It's official, I'm obsessed with this series. While this wasn't my favorite of the three, it is still a very solid ⭐⭐⭐⭐ read. I love this family so much and how they pull together for each other. I liked getting to see more of Aiden and Freya and while this storyline didn't resonate with me quite as much, it was a nice different take on romance with this family. I can't wait to see what's next!

I honestly don’t know how Chloe Liese does it, but I only made it about 20% into this novel before I started tearing up. I basically had to read near tissues this entire book.

Reading the chapters from Aiden’s point of view really hit something in me. To the point that whenever I saw his name written at the start of a chapter, I made sure to have my tissues ready. Now, did I ever think I would relate so hard to a 36 year old man in a book? No, but that speaks to how knowledgeable Chloe is about the subject matter that she was able to write about his anxiety and struggles in a way that he could be relatable.

Now all that’s left is to recommend this book series to everyone and for me to wait for the next installment! I cannot wait for Axel and Rooney’s story that Chloe’s been teasing us with since book 2!

This book comes out January 12, 2021. Thank you the author and NetGalley for the ARC.

I read the first two books in the Bergman Brothers' series in preparation to read this one about Freya Bergman, one of the two Bergman Sisters. I instantly fell in love with the Bergman family. While I loved the first two books in the series, Ever After Always was my favorite of the three. This one felt the most *real* to me. Ever After Always really resonated with me as it was like taking a glimpse into my own life - the societal pressures of succeeding, the worries of being financially independent, the sometimes crippling anxiety disorder, and the challenges of keeping the romance alive in a long-time marriage. Freya and her husband, Aiden, are close to me and my husband's age (late 30s), and my husband (like Aiden) is also one of five boys in his family.

I loved reading about the Bergmans' family dynamics, the hijinks they get into, and their unconditional love and unwavering support of one another. It's truly admirable and remarkable how close knit they are given that they are such a big family. The book is a bit of a slow burn, and while I don't usually prefer that, I actually enjoyed that aspect in this novel. Ever After Always primarily focuses on the intricacies of Freya and Aiden's marriage and was like taking a look at their marriage under a microscope. I loved seeing their marriage through their lens and seeing how much hard work they putting into making the marriage work. You can actually feel all the emotions that they go through. The book is a lesson on acceptance, patience, finding ways to support each other the best way possible (and not letting ego get in the way), and how communication is the key to a successful marriage. This is the second-chance marriage story that every married couple needs to read!

There is a bit of a Bromance Book Club vibe to this book, but it's not so much to the point where it's cringeworthy or that it seems like the author was trying to copy that series. I actually like the Bergman Brothers series more than the Bromance series! The Bergman Brothers series is more realistic to me and I like the family dynamics aspect of it.

I can't wait to read the upcoming fourth book in the series about Alex and Rooney.

4.5 stars out of 5 (rounded up to 5).

Many thanks to NetGalley, Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op and Chloe Liese for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review.

Chloe Liese has easily become my favorite indie author this year. I devoured and relish her first two books in the Bergman brothers series and this one was just as good as the first two. I loved that it focused on a long term relationship of twelve years and the intricacies, struggles, as well as the beauty in that. I, myself am in a long term relationship with my partner so I was completely able to relate to Freya and Aiden in several aspects. This was a complex story among two individuals with both personal and combined relationship issues and strains. I felt that Chloe wrote this book and these characters' story with such care and insight. It felt personal, raw, real, and beautifully complex. I rooted for Freya and Aiden the entire time for the betterment of themselves and for the success of their marriage.

There were so many important topics discussed in this book such as: Childhood trauma and poverty, anxiety disorder, intimacy struggles, toxic masculinity (the Bergman brothers are precious and should be cherished and protected at all costs), and several other topics. Such insight was provided for each of those topics. I seriously had to cool it on the highlighting as there were excessive amounts because it was all that good.

I have only read a few marriage-in-crises/second chance books before, but this was by far my favorite so far and makes me want to read more. I will read absolutely anything Chloe writes and I cannot wait to read the next Bergman book and also get to spend more time with all of these wonderful characters!


In fewer words, Chloe Liese is an incredible #OwnVoices author and everyone should go read all three books in the Bergman Brothers series ASAP, you won't regret it!

