#our ride to forever

[critical-quoter]

Your capacity for holding grudges doesn't even remotely match your capacity to love.

Our Ride to Forever - Julie Olivia

[bitty-books]

Our Ride to Forever

By Julie Olivia

Finished: 7.19.2023

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Julie Olivia you’re insane

Going into this book, I’m going to be honest, Theo and Orson were the couple that interested me the least. By the end? I think they’re close to being my favorite ( I’m so sorry Lorelei and Emory). The chemistry that Julie was able to give them is crazy. I don’t think I’ve read a book where the main couple meshes so we’ll together. You can tell they both care so deeply for one another even if they don’t want to admit it to themselves.

I see a lot of myself in Theo and her experience with living up to the high expectations that she puts on herself due to her family. Also I heavily relate to Orson’s tendency to give too much of himself away. Julie Olivia is so great at making characters that feel real. I think that’s what is so charming about this series.

PHEWWW the spice in this one is immaculate. Definitely the book with the most in this series so far.

I’m also learning through this series is that I’m a big fat sucker for the “he falls first trope”, so thanks for that lol.

God I don’t want this series to be over :(( I’ve only got the last one to go. But oh my god Ruby and Bennett’s story is about to go crazy I think. So still excited even if I’m sad about the end.

[bookishbethanyerin]

• Review: Our Ride to Forever •

Since discovering and *adoring* the Honeywood Fun Park books last year, I’ve been looking so very forward to more additions to this series of interconnected stand-alones.

And y’all – “Our Ride to Forever” is the *perfect* addition.

Following Theo, the ride supervisor at the local amusement park and a part-time yoga instructor, and Theo, the owner of the local bar, we get a fun, flirty, scorchingly hot story with so much heart.

There’s a complicated one-night stand to standing hook-up to (secret!) marriage of convenience to barely friends pipeline, nuanced family and friend situations, self-worth work, anxiety rep, and a roommates of convenice set-up that brings so much crackling tension that you can basically feel it rippling off the page.

And the spice?? Julia said this is the spiciest book she’s written and she was nooooot lying. Both Theo and Orson (*especially Orson*) are confident people with A+ communication skills – in the bedroom, with a wall between them, and anywhere else they find themselves.😏😏

Sweet, swoony, and so spicy, “Our Ride to Forever” will have you smiling from beginning to end.

4.5🌟

3🌶️

🎢A gigantic thank you to Julie Olivia for the opportunity to read and review an advanced copy of ORTF!💕

[arsenicflame]

It's a time-honoured tradition- every time Sam comes across Izzy (and Ed) in their travels, he asks Izzy to marry him. And every time, Izzy turns him down.

At this point, Sam is asking more for the sake of it than any belief Izzy will ever say yes, a remnant of childhood dedication touched with 30 years of heartbreak and regret- though even now, a small part of him still holds out hope. Sam's promises have only got more extravagant over the years, from a job as his first mate, to a captaincy, a fleet at his command, a whole fucking island if that's what Izzy wants- but he knows it isn't though, not really. If Izzy was ever going to agree to marry him, to leave his life and go with Sam, it wouldn't be for anything Sam could offer him. Izzy never did care for flashy shows of wealth, for a ship or to be captain. The only thing that ever mattered to him was loyalty given, and loyalty shown in return. 

It all comes to a head after Stede left and came back, after Izzy lost a toe, lost his leg. Sam hasn't seen him since before things with Ed started to really slide off the rails, before stress permanently set into the lines of Izzy’s face. So, when he sees a dishevelled man with a hoof for a leg in a no-name port, he doesn't even consider the idea that he might know him. It's only when he turns towards him, and Sam catches a glance at those oh too familiar tattoos, he realises this is Izzy, his Izzy, that stands before him.

Knowing Izzy's discomfort with pity, he doesn't treat him any differently than he would in years gone by, positioning himself in Izzy's line of sight before approaching and sweeping him up into a bone crushing hug. 

“Israel-goddamn-Hands!” he exclaims, as Izzy grumbles back a begrudging “Samuel-fucking-Bellamy”, a tradition almost as old as their friendship itself. Izzy might not hug him back, but he can’t keep the corner of his mouth from twitching, just for a second.

