Book Blurb:
Some people are written into your life long before you meet them.
Annabelle Prescott has spent years carrying a grief no one seems willing to talk about.
Behind the privilege, perfect grades, and carefully planned future is a girl searching for something she can't quite name. She never expected to find it when three scholarship students walked into her elite private school.
Jax is steady, patient, and impossible not to love.
Caleb is guarded, complicated, and hiding more than he'll ever admit.
Kassie becomes the best friend she never knew she needed.
Together, they build a friendship that feels more like home than any place they've ever known.
Spanning a decade, Beneath Our Stars follows four lives forever changed by friendship, first love, devastating loss, and the promises that continue to shape them long after graduation. As they chase dreams, face unimaginable heartbreak, and discover that healing is never a straight path, they'll learn that some people become part of your soul—and loving them changes you forever.
Heartfelt, unforgettable, and deeply emotional, Beneath Our Stars is a coming-of-age romance about grief, healing, found family, enduring love, and the hope that even in life's darkest moments, the stars can still guide you home.
Tropes:
*Indie Author *Friends to More *Small town romance *covers a large period of time
*Emotional *Found family *Spice *Family drama *grief *Second chances *Slow burn
Thoughts:
From the beginning you know this book is going to put you through a roller coaster of emotions... I wish I had grabbed tissues to be honest because this book had be full blown ugly crying during several chapters... because of this I decided to read this alone in my room later at night.
I loved how we start with this group of friends from the beginning when they meet in high school our FMC Bells is from a wealthy family she has a twin sister but her sister has always been more of a social butterfly and spends her time with the popular kids while she doesn't mind hanging out with her sisters friends from time to time she's thrilled to have some new faces at the school when Jax, Caleb and Kassie arrived to the school all receiving a scholarship to the school it's harder for them to fit in since they are foster kids just trying to live day to day and do what they can to improve their lives. Bells befriends the new kids right away no questions asked.
The group of four become pretty inseperable even though the other kids are initially not fully trusting of her intentions towards them Bells wins them over easily with her kind and non-judgemental nature.
Even though Bells and her new friends backgrounds were different all of these kids have had to grow up fast dealing with their own life events that changed how they viewed everything around them in this way it's clear to see that their friendship was inevitable even with guards and walls up around their hearts.
This story continues to cover many years of this friend group through their life changes, the sweet feelings of first love, making big moves, how even if you are close friends life happens and sometimes you grow apart but this makes things even better when you find each other again. Most importantly throughout this is that this group of friends are there for each other when they are most needed.
Part two showed so much bravery and love in the face of the unknown, because the author did such a great job making us fall in love with our group of kids in the first part this second part felt that much more emotional... seriously I was sobbing through most of it and I don't usually like reading tear jerkers but I knew I would be missing out on something special if I didn't read this book.
Part three: was like a rainbow after the storm, while your heart is breaking in the second part this next part focuses on grief, emotional healing, and feelings of how to move on when you feel like your whole world has stopped.
Where there is a great loss you know there was great love, I appreciated that this story showed the reality of grief it doesn't go away automatically and everyone grieves on their own time line it's nothing anyone can rush.
Loving someone new doesn't make your past love mean less it just means that your heart is so big that you have the capacity to love many people in different ways.
I don't want to give too much more away but this was a beautifully written book and I thank the author for the opportunity to read this early copy 💓.
Have you read this one? What did you think?