I fully expected to enjoy Ever After Always because I loved the prior two books in the Bergman Brothers series, and marriage-in-trouble is one of my favorite tropes; however, I grossly underestimated just HOW great Freya and Aiden's story would be.

One of my favorite things about this series is how Liese writes characters (and relationships) that aren't perfect. Her characters are well developed with layers and faults and strengths, just like real people. I also love the marriage in crisis trope for how real it feels. We all love the insta-love, happily ever romance stories, but that's not necessarily the most realistic. This book looks at what happens when two people deeply love each other (that was never really in doubt here), but still face a crisis in their relationship. Aiden and Freya's journey was honest and real and heart breaking. It wrecked me in a way no book has in a while, but the end was well worth the journey.

Oh my word ! What a book! Hold the traffic ,shut the front door and ring up Chloe Liese and tell her that she signed ,sealed and delivered a remarkable ,never gonna stop talking about Romance . Ever after always tells the story of Aiden and Freya a couple struggling to find their way to each other. The book touches on family,fertility ,relationships and sibling love. If you are looking for a read that will keep you hooked then get this. The plot is so awesome ,the characters are lovable and the covers is so gorgeous. Huge thanks to the publisher for my ARC

Another good one by Chloe Liese. Enjoyed the first two in the series a bit more but this was another solid one. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the digital ARC.

An absolutely phenomenal read. Chloe Liese is the master of combining laughter with raw emotional honesty and pain.
Ever After Always looks at a marriage in trouble, and, from page one, you can't help but have your heartbreak as the conflict between Freya and Aiden unravels. I cried after chapter one (and then like five more times through the book, both happy and sad). More often than not, we see relationships blossom and grow and struggle to survive from their infancy, but it takes a true master writer to give us a relationship a decade into its start, and have us care about them making it. This book is a perfect reminder that relationships are WORK. It takes so much to share a life with another person, and Chloe analyzes the beauty, struggle, and reward in giving another person your everything.

I love love love the Bergman Brothers books! You don't necessarily have to read them in order but you should read them all.
Chloe Liese's characters all feel so inhabited and modern. Even when you don't agree with how they are behaving, their actions feel justified within the story and it never feels cheap.
This is a beautiful story about a solid, long-term marriage in trouble. How much should you settle to stay married to the person you love? This is set against the backdrop of the boisterous, loving Bergman family's big vacation so the contrast throws the marriage's problems into stark relief. Of course they work it out for the HEA, but they work hard at it. It's a beautiful story

SERIES: no.3 in Bergman Brothers series ( can be read as standalone)
RELEASE DATE: January 12th, 2021
GENRE: contemporary romance
TROPES: marriage in crisis
CLIFFHANGER: no
TRIGGER WARNINGS: anxiety
HOTTIE METER: 2


If you still haven't discovered a new unique voice in the contemporary romance that is Chloe Liese, well what are you waiting for?! In the new installment, we get a story of the eldest Bergman, Freya, and her marriage in trouble with her college sweetheart Aiden.
Filled with all-consuming troubles all long term relationships have, this book is equally refreshing and realistic. Freya and Aiden fall apart while trying to get pregnant. Each of them is dealing with some issues and the reader is together with them on their journey of reconciliation.
I loved anxiety representation and the way it was handled. Contemporary authors need to be intentional in their choices and Liese executes that splendidly.
On a side note, the plethora of side characters that are Bergman family is delightful.

Why not a perfect score?
Well, this one like the previous book needs more polish with pacing and length. But that can be just my issue. So, it is subjective and other readers might not notice it.

I would recommend this book to very contemporary romance readers, especially anyone looking for an already married couple. It is a realistic story of what happens after happily ever after.

* I received a copy of the book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this copy of the book!

Freya and Aiden have been married for almost ten years and their love is admired and envied by the rest of the Bergman clan. However, behind closed doors, Freya and Aiden’s marriage has been failing for several months. Between the stress of trying for a baby and Aiden being consumed by work to provide for his family, they are drifting apart more than ever. Feeling abandoned by her husband, Freya decides to kick him out. Their marriage is in crisis and they don't know if they will ever recover. Will marriage counseling, meddling brothers and a Hawaii gateway be able to save and strengthen their relationship?

