Beautiful Graves

Tropes of this book are my favorite. 🥀🪦love triangle 🥀🪦second chances 🥀🪦soulmates 🥀🪦angst 🥀🪦heartbreak 🥀🪦cheating 🥀🪦healing 🥀🪦loss 🥀betrayal

Beautifully written! So emotional, raw, and complex. I had a very hard time putting this book down. This book will make you want to cry one second and the next throw your book/kindle across the room. I just wanna smack some sense into Everlynn because she’s so scared of being with Joe in fear something bad will happen to him.

🥀Love Triangle 🥀Soulmates 🥀Second Chance . “If you were mediocre, you wouldn’t be running circles in my head.” . Review: First off, let me just say that LJ Shen is one of my favorite authors! I absolutely love her books. This book was completely different from LJ Shen's usually stories and I know she stepped out of her comfort zone and it definitely paid off.

Oh my gosh! I absolutely devoured this book! If I could have read it in one day, I would have. I was also glad I got to savor it for a little longer though. Would you choose the Love of Your Life or your Soulmate? I'm usually afraid of Love Triangles because I am affraid I will fall in love with the hero that the heroine doesn't choose. But when your favorite author writes a Love Triangle...you trust her and dive in! I'm so glad I did because I LOVED it and it is sooo much more than just a Love Triangle! Also, LJ Shen is a literary genious! The way she created the characters names, the meaning and connection of the title and how it all wove together perfectly. It is a work of art!

I am going to be very vague because I don't want to give anything away. This book is a beautiful and emotional roller coaster. I definitely recommend having tissues near by. The angst and heartbreak had me crying like a baby at times, but I loved it. I love when a book can truly make you feel what the hero or heroine is going through. That is the gift a skilled author. My heart broke for Everlynne at times and at others I wanted to smack her upside the head.😂 The banter, chemistry and passion was perfection. I felt every emotion. I swooned for both of our heroes at different points. The emotional turmoil Everlynne went through trying to choose between two very different men was so powerful. The plot twists kept me on my toes. The journey is rough, but sooooo worth it! Smoker Dude versus Mr. Perfect...who will Everlynne choose? Don't miss this one!!! I highly recommend it! This is definitely a top 2022 read for me!😍

This book was ALMOST too angsty at first, with the teenage love and a little drama. I couldn’t put it down though. I wanted to know what happened to Joe! And I’m super glad I didn’t. It ended up being a super drama filled book.

What’s a girl to do when everyone she gets close to seems to die? This isn’t a love triangle. This is a series of choices that have led us to this place. Choices that haven’t always been the best, but have landed her in a good place. With good friends. Good boyfriend and life is looking good. When your cat runs away from home and ends up in the balcony of a handsome man… what’s a girl to do? Run away. Run far far away.

This book kept me on my heels. I was constantly questioning what would actually happen. What happened to Joe? Where is he going to come in? I think that this book was built for the anticipation. Knowing it was coming but not when where or how. Enjoy

Beautiful Graves By: L.J. Shen 4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 0/5

This book had me on a chokehold! Ripped my heart right of my chest. I was screaming, I was in tears!! I have never read a more emotional book from L.J Shen like this before. And I loved it I really did. This story was Raw, emotional, beautiful and painful. BUT BUT BUT all this feelings were just from the first half part of the story and after that it all went downish, I just was expecting to have more of a powerful love triangle story. It didn't really consume me to the point that it made sense to be a love triangle. I wanted to have more of a fight between the brothers, like Dom finding out that Ever was Joe's everything and he getting pissed and Ever finding out that he was a lying cheat and then he gets into the car accident.. I wanted drama like I thought I was going to get. And I didn't, now I'm just feeling confused on how I feel about the other half of the book.

L'J. Shen has been my top favorite author and this was a good book but not heart shattering epic love. Yes it did had me in tears, had me screaming. But that was just the first part. I felt so painfully hurt for Ever. The things that happened to her was just unfair. All those emotions had me crawl into a ball and cry for her. I wish I had Joe's POV because it felt like he was just getting hurt left and right and his life was just unfair.

The ending was so rushed. I wanted them to have a better ending. I felt like she should have had more time with Joe and not leave him for the millionth time and with just leaving a note! Like come on girl. This was like a reverse tittle. Usually the guy is the one who does the wrong and he has to grovel back to the girl. But this was all 100% Ever's fault. She just dragged him along and never made up her mind. Plus she was very undecided, didn't have her life together and ghosted her best friend. Like idk this girl need help from herself.

Overall, I did keep reading the book. because I love anything that Shen writes. It held my attention in that way where you want to know what happens because you gutted for punishments even though its not what you are expecting.

This book started like a roller coaster, or more like a cluster f***. Just bonkers everything that happens in the first half of the book, then the last half is exhausting and ending is forgettable. Written very well and the storytelling is there. It was hard for me to get over the FMC's self loathing and "it's all my fault, I don't deserve to be happy," attitude. She hurt everyone more pitying herself. Steamy parts were steamy, but could've been better. Ended on a good note, but I was expecting more, considering the roller coaster start, it should be more consistent throughout the whole book. Why not give everyone the happy ending we want, but also make it shocking somehow, like the rest? The "removal" of one character seems like a cop out so the other two can finally be together, like too easy. They are messy, let it be messy. One last thing, I wish the FMC wasn't so mousey or weak. She does come into her own later and yes she's been through tragedy, but she needed a little inner bad-assery. :)