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When I Should've Stayed

Red Bridge, Book 2

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When I Should've Stayed

By: Max Monroe
Narrated by: Ryan West, Mindy Kennedy
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Josie: Before The Moment

There are ghosts at every corner. In the stolen kisses while I waitressed at the diner, in the town festivals in the square, in the many jokes about Betty Bagley and her pie at the Fall Farmer’s Market, and in countless nights spent watching Clay make drinks with that handsome smile of his plastered on his face while I sat on a stool at the bar.

It should all feel familiar and comforting, and yet, it makes it hard for the person I am now to breathe at all.

I wish I’d been stronger. I wish I’d been wiser. I wish I didn’t have to do this.

I wish.

Tonight will be a defining moment for the rest of my life.

I have to end it now …

… before it ends me.

Clay: After The Moment

When Josie and I said, ‘I do’, I thought it’d be us against the world forever. But I wasn’t expecting the world to be so against us.

I know I should’ve stayed that night, and I should have gone back a heck of a lot sooner.

Because I don’t know how to be here. I don’t know how to be anywhere.

Truth is, I don’t know how to be without Josie at all.

She might think we’re done, but I’m going to spend the rest of my life making sure we’re not.

©2025 Max Monroe (P)2025 Recorded Books Contemporary Romantic Comedy Funny
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Really wanted to like this one after enjoying the first book so much, but it just didn't land for me. The non-linear narrative completely ruined the pacing of the story, and the the opportunity to explore their relationship felt like it was mostly glossed over. Overall just felt like this story had very little real substance, and what it did have was spread far too thin and scattered.

Also left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth that they decided to cannibalise the last chapter; what should have been the feel-good conclusion was instead a shoe-horned in ad for the next book of the series.

Quite a let down

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