Ever After Always is the third book in the Bergman Brothers series and follows the eldest Bergman sibling Freya and her husband Aiden. This is the third Chloe Liese book I’ve read and the third time I’ve fallen in love with her writing and characters. CAN THE BERGMAN FAMILY ADOPT ME PLEASE? This installment was such a beautiful and emotional ride, there were so many cute and funny moments between the characters and then sadder ones that made me go from smiles to tears in a few seconds. I haven’t read many marriage in crisis romance, but this one might be my favorite so far and I loved following Freya and Aiden’s journey to make their marriage work. From the very first page, you could tell their love was endless and they were made for each other. Their struggles as a couple and as individuals felt authentic, they were very well described and written and I enjoyed it a lot. If you haven’t started this series yet, pick it up because you’re missing out BIG TIME.

Freya is a fierce and kindhearted woman who never hesitate to help her loved ones when needed. She is not afraid to show her emotions and is yearning to try for a baby with her husband. Aiden is a hard-working professor and would do everything and anything to make his wife the happiest. He wants to take this next step with Freya and build a family, but it’s also financially stressing him out a lot. He grew up in poverty with his mother and has always had to worry about money, so he doesn’t want that for Freya and their future children. Consumed by work and his secret project to support his family, Aiden’s anxiety is getting higher and Freya feels more and more abandoned. Their marriage has been threatened for a few months and they both will realize it when Freya kicks Aiden out.

You don’t need flashback scenes to understand how much Freya and Aiden care and love each other, but their marriage is at an impasse, they aren’t able to communicate anymore and intimacy is none existent. Aiden is hiding how severe his anxiety has become as he is determined to carry out his project to support his family. He doesn’t want to worry Freya because he doesn’t want to bury her with his problems. And he isn’t talking about it to the rest of the Bergman either because they didn’t grow up like him, he feels like they won’t be able to understand him. On the other hand, Freya feels abandoned and is becoming more closed off around Aiden. What I appreciated a lot in this book is that you can’t take a side in this conflict because neither of them is wrong. You feel and understand both of their opinions because their situation and issues are authentic. I also loved the fact that they were willing to make things work and that they weren’t stubborn over marriage counseling. As the story unfolded and with the help of marriage therapy and the Bergman meddling, they were unconsciously making efforts to communicate more about their struggles and feelings. I loved how they never hated each other and never stopped caring and loving each other during this difficult time. They also had many cute, angsty and steamy moments that I enjoyed a lot and it was wonderful to see them reconnect at the end.

What I also liked

- AXEL AND ROONEY OMG: their little moment in <i>Always Only You</i> caught my attention and I haven’t stopped thinking about them since I’ve read it. Their crumbs in this book are even better and got me SO EXCITED for their story, they are already serving SO BAD and I can’t wait to know more. And that scene where Axel is talking about Rooney <3 AHHHHH I just know they are going to own me!!!

- The Bergman family: As always, their moments together are perfect and I love them so much. Seeing them all coming together to help Freya and Aiden was amazing and I loved how all the brothers made Aiden grovel to help him rekindle his marriage with Freya. In each book you also learn a little bit more about them, their personality, their bond and it’s literally impossible not to fall in love with each one of them. Thanks to Chloe Liese for writing about this amazing family <3

Overall, Ever After Always is another fantastic book by Chloe Liese, I love her characters and her writing so much and with the Bergman Brothers series she has become one of my favorite authors. Freya and Aiden’s story was raw, emotional, very realistic and FULL OF ANGST. I’m SO EXCITED to see what’s next for the Bergmans, especially Ziggy I liked her friendship with Frankie in the previous book and I loved that she is mentioned more in this book too! The next book is Rooney and Axel’s and I’m SO READY for it <3

