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Bittersweet Memories (Off-Limits)

Bittersweet Memories (Off-Limits)

byCatharina Maura
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M. Wilkes-DuBois
5.0 out of 5 starsSilas & Alanna: A True Love That Endures! -5 Stars!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 22, 2023
Silas and Alanna met on the saddest day of both their lives, as they each buried a parent. Only teenagers themselves, they established a bond that would continue to put them in each other’s path. Due to separate circumstances beyond either of their control, they both ended up homeless and in a shelter. It was there that they fell in love and struggled to overcome their dire circumstances. Until tragedy struck and Alanna was snatched away from Silas for five years. Silas never stopped searching for Alanna, dedicating his life’s work to finding his lost love.

As fate would have it, Silas and Alanna were able to overcome their unfortunate circumstances and find each other again. However, Alanna has no idea who he is or what they shared. Silas tries to rebuild what they shared as others try to tear them apart.

This was one of the sweetest, throughly-satisfying love stories that I have read in a long time. Silas will steal your heart as he does everything in his power to reclaim the love he lost and Alanna was make you cry as you feel her pain of enduring so much strife and trying to rebuild her life with no memories to base her feelings for Silas on. This book will definitely put you all in your feelings and emotions! A satisfying reunion delivers the sweet HEA that both of these beautiful characters deserve! One of the best romances I’ve ever read and definitely a new favorite!

Happy reading!
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Bird_9
3.0 out of 5 starsNice little read..
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 21, 2023
Absolutely, Bitter Sweet to the end.
I loved Silas and Alanna and can appreciate the hardships that brought them together twice. You can see that Alanna is Silas's world and the love of his life, but I didn't feel the chemistry. I also feel that the book could have used a little more mystery and a little more detail into Ryan and Alanna's relationship.
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M. Wilkes-DuBois
5.0 out of 5 stars Silas & Alanna: A True Love That Endures! -5 Stars!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 22, 2023
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Silas and Alanna met on the saddest day of both their lives, as they each buried a parent. Only teenagers themselves, they established a bond that would continue to put them in each other’s path. Due to separate circumstances beyond either of their control, they both ended up homeless and in a shelter. It was there that they fell in love and struggled to overcome their dire circumstances. Until tragedy struck and Alanna was snatched away from Silas for five years. Silas never stopped searching for Alanna, dedicating his life’s work to finding his lost love.

As fate would have it, Silas and Alanna were able to overcome their unfortunate circumstances and find each other again. However, Alanna has no idea who he is or what they shared. Silas tries to rebuild what they shared as others try to tear them apart.

This was one of the sweetest, throughly-satisfying love stories that I have read in a long time. Silas will steal your heart as he does everything in his power to reclaim the love he lost and Alanna was make you cry as you feel her pain of enduring so much strife and trying to rebuild her life with no memories to base her feelings for Silas on. This book will definitely put you all in your feelings and emotions! A satisfying reunion delivers the sweet HEA that both of these beautiful characters deserve! One of the best romances I’ve ever read and definitely a new favorite!

