I haven’t read a book from Paige Toon for a while, but reading this book really got me back into her style of writing.
The story of Ash & Ellie spans a number of years and their connection burns so bright the reader can almost feel it scorch the pages.
I really enjoyed this book; a bit of escapism into a world where no matter what barriers are encountered along the road, love will find a way, it just sometimes needs a little help.

I loved Seven Summers by Paige so when I got this ARC for her new book I was super excited!
This book was SO addictive that I couldn’t put it down.

Ellie is travelling through Europe when she meets Ash in Lisbon. They spend 3 days together and they fall for each other.
Ellie has plans to meet her parents and has to leave Ash.
Ash has no phone or anyway of being contacted so they agree to meet in Madrid a few days later however Ash doesn’t show up. Ellie has no way of contacting him, doesn’t know his surname or where he lives so returns home heartbroken.
Ellie spends the next 6 years wondering why he never showed up and where he was until she starts a dream job and all is revealed!

I give this book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫/5 (4.5)

Thank you to Netgalley & Penguin Random House for his ARC.

Oh Paige Toon what have you done to me, another fantastic gripping story.

Elle met the one Ash travelling through Portugal, 3 days together and a plan to meet up again in a weeks time after Elle meets up with her parents.

What a beautiful beautiful read this is, I ploughed though these pages but I didn't want it to end!

An engaging story about love, starting over, and making the most of life and to follow your dreams.

Such a beautiful read, Bravo Paige Toon you never disappoint ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Another classic by Paige Toon! I wanted something to loose myself in and this certainly did that in the usual addictive fashion of a Paige Toon novel. If you want travelling, to learn something and romance with a happy ending, then this is the book for you.

Was lucky enough to get an early arc of this book from net gallery and Paige Toon!! Paige took is one of my favourite authors and I always love her book!! This book features the story between Ash and Ellie who met whilst travelling!! They quickly fall in live but life events get in the way!! I liked the characters and their story!! Both main characters have the constraints of parental influence and expectations which hinders the relationship! Elle doesn't think she's good enough for ash and ash doesn't want his privileged life!!!
Would highly recommend this book!!

I was completely enchanted by this book, and from the clear connection Ellie and Ash have from their very first meeting.

And I absolutely adored the days the spent in Lisbon, and how Ash was inspiring Ellie to try to take control of her life and to stop being a people pleaser. They were even both travelling for similar reasons, which in Ellie's case I figured out the truth very early on.

But why on earth would Paige Toon give her characters a nice easy time of it, for after a missed meeting in Madrid, and seeing in snippet form what Ellie does after she heads home heartbroken, fate steps in.

And wow I just loved it any time Ash and Ellie were together, there is just something about this couple that I totally adored.

This was such an easy book to read, I was lucky to even notice my tube had stopped at the end of the line on my way home as I was so absorbed. There are so many ups and downs, and I loved all of the various settings of the book.

Paige Toon has just such a way with words that absorbs me into the pages and won't let me go from start to finish. And this is possibly one of my favourite books of hers (but I might say that every time as she is that good!).

What a wonderful love story. Truly adored every second of this.

Thank you to Penguin and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

I loved this!

This was the first Paige Toon book that I've read and it definitely won't be my last. I loved how she described the characters and the settings sounded beautiful. The relationship between the main characters felt so real and I was desperate for them to get together.

Overall, a beautiful, cosy read!

Firstly, thank you so much for the pleasure to read What If I Never Got Over You.
Ellie and ash both meet backpacking around Europe after uni. It only took 3 days to fall in love.
The promised to meet up before they finished. However ash was nowhere to be found.
Ellie spent the next six years thinking about ash and why he did not show.
That is till Ellie started a new job and who does she see but ash, however he is not who she thought he was.

I absolutely adored the story, simply beautifully written, I felt all the emotion whilst reading.