𝐀𝐑𝐂 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰: ⁣
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𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳: 𝐂𝐡𝐥𝐨𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐞 ⁣
𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘛𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦: 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬⁣
𝘔𝘺 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝟒.𝟓 ⭐️ ⁣
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𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘪𝘱 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘢𝘥, 𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦. ⁣
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𝗪𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐝: ⁣
~I love how relatable and perfectly imperfect Chloe makes her characters. This book is incredibly real, raw, emotional, and incredibly relatable to anyone in a long term relationship, whether it be 1 year or 10+ years. ⁣
~The representation of anxiety was so accurate and I really connected to that aspect on a personal level. Lots of tears were shed over these parts because I vividly felt Aiden’s pain and anxiety. ⁣
~I always love how much the rest of the Bergman family appears in these books! It’s just so heartwarming. I absolutely love how they welcome the siblings’ significant others without a second thought. ⁣
~No matter how much these books make me cry, you can always guarantee I will be legitimately laughing out loud at times too. ⁣
~I’m not normally a fan of the marriage-in-crisis trope but this was done so well that you didn’t want to pick a side which I really appreciated.⁣
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𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬: ⁣
I absolutely loved this book and I will recommend it to anyone and everyone! Chloe Liese is one of my auto buy/auto read authors and I will always support her mission to be an inclusive romance author by writing about underrepresented characters. ⁣
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𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰! 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐧. ⁣
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In this third installment of the Bergman Brothers series, the focus is on their sister, Freya, and her husband of almost 10 years, Aiden. They’ve had a bad patch of at least six months, and so Freya throws her husband out. Second-chance romances are hard, because the author has to sell the couple, the schism, and the reconciliation. This book does a good job of digging into the nitty gritty of rebuilding a marriage. It’s not about a single grand gesture and fade to black (although grand groveling gestures are important). It’s about each person being able to see where the other person is coming from and about getting vulnerable.

The Bergman brothers are again entertaining, and it’s nice to get glimpses of how the couples from the previous books are doing.

I was provided with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Ever After Always is the third book in Chloe Liese’s Bergman Brothers series. You don’t need to have read the first two books, but they are quite good, so you should read them. I received this as an advance reader copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Aiden and Freya have been married for almost 10 years and are still very much in love. Their marriage is still falling apart. When the book opens, Freya has asked Aiden to leave their home to give her some space. After a few days, he comes back home because they won’t let him sleep in his office. He knows that he is at fault, he even knows why, but he doesn’t know how to stop or how to talk about it. Freya feels like a failure because her parents marriage was perfect and she thought she had her life handled.

Aiden has generalized anxiety disorder and has lived with it successfully for years with therapy and medications. Unfortunately, when they decided it was time to start a family, his anxiety ramped up. I also have generalized anxiety disorder, so Aiden made perfect sense to me. Out of control anxiety can be like holding a gun and repeatedly shooting yourself in the foot. You didn’t mean to and you know you shouldn’t do it again, but the more you try not to do it again the more you shoot yourself in the foot. Aiden knows that he is pushing Freya away, but he keeps doing it and then feeling awful about it and trying to fix it in a way that makes everything worse. Aiden catastrophizes, and appropriately, he doesn’t feel able to change his behavior until his situation is compared to a Greek tragedy. As a catastrophizer, this spoke to me.

“Tom, those are Aristotle’s thoughts on tragedy.”

“Exactly. At some point, every love is a tragedy. It just doesn’t have to stay that way. We choose our endings. That’s Aristotle’s point. Tragedy is built—it has a structure. And if that’s not the ending you want, then you get out of that trajectory. You change the narrative.”

Frey has her own issues to work through and they are addressed beautifully imperfectly. I loved that there were no bad guys, just two people doing their best and finding out that doing their best wasn’t going to work. They go to therapy. They start letting friends and family in to help. Accepting help from others immediately makes things start to get better. It was a lovely and healing read. I loved that in the end no one is “fixed” and nothing is perfect, but they have gathered the tools to do the work.

Growth and forgiveness are big themes in this story. More than one person has to grow, and more than one person has to be forgiven. There is one subplot that I have mixed feelings about, but it wasn’t a deal breaker by any means. I enjoyed Chloe Liese’s voice. I think she’s writing interesting characters and exploring the complexities of love – romantic and familial – in interesting ways.

