Having just finished the book, I'm not sure how I really feel about it. At least the ending. So without wanting to spoil the ending, giving an in depth review of the book is a bit tricky.

There was so much to love about the book. The setting of the small fishing town off the coast of Donegal sounds idyllic, even though perhaps it isn't if you have bigger dreams. And sometimes there are secrets. My favorite character in the book, besides Seany is of course, Fionn. My least favorite character would have to be Lainey, Dee isn't that far behind. I understand why she made the choices she did, but....Fionn.

My other issue with the book was the use of first person. I really struggle with these, because of authors mixing tenses and just the overall effect of it. Usually first person narration causes a book to lose at least a half-star.

So overall, I enjoyed this book. It was a great book for a good cry. I just wanted more, and different.

Thank you, NetGalley, for the chance to read and review this book. All opinions expressed are mine and freely given.

I didn’t enjoy this book. I thought I would like it but unfortunately I just didn’t vibe with it. I got this book as an arc in exchange for an honest review

Bring tissues! This is the heartbreaking story of Dee Dee and Ffion. They first meet with Dee Dee comes to the Island where her lives for summer as a teenager. Mainlanders and Islanders don’t mix…. years ago an Islander got a Mainland girl pregnant. But Dee Dee and Ffion fallin love; and this is their story from the day they meet until they are much older. They’re not destined to be together, but they can’t live without each other. Absolutely loved this book.

Thank you Netgalley and Publisher for my advance copy ♥️


The Promise of Forever is a totally epic story about Dee and Fionn, who are meant to be. But life gets in the way and they end up on different paths. It’s set in Ireland and London, which is so cool. And they're trying to figure out their lives, but their connection is still there, you know? It's a thread that runs deep, even when things get rough.


OMG and the characters in this book are so well-developed! They're all super unique and play their roles perfectly. The story is really engaging and moves along nicely, no unnecessary drama or filler words! It's like, a solid read that had me feeling all the feels ( Warning: tissues needed!). I loved it so much, I'm totally checking out the author's other books now! 📚❤️

Beautiful story! Here are some tropes/facts:
❤️romance
😪emotional
💔heartbreak
😔loss
🇮🇪irish
🏝island life
🤭forbidden love
👥️complicated family

This is a beautiful story about a family with 3 sons completely changing the life of main character Dee, having such a strong connection to all 3 sons, and somehow having all of them breaking her heart, one over and over again. This is so beautifully written, that even my heart is breaking while reading. I absolutely recommend.

Thank you to netgalley and the author for sending me the book in exchange for an honest review.

Brooke Harris - The Promise Of Forever.

Goodness me. What a book!
I feel like I’ve been dragged through a rainbow of emotions with this one.

#ThePRomiseOfForever is a compelling story that kept me gripped to the very last page.
Full of Irish charm, warmth and wit.
This is a book that will simultaneously break your heart and equally fill it with warmth and love.

Unforgettable, sweet, funny, touching, achingly sad and breathtaking.
A book that will stay with me for a long time to come.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

With thanks to Netgalley and Storm Publishing for a digital arc of this title.

Just ignore me over here picking the pieces of my heart up off the floor....

This was such an emotionally charged and heartbreaking book and I inhaled it. Apparently I'm a masochist. Once I started it, I was obsessed with seeing how it ended. The story focuses on Dee who loved three brothers in very different ways and had her heart broken by each of them in a different way. This was a gritty and often painful telling of a family's life. The ups and downs that we are often faced with and how to handle them.

The book starts when Dee is a teenager and follows her into adulthood. There are tragedies that occur which alter plans and goals. Insecurities come out and endanger relationships. Basically, everything is blown off course and Dee is left wondering how to move forward.

I hesitate to say too much because I don't want to give up the plot. I reiterate that this is an emotional rollercoaster of a book. Don't go into it expecting anything light-hearted because you definitely won't find it here. I saw someone in another review compared this book to Sally Rooney's Normal People and I completely agree. I definitely did have those vibes.

Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC. I voluntarily chose to read and review it and the opinions contained within are my own.

A beautifully moving book about love, loss, family and the hardships life throws at you. This is a very emotional book which will make you cry. It is powerful, it is a rollercoaster ride and it is brilliant. I could not put this down.

What really made this story real is the characters and how well the author portrayed them. You really could believe them, understand them and feel they were people you might know. I loved it and would highly recommend. I need to find more books by this wonderful author.

Thank you NetGalley and Storm Publishing for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

This book made me cry! Like ugly cry! This book was so moving and beautiful as well. I simply adored this book.
I just reviewed The Promise of Forever by Brooke Harris. #ThePromiseofForever #NetGalley
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"He's an imprint now. A permanent mark on my soul."

When you meet the "one" but it's a question of,
"We're very different people."
"No we're not; we just live in very different places."

The poignant The Promise of Forever by tearjerker, grab your heart and squeeze it, author Brooke Harris is an Irish tale of young fisherman Fionn and fairly well to do Dee falling in love as teenagers despite the disapproval of their families. Through tragedies, fulfilling life goals, and various lovers Fionn and Dee always seem to find each other but fail to hold on to forever.

This is the second book I have read from this author and she has a way of making you root for the forlorn. The hope that through some shocking deaths, jaw dropping twists, and personal sacrifices for family, these two will find a way to be together is an actual physical pain at times.