This is another amazing story by Paige Toon and one that will have you sat up reading late into the night. It tells the story of Ellie and Ash who meet whilst travelling and they fall in love in Lisbon over three days. Three days that changes their lives and their paths forever. They plan to meet again in Madrid after Ellie makes a life changing decision but when she gets there Ash is not.
Jump forward six years and Ellie has never forgotten Ash, he will always be the one who got away. They unexpectedly meet again in a Welsh manor house and sparks are soon flying again. The book is marketed as a modern day Bridgerton meets One Day and I think it lives up to that label. I did get frustrated with the main FMC as she really did faff around the main relationship for far too long before just trusting her heart and getting on board. I did feel that the rich boy class angst hang up was over played at times but on the whole this is another strong offering from Paige that will be a commercial success.

I really enjoy Paige Toon’s novels and this one didn’t disappoint. I always feel that I could make Paige’s characters in my everyday surroundings. They don’t feel out of reach or predictable, I really liked Ellie, she didn’t want to let her parents down but really wanted to pursue her dreams of becoming a gardener. She doesn’t feel like this is possible until she meets a remarkable stranger whilst travelling around Europe. Once you’ve read this, you feel like you have just been released from a warm embrace.

Here we have yet another complete and utter masterpiece from Paige Toon. I swear, every book she writes just grabs onto my heart and won’t let go 🥹

I totally devoured this in the space of a few hours, as I do with all of Paige’s books. I don’t know what she puts in these stories but they just get me every single time, and I can’t put them down for even a second!

In the story, we follow Ash and Ellie who meet at the age of 21 whilst interrailing, finding themselves in a 3-day whirlwind romance. After forming an incredibly strong connection, they vow to meet up again in Madrid, but Ellie is late and Ash doesn’t show, and the two lose touch. When fate steps in and they come face to face again 6 years later, it’s safe to say there are a whole bunch of feelings still floating around, but there’s a reason Ash didn’t show in Madrid. It soon becomes clear why the two of them aren’t destined to be together, but the heart wants what it wants, and you can’t help who you fall in love with.

If you like longing, yearning, all the good stuff… this book will give it to you and then some. I loved it SO much.

I had the best time reading this book, it was incredibly emotive and at times I was close to tears as we experienced Ellie and Ash’s relationship.

Paige perfectly managed to invoke empathy for Ellie and Ash and their life decisions as well as previous traumas they have experienced.
A number of characters in the book are very realise and human in their behaviours.

The story was moving and at times completely heartbreaking but in the best way.

My only critique would be the constant lack of concern over protection/contraception during sex scenes.

Please note my actual rating is 4.5 stars.

What If I Never Get Over You - Paige Toon

5⭐️
I well and truly adored this book with every fibre of me being. Insta-love isn’t really my bag usually, but Paige Toon does such a wonderful job of intermingling that trope with grief and sadness and emotion, as well as the all encompassing feeling that comes when someone just *GETS* you, y’know?
Magic is the only descriptor I have for this book✨
Ellie and Ash are such developed characters with their pasts playing such a huge part of who they are and why they act the way they do. There’s an element of miscommunication between them, but done in a way where you understand their feelings rather than wanting to clang their heads together and make them talk! 📚
I genuinely have no notes - I inhaled this entire book in an afternoon (when I absolutely should have been working👀), and I cannot wait for this to hit shelves so you can all experience this rollercoaster of emotions🎢
A huge thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House for this ARC 📖

Not my favourite of Paige Toon's books despite a promising start. I loved the meet cute between Ellie and Ash in Lisbon, and the way they connected over their earlier losses. The settings were all gorgeous - I love the showcasing of Welsh locations, and the fact that they are real places that can be visited.

On the whole, it was a cute romance, easy reading. But it felt a little more surface value than Toon normally does. I didn't feel any real connection to the characters and their struggles. Ellie's best friend Stella, was a wonderful motivation for her trip through Europe, but it felt a bit like that story thread was abandoned by the wayside halfway through. There's very little, if any, mention of her in the later part of the book.
There were plenty of avenues to explore - heritage and duty, family expectation and control, abuse and PTSD, grief and loss - but every hint of something deeper was glossed over in favour of an instalove connection that overrode everything else.