Chloe Liese’s latest book Ever After Always is a wonderful combination of heartbreak and hilarity that will have readers devouring this book in one sitting. The Bergman Brothers Series follows the life of the seven children in the Bergman family as they navigate life, loss, and love. Ever After Always is a second chance romance for Aiden and Freya, who have been married for (almost) a decade. Readers were introduced to Aiden in Only When It’s Us where he (slightly) abused his power as an economics professor to play matchmaker for Willa and Ryder. While Aiden is great at spotting sparks flying between others, he failed to notice the embers slowly cooling between him and his wife. Is their love for each other and support from their family enough? Or will all of the small fractures and lies topple their marriage for good?
As always, Liese tackles difficult topics with sensitivity and grace making for a beautiful love story. The reader gets unique insight into a failing marriage and gets to watch them fall in love again. This book will for sure take you on a rollercoaster of emotions; one minute I was laughing at the Bergman brothers crazy antics and the next I was tearing up as I learned more about Freya and Aiden’s pasts and insecurities. What to expect: pranks gone awry, strong female protagonists, and beautiful music. If you have not read any of Liese’s novels yet, I would recommend starting with Only When It’s Us (another 5 star read for me!), but you can read Ever After Always as a standalone if you want. This book is perfect for fans of the Bromance Book Club and You Deserve Each Other.

I was really intrigued by this one! The Bromance Book Club is a real favourite of mine so the comparison to that was one aspect that drew me in. Inclusivity was the second.
As someone who’s lived with generalised anxiety disorder for five years (probably more as it’s been five years since it was diagnosed) I’m always all ears to see how people portray it in literature. The same goes for autism, I have a younger brother who has ASD and my BA Hons dissertation was written on the depiction of ASD in contemporary fiction.
Now, I’m not a professional on GAD or ASD, everyone experiences GAD differently and since I’m not autistic myself, I can only see it from an outsiders perspective who’s done a lot of reading on ASD and who deals with their own GAD on a daily basis, but I think Chloe Liese handled both topics amazingly. This is the first book of Liese’s I’ve read and I’ll be reading more, especially after learning that she is autistic herself. A common stereotype surrounding ASD is that people who have ASD lack imagination, I myself know that’s not true, but I’m ecstatic to see an own voices autistic author writing fiction, using their imagination, figuratively kicking the butts of every person who’s ever said those with Autism or Aspergers don’t have an imagination.
While I hope to see a book about Ziggy in future, I love that her autism wasn’t a main focus in the book. No one tiptoed around her, she was forthright in explaining sensory issues and when she did, no one reacted, Freya even mentally thought about how proud she was that her sister owned her sensory issues. More than anything I just loved that Ziggy wasn’t an autistic character, she was a character with many attributes and autism just so happened to be one of them.
Again, I can’t speak for everyone with GAD, but I resonated with so many of Aiden’s feelings and thoughts. When I’m struggling with my anxiety I tend to keep it all in until it results in either a huge panic attack or numerous people close to me becoming frustrated and upset at my lack of communication. Not necessarily because they don’t understand my anxiety, but because I don’t communicate that it’s my anxiety making me distant.
I love that this wasn’t just a romance book. I mean, it’s a GREAT romance book. It tugged my heartstrings, made me laugh, made me cry, there were se exceptionally steamy moments, but it’s so so so much more than a romance book.
I read this as a stand-alone, but I’ll be going back and reading the first two Bergman brothers books for sure!

Chloe Liese just keeps getting better! This was by far my favorite book in the Bergman Brothers series, and quite possibly my favorite book of 2020.

This book was a joy to dive in to because I was already familiar with the characters and supporting characters so it felt like coming home. I came in to this book fully invested in the outcome, and spent every single page on the edge of my seat feeling SO deeply what Freya and Aiden were going through. I appreciated the authors portrayal of anxiety and it’s sometimes crippling effects.

I think a big factor in why this book struck me so wonderfully is because I have been married to my husband for 9 years, just like Freya, and my husband is my best friend, also like Freya. It’s painful and resonate to imagine how easily a marriage can get off track and that painful distance that can grow and fester, building resentments and misunderstandings. Being able to see both Freya and Aiden’s perspectives drove home the fact that even committed, loving, IN LOVE people can find themselves on the brink of divorce with a lack of communication. This was such a raw and honest peek in to their lives and I loved it SO MUCH. And getting to spend so much time around the entire Bergman clan and their delightful chaos was icing on the cake. Thank you, thank you, Chloe and NEVER stop writing. ❤️

Thank you for the opportunity to review this novel!