Dee wants to fulfill her career dreams. She wants to believe her and Fionn are strong enough to wait for one another as life forces other roads in their path. A devastating accident leaves Fionn living with unnecessary guilt that leaves him feeling unworthy of the happiness he could have with Dee.

I was floored by how it ends, I ugly cried all night because despite the fiction of this story we all know how guilt, sacrifice, and grief can destroy not only a relationship but ourselves. There are no promises of forever so, as is the moral of this story, grab the love now.

I received a free copy of this book from Storm Publishing via #NetGalley for a fair and honest review. All opinions are my own.

This beautiful, powerful and very emotional story absolutely broke me! It’s so wonderfully written, with a fantastic storyline that hit me right in the heart. The characters are beautifully depicted, and very engaging, and the love, the wanting, just pervades the pages! Dee and Ffion’s story broke my heart, and made me cry. There is so much in this story, not only love, but deeper, darker things, that are handled with so much sensitivity. I couldn’t put this book down, and I know that I will go back to it again and again. I’ve never read this author before, but definitely will from now on. Highly recommended.

Emotional and provocative, The Promise of Forever stayed with me long after I finished the book. It begins with Dee, a Irish high school student who spends a summer on a remote Irish island to learn the language and culture of her heritage. But she learns so much more when she meets two brothers who will imprint on her heart for the rest of her life, along with their older brother. As the blurb says: one dies, one she falls in love with and third she marries. There's heartbreak here but love and laughter too. A big thank you to Storm Publishing, NetGalley and Brooke Harris for the advance reader copy. I enjoyed it.

I'm so glad Brooke Harris is back with another book! I loved Memories of you so I was so excited when I saw she had another one coming out. This book had me hooked from beginning to end. This book had wonderful characters. I'm not much of a crier but I did get choked up. This is such a great read and would highly recommend this book!!


Thank you NetGalley and Storm Publishing for allowing me to read this ARC for my honest opinion.

I finished this book last night, and I'm still sad! This is the second book I've read now from Brooke Harris and the way she has the ability to make you cry throughout the whole book and feel sooooo much empathy and hearthbreak for the characters is amazing. I basically read it in a day, minus the chapter or two i had read a couple days before. I plan on doing an actual synopsis for my goodreads review but when i tell you, I literally cannot right now, because I will be a puddle, and I have to pick up my kids from school in 20 minutes. There's honestly so much to say about this book, I need time to find the words, and I wanted to get this review in right away!

Thank you so much to Netgalley, Storm publishiing, and Brooke Harris (I accept your apology for all the tears and I am such a fan, you are an instant pickup author for me from now on!) for the ARC, All opinions are my own.

Thanks so much NetGalley and Storm publishing for a tender love story. I liked how the plot followed lives intertwined over a long timespan. I couldn't pick a favorite of the three O'Connell boys.

I have never read anything by this author but this is one seriously emotional book. However, it is very well written with totally relatable characters. Well done to Brooke

This story is about Dee. But it's not only about her. It's about three brothers who all touched her life in some way over the past twenty or so years; Finn, Sean and Oisin O'Connell. We start off being in a small fishing village on an island off Donegal where Dee and her friend Lainey are sent to a Gaelic school. It's there that Dee meets Finn and his younger brother Sean. They grow close over the weeks and when it is time for Dee to leave, they promise to keep in touch. But then tragedy strikes and their lives are thrown into chaos. Years later and Dee is working in London and reconnects with older brother Oisin.
I am not sure I can say much more about this book without spoiling things. You already know from the blurb that one brother dies, one brother Dee falls in love with, and the other she marries, so you can garner from that the emotions that you will experience during the book. And emotional it blooming well is too. Heartbreaking at times, but also occasionally also very funny which means that it isn't too dark and stays balanced. But yeah, you might want to have a box of tissues handy and, probably not a good idea to read it on the bus!
The characters are really brought to life both by the story being told and by the way they have been created, They are all well described and all play their parts very well indeed.
The story gets on with itself very well too. There is no superfluous waffle or padding to distract and the description is only really used for scene setting and narrative progression.
All in all, a good solid read that apart from it nearly crushing me emotionally, I thoroughly enjoyed. It's my first book by this author but I will definitely be checking out her back catalogue. My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

What can I say about this book, firstly it made me cry, happy and sad tears. I was hooked from the start and didn’t want to do anything else but read this wonderful story. The characters in this book were all written about so well.

I received a free copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for a honest review.

Emotions and heartbreaking. I liked the connection between Fionn and Dee, loving each other throughout all the years but I really wish that they should be together, I was counting on it. The end came as a shock. It was a great read with lots of beautiful moments but the ending left me disappointed.

At first sight you may think this book is your typical romance novel.

It is not.

As a teenager Dee is sent to Gaelic school for three weeks and can think of nothing she'd like to do less. But that soon changes when she meets the O'Connell brothers. The three will have a huge impact on her life during the next twenty years.

A story of heartbreak. A story of missed chances and meeting the right person at the wrong time. A story of love and it's endless possibilities.

A well written tale that will have you reaching for the tissue box.

Thanks to netgalley and Storm Publishing for the arc.