Happy reading!
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Sandra
5.0 out of 5 stars Epic love story
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 26, 2023
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Can we all agree that this is one of the best books out there? It consumed me and I’m not kidding. I decided to let all my plans go into flames in favor of reading this book.
Here I thought my favorite book by Catharina Maura was the Wrong Bride. I didn’t know what was I talking when I met Silas Sinclair. He demolished all expectations and made me fall so much in love with him, I wanted to hug him for the entirety of the story. I think I’ve never been so not over a couple, I want so much more of them.
Give yourself a gift and read this masterpiece!
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Katherine
5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 23, 2023
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A timeless story that captures your heart Si and Ray are written in the stars to be no matter what obstacles get in their way. There is definitely a higher power driving their lives. The story line is so powerful you cry, smile, laugh, and feel everything you read. That is the power Catharina Maura has as she writes stories that you feel apart of. You get a bit of everything including the spice that we so charismatic in our romantic reads. We get to live in a world not our own in hopes that some part maybe ours.
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Jenn Lopez
5.0 out of 5 stars LOVED THIS BOOK!!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2023
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So I’ve read a few books from Catharina Maura and each one is better than the last one I read. But I must say this one is my favorite out of all her books. My emotions were all over the place. One of the best love story I’ve read. Silas is the man I think everyone wants in real life. It’s funny because the Latin phrase this book has Per aspera ad astra I was going to get it tattoo a couple of months ago but I wasn’t sure and now I’m definitely getting it. It’s a sign lol
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Olgz
5.0 out of 5 stars An Epic Love Story
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 20, 2023
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The Story
This is one of the most the emotionally harrowing stories I ever read and loved. I wish someone would turn it into a movie. I think a lot of readers found this story after reading "The Wrong Bride" then searched for it. In "The Wrong Bride" Silas and Alanna offer Raven solace when she has a tiff with Ares and a small background of their story is given- it made me curious to search for the book.

Silas
Silaswas the best l👌🏾 his love for Alanna was so pure and so profound such that all he wanted was her happiness even if that happiness did not include him. He waited, he searched and he refused to give up that was pretty amazing. In real life however that depth of love is debilitating and weakening and given to the wrong person its a weapon of mass destruction🤷🏾‍♀️😅

Alanna
Alanna was a very sympathetic character to me despite her sometimes thoughtless treatment of Silas. She was living with fractured if not completely absent memories and had to heavily rely on others to make sense of things and that made her very vulnerable. The fact that she really had no family and no one to call her own also made her seek approval and acceptance from people who others consider inconsequential e g. Work colleagues. I like that she stood her own against both Silas and Ryan despite her very vulnerable state and that she immediately wasted no time when she realized who Silas was and what he meant to her.

Ryan
Ryan was almost as much of a villain as Mona was. His actions were purely his. His words were his. His interpretation of events despite glaring evidence were his as well. As things ended he did not deserve any Redemption but well perhaps if CM gives him his own storyand we see him taking actual steps to right his wrongs, we can revisit the issue of Redemption 🤪

I have not been touched by a story in a long time but this story touched me. Very beautiful story. So far the works of CM that I have read have been very impressive. I look forward to exploring more of her work.
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Lee Svette
5.0 out of 5 stars 100000x YES
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 14, 2023
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This book was the perfect palette cleanser after some heavy reads! You will fall in love with the main characters and all the insane twists they go through! Now let me tell you you will GASP in many places in this book and it only gets better as it goes on! You have the love and the spice and you also get the mystery and suspense and it was just a top read of the year for me!!!
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Veronica
5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put down!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 16, 2023
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This was honestly one of the best love stories. The love Si had for Allana was out of this world. It is a love story that will have you laughing and crying but above all else showing you what true love looks like in the face of diversity 😍
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Michelle Lynge
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 14, 2023
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As always I couldn't put this book down. This is love, pain, nostalgia, truly bittersweet in so many ways. You laugh, you get angry, you cry , you hold you breath in suspense and even though you reach the end of the book, you still want more. This is officially my favorite book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars OMG!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 26, 2023
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Catharina is a fairly new author to me. This book has it all! The suspense keeps you reading and anxiously awaiting what’s next! Yes, there is some language, but not too much. There are sex scenes, but not over done. The story is outstanding and I am truly sorry it is over! Love, family, death, drama, office drama, friendship and omg love!! It will take me a very long time to get over this story!! Thank you Catharine Maura!!
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Kalani
5.0 out of 5 stars This author does not disappoint!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 12, 2023
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Another amazing story with lovable characters and a storyline that'll take you through almost every emotion possible. I just couldn't get enough of this and once it started reading I couldn't put it down. Completely adored Silas! I will continue to follow this author. Her books are the bomb!
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