So on the whole, readable, but nothing outstanding, and a little disappointing overall.

Thanks to NetGalley, Toon and Randomhouse/Penguin for the chance to read ahead of release - a shame it wasn't quite for me in this case.

- @paigetoonauthor is one of my go to, favourite authors. Never failing to squeeze every bit of emotion out of my heart - that is of she’s not smashing it to pieces through her amazing storytelling.

Never afraid of tackling the ups and downs, the lighter or darker parts of a story; Paige brings characters to life that we invest in, that we like or find relatable in some way.

Ellie and Ash have instant chemistry and from the short time they spend together in Lisbon it’s clear they have a deep connection. Years later they realise they perhaps didn’t know each other all that well, there are some things in their lives that neither can escape. Time for them starts running out, will they take a chance or will circumstance ruin everything.

Loved Ash from the start and he seemed like the perfect bloke; Ellie has clearly gone through a lot and it takes time to understand her views on things.

Gorgeous, heartwarming and heartbreaking. An emotional journey. Wonderful as always, I will forever recommend Paige Toon books to everyone!

I have been obsessed with Paige Toon’s books since I read Seven Summers. I loved both the main characters- Ellie and Ash and their storyline. I flew through this book and I’m so excited for her next release.

If you are a fan of Paige Toon then you’ll know what you’re getting by now, the queen of romance and suspense! Her latest novel does not disappoint, Ellie and Ash meet while travelling, fall in love over 3 days spent together and then part ways. Six years later, they get a second chance but can it work? There is lots in the way of happiness and it’s an emotional rollercoaster at times.

I was lucky enough to receive an early copy of this and I kept it to read on holiday. If you love romantic, twisty, suspenseful drama then this is a book for you. A guaranteed good holiday read, out just in time on 10th April 📚❤️

What If I Never Get Over You?" was my first experience with Paige Toon's writing, and it definitely won't be my last!

I received an ARC of this book a while ago, and I'm so glad I finally got around to reading it. It's a beautiful love story about Ash and Ellie, who share a very intense three-day connection while traveling. They lose touch when life gets in the way. Fast forward six years, fate intervenes and decides to play matchmaker again, bringing them back together. Now, I'm not usually an into a whole lot of instalove, but it worked well in this case, and it was essential to setting up the story's timeline.

I adored Ash and Ellie as characters. They were both relatable, even though their backgrounds were quite privileged (although Ellie's tried to make out her parents weren’t but tried to get that life for themselves). I really felt all of their emotions, both the highs and the lows. I also LOVED the little touch of Ellie reading ACOTAR 🦇

The supporting characters added some great depth to the story, and I enjoyed that the story had the sense of found family for Ellie. However, I felt that the found family aspect took a bit of a backseat as we got further into the book. A few more scenes with those characters towards the end would have been a nice touch.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed "What If I Never Get Over You?" It's a heartwarming and engaging story, and I'm excited to search and read more of Paige Toon's books in the future. I'd recommend this book to readers who love a good romance with a touch of fate and second chances

Another amazing Paige Toon novel. I have read all of her novels and she never disappoints. It was an emotional rollercoaster of a story about second chance love. I loved the characters of Ellie and Ash. I would definitely highly recommend it.

I could not put this book down!!
ash is a new favourite book boyfriend of mine. he's so loveable.

I found it so beautiful how ash and Ellie met and just instantly connected. their chemistry is everything, and the beach scene in the beginning had my heart!! now I definitely experienced a roller coaster of emotions while reading this beach SO much happens.

their story is a complicated one, but it really is beautiful and I had to know what was going to happen next. I loved the setting and seeing some of Ellies work life balance. the ending just felt a little rushed for me. I wouldn't be upset if I got to read even more about these two because I loved them so much! but im still very happy with this read!