(If Sam holds Izzy a little tighter and a little longer than usual, well. That's his business)

By the time Sam lets go, most of the crew has appeared in the town square, drawn in by the commotion. They may have given Izzy his leg and welcomed him as one of them, but still there’s an underlying tension, with nobody quite ready to set aside everything that happened before the Kraken. Seeing him cosying up to an unknown man sets everyone on edge, unsure whether to come to their first mate’s aid, or to assume that they've been betrayed once again.

When Ed sees that the yelling was Sam, his hand goes tense where it's held in Stede's. He knows the routine, has seen it more times than he can count, but as he watches them part he realises that this is the first time in a long time he's unsure of what Izzy's response will be.

Knowing that something’s different, knowing that Izzy's feeling vulnerable already, Sam doesn't go for the same flashy proposal he’s been giving for years. He doesn't promise Izzy the world, he doesn't cause a scene (or, any more of a scene than he already has, anyway). He looks at the fractured man in front of him, takes his face in his hands, and says the exact same thing to him he said when they were little more than boys. “Israel, I have to ask you. I know what you'll say, but I have to try. Come with me. Marry me and sail away with me. I'll keep you safe”

And Izzy… hesitates. He glances over at Ed, at Stede, and says to Sam “...We’re staying in port for a week. Ask me again then”

That's the moment Sam knows there is something deeply, horribly, wrong. He's not just looking at an Izzy who got seriously injured in a fight and is struggling to cope, this is something so much bigger than that- and that Ed has something to do with it. Izzy wouldn't even be considering leaving if he didn't. Whether it was negligence or something more sinister, Sam doesn't yet know, but he intends to find out.

[egophiliac]

they revealed the villains for ride kamens, and one of them is a woman who radiates the same energy as lady dimitrescu from resident evil 8 village and i am all for seeing a bunch of idiots of varying types fighting a woman with strong mommy energy

I'm already a little. 😳. over Truth? I had to drop everything and draw her immediately, because those SHAPES. her shapes!!!!

I don't know if I'm going to finish this I just HAD to draw her hair

[justalittlelilac]

It's so fun to write fan fic for something that isn't even out yet. Like would this character go to college? They are for the time being. Does this character like pie? Until further notice, they definitely have a ravenous sweet tooth.

[carcarrot]

its important to go see a low stakes concert sometimes

[knifekris]

every day i struggle to make choices

[d4ydream-girl]

seeing ppl be actually upset over the main channel layout change is lk annoying me... you know smosh isn't just ian and anthony right? there are other cast members for a reason and it's unfair to expect them to center main around ianthony forever. the rest of the cast deserve to not be confined to pit games and the pod!!

[schoenht]

sorry if I wasn’t clear, but we did have stage directors and such, but we didn’t have that many people in crew as a whole because the new director is a bitch (literally the only word I could possible use to describe her.) Anyways, the guy Im talking about is basically just the opposite of what I read. His first reaction after the show was to run off the stage and up to the light booth just to hug me, pick me up and spin me around a bunch. LIKE????? I THINK ABOUT THAT DAILY Also he’s helping me a bunch because there’s this one creepy guy who keeps flirting with me and being all touchy, but school won’t do anything about him. But he agreed to walk me to all my classes, even though he doesn’t have most of his classes even near mine and he’s defending me from the creep. But also idk in general.

-🌺

wtf the duality of tech lives: yours vs mine GOOD FOR YOU IM VERY HAPPY FOR YOU

But technical directors that dont know what they're doing SUCKKKKK

[wildsaltair]

when the day comes that I stop posting on this blog, it will be because I have finally been swept away in marriage to Maximus Decimus Meridius and all my dreams have come true

[critical-quoter]

Why cage a bird that needs to fly?

Our Ride to Forever - Julie Olivia

[johndonneswife]

lq iphone pics, hq time

[the-halfling-prince]

Designed a dress I want to make heavily inspired by Merida from brave and then I decided to draw it on Merida.

The original sketch:

[bongsavior]

HOWEVER !!!!!!!!!!

[keeps-ache]

it's actually very mean that i can't have emojis of my ocs just on my computer. i just think it would be much more convenient for when i have to say the Guys are in my brain but i also have no words..