pria Walker’s emotional journey to happiness, and you will definitely need a box of tissues for this heartbreaking story.

“If only you could understand that you mean more to me than words can speak, more than the notes my guitar can express, and more than what the sun is to Earth… one look was plenty to know that I liked you, a day is all it took to learn that I wanted to know more.  Now, I am sure about us.  I’m falling for you.”

Jacob and Pria met in college and fell in love, but they knew their time together was limited.  Pria has lived a sheltered life and with her sister’s health being so bad Pria’s life was complicated.  Their family would be moving once her sister got accepted into a new medical trial. 

“Maybe we’ll be carrying a piece of each other in our hearts that will keep us together even when we’re far away from each other.”

Pria and Jacob’s story was heartbreaking and once I got to the end, I immediately had to pick up the second book, Strangers in Love, and start it.  I absolutely adored this book and highly recommend it.

 I received an ARC and am voluntarily leaving a review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.