More Than by N. E. Henderson

More Than Memories by N.E. Henderson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Memories are never forgotten. Or so it’s said, but she did. She forgot herself, me, and us. She forgot everything. One day I woke up and there was only pain. This pain is so fierce that I can’t overcome it alone. My heart was ripped from my chest and I’m surviving, but barely. Not even the physical outlet I seek to purge the torment of remembering the one I can’t let go helps anymore. In all of his agony what if the worst of his pain has yet to be expelled; a secret that could have changed everything had he known. Every day that I wake up I’m in a fog. Before ten years ago I feel like I didn’t exist. Everything I ever knew had been erased. Some days I wish I had bad memories because even those are better than none at all. Instead, I feel like I’m a character in a storybook, merely acting a role. I don’t know why, but none of it feels real. That’s crazy, right? Still, I can’t shake the feeling that everyone is hiding something from me. Even the man that lies next to me at night sometimes feels like a stranger. I just want to feel like I belong in my own life. Everything in her life feels borrowed, but that’s a secret better left unspoken.

I went in blindly with this book. And it was good.
‘You know the saying, opposites attract? Well, it was true for us. He was good, and I was the bad girl.’
Whitney and Shane are imperfectly perfect together, best friends since they were little and madly in love. Their life is full of beautiful memories that are meant to fill their future with love lyrics and heart songs. The music is stolen from them in one tragic moment.
Fast forward a decade, a life that can’t possibly be what you desired, but can’t remember a better past, a painful future that misses his other half, the music slowly starts in the present to unveil memories that only dreams can conjure.
Whitney and Shane are soul mates, even if her eyes don’t see him, her mind can’t place him, her body recognizes his. Shane is not letting her go again after finding her. And if Whitney now has a family, a life made for her by her parents, and their lost time cannot be regained, Shane finds himself with a family of his own, that makes him fight even harder to save his loved ones from a crazy man.
The book is beautifully written, in dual POV and kept me on my toes with each heartfelt word. A story full of drama, love, suspense, betrayal, that captivated me and made me ache along with the characters. I didn’t expect that it will be such a combination of feelings – sadness and joy, hope, hate(some people do terrible things for money and some are plain crazy). But I do enjoy a story in which the power of love overcomes the imaginable and ends with a ‘foreverly after’.

Note: ARC provided by NetGalley

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More Than Memories is a standalone, but book two in the More Than series.