I've read the two first books in this series and really enjoyed them. I enjoyed this too but one thing bothered me and that was the idea that the guys should read romance books. Don't get me wrong, I lobe the idea BUT it's already taken by The Bromance Book Club. It feels like a rip-off and not in a good way.

I adore Chloe (the author) and all the rest of the story is great. I will continue to read the series of course since it's fun and romantic. 😍

Ever After Always is the third book in this series of brothers that won me over on the first page of the first book. Here, we will accompany Freya and Aiden trying to recover their marriage, which is falling apart and they don't even know the reason for how they got in this situation.

Freya and Aiden have already participated in previous books. So when I learned that in this book they were going through a crisis, I didn't know what to expect or feel. Undoubtedly, the two love each other deeply and care for each other, but the lack of communication and omission of feelings were some of the causes of this crisis. And that's where Chloe is going to work during the book: how they're going to reconnect and trust each other again.

At first it can be quite stressful to accompany the couple in this situation, where both say they want to make the relationship count, that they want to fix something, but they don't know where to start. Freya is a woman open to her feelings, her heart and feelings are transparent. Aiden, who suffers from anxiety, has a certain difficulty in expressing his thoughts, mainly because he does not want to be a burden to Freya.

Chloe knew how to work on the anxiety issue in Aiden, especially on how it affects not only the psychological and physical. In addition to being an emotional tornado, Aiden's anxiety also affects his sex life, generating a certain impotence. I thought it was very nice for the author to work on this detail because many psychological diseases, such as anxiety and depression, also affect this aspect of the diagnosed person. It is also interesting to see how it affected Freya, not knowing anything that her husband was going through, started to draw his own conclusions.

Freya also had a good development, as the part of the relationship that got tired of trying. Not knowing about Aiden's problems, she believes that her husband no longer feels the same way about her and that makes her give up trying to continue. Other than the fact that he thought Aiden no longer wanted her. Freya is fat and her husband's silence and indifference affect her self-esteem a little.

With a slightly heavier emotional charge than the previous ones, it was very nice to see Aiden and Freya reconnect. As I always say, love is not enough to maintain a relationship and here is the proof; Aiden and Freya still love each other deeply, but something between them broke and they need to fight to rebuild. With great gestures and honest conversations, the two work to solve the problems in the marriage.

One point to highlight is the entire Bergman clan. Knowing the situation between the sister and her brother-in-law, the brothers get together almost in a kind of The Bromance Book Club to help both of them, which generates several funny and fun scenes. I like that (so far, at least) all men have not shown even an ounce of toxicity, including one of them an overly fond fan of Lisa Kleypas.

Ever After Always is a beautiful romance of second chances and reconciliation. And I can't wait for the next book, which will finally tell the story of a long-awaited couple: Axel and Rooney.

This is the third book in a set of companion novels. I haven't read the other two books prior to this, but I found it fine to read. I do feel like there were some personal relationships amongst family members that I was missing out on, but not too much, I will catch up with these later though as I enjoyed Chloe Liese's writing and character development!

Freya and Aiden's story is not a typical one you see in romance novels. They are a marriage in trouble and there is a lot of struggle and miscommunication. Add to that some meddling siblings, Freya's parents perfect marriage and Aiden's anxiety a lot is going on. Chloe Liese did a great job exploring anxiety and did it carefully and compassionately. I also like that Aiden seemed very aware of his anxiety and was able to talk about it, and even more Freya was supportive of Aiden in his anxiety. I really also liked how Liese normalized for individual counselling for Aiden's anxiety as well as marriage counselling for the couple.

I like how the author took time to write about people that are not typical in the romance genre, Aiden with anxiety and Freya being plus sized. Oftentimes I find that romances fit a typical niche and this one stepped a little out of the box and I found it enjoyable. The romance in the book was pretty steamy too, but not cover to cover steam, just the right amount for me.

I loved the inclusion of a playlist to listen to while reading the book and would find myself singing the songs when I was starting out a chapter as well. It really helped set the tone too! writes

I received a copy of this from NetGalley and the publisher for an open and honest review. All opinions are 100% mine.