Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home: Book 3 (Original Cover Collection) (Magnolia Parks Universe)

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All my best nights, all my worst ones, all are with him and I wonder if this is the point. This is what I'm swimming towards: not just in love with him but a whole wonderful, terrifying, beautiful, painful life with him.”

I have all these ties to him. First boyfriend, first kiss, first love, first time, first everything, really. How he was my teacher and my partner in so many key life areas. My best friend and my family and my pillow and my quilt.” Am I surprised by my rating? Very much as I thought I’d rate it 2-3 stars so look away 🫣 rtc whenever I can put into words my scattered emotional thoughts 😭 this book literally consumed me and took me out from frustration that I had to put my book down when it was over—and that messed up ending?? Left me gasping as I never saw it coming but at least I got the drama I wanted right?save me. pls save me. i can get over never written threesomes and i can bear dumb dialogues and dumb ass scenes. but what i can’t get over is when a manwhore and LOVE INTEREST calling the “girl of his dreams” a slut for having sex with another man. The most beautiful boy in every room, the great love of my life—how many loves do you get in a lifetime? I remember wondering that. How many people will look at me like he does, not just like I’m the sun but like I’m the whole god damn universe.” lets not even talk about how much i cried during this book. and not just one two tears im talking full on body shakes, need to take a break bc i cant see, the pain is too much and the tears wont stop. embarrassing. get a grip.

i would like to say one thing about magnolia and bj’s relationship — no matter which way we see it, for whatever reason he did it, bj cheated first. he did it. and i don’t care what reason it was — yes, he got sexually assaulted, but he chose not to talk it out with magnolia and solve their problems together. that’s what being in a relationship means, i assume — facing the world together, fighting away anything that causes them pain. and i know for a fact that if bj had just opened up to magnolia at that time, she would’ve been the most understanding and caring person ever and would’ve been so receptive to everything he said and i just know her heart would’ve broken for what he’d gone through at such a young age, too. Tom: best character. him and Magnolia gave to "in an other life" chant another meaning and i’ll always cherish their relationship and the way he treated her.

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i knew this was going to happen i felt it in my bones. i wanted to be so wrong BUT HERE WE ARE. i will never forgive you jessa hastings. mark my words. reading this book was like watching a car crash occur multiple times but never being able to fully look away. the characters in this book or so incredibly flawed. it is like this constant push and pull whether or not you should be angry with them or sympathize with them. and in the end my heart just hurt for some and wanted to murder the rest 🔪 i disparately needed some substance to their 'written in the stars' type of bond and relationship. the 3rd december glorification emphasized some heartbreaking and beautiful colors from it but its effects evaporated before the start of Part Two and that’s where i lost the spark and magic the first book sculpted around them. i absolutely love the bond w her sister bridget. she’s the only sane person in this book, calls everyone out on their bullshit and just slayed. Christin: i liked him at first and then i understood why he was bestfriend with bj. execrable. but glad he had enough courage to stood up for himself at the end.

I liked magnolia a lot more in this book than book 1. In this, she sometimes hurts bj like how he hurts her and I was proud of her 😌. there are a few things she does that I don’t agree with, but I’ll always defend her <3 Call me insane but I love being apart of this universe now especially as you can also find beauty in the rawness of it. This was very angsty and idk if I loved or hated it haha probably both. I do have to say that If you thought the last book was a rollercoaster of emotions this book tops it x100. Although, it did have its happy and humorous moments so there’s that. Bridget is my bloody favourite !!! She carries Magnolia’s book entirely, she’s so funny and witty and carefree and sure of herself and just a ray of sunshine. I love her and I will accept nothing but her happiness (I don’t care if I’m delusional). There’s so much I want to know about her, this cannot be what happens. It just can’t. Some of my favorite moments between them are the ones they have with each other but also: The lost item, the walk and that phone call. the willow tree, the tattoos he has (please look up the fan art for it) 🥺, the nostalgic yet profound conversations they had when they were good, the hotel scene, the part where bj didn’t want to leave and of course towards the end. Idk if I’m missing one but just know when they were good I was good and cherished the happy and even emotional moments.

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Julian remains my king, he is first and foremost the best. I need a book about him like we all need air and water. Lowkey hate him being another man in Magnolia’s trap but damn was he good with her, he can’t be someone’s boyfriend but he would be the very best! He can do no wrong (he can and he has, but he’s trying ok) and his tiny vulnerable moments- are you kidding me I can’t love him more ok. This book is so beautifully written and the love portrayed is so powerful and earth shattering, yet so broken and ugly. It just feels so real to me. How do you even review this?? This book was a hot toxic dramatic mess. it consumed me and had me completely hooked. It almost feels contradictory how I review this as it also had me question my own judgement and left me frustrated—but the drama was executed amazingly to me and I ate it up But I care for him too bc he loved parks and no one else. 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁. I mean he made his body a canvas of tattoos where each one relates to the love of his life. That’s pretty telling. 𝐇𝐞’𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈’𝐦 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐦 (ง'̀-'́)ง

Wonder how long it’ll take for us to get to the place where I can just throw my arm about her, let her be mine out loud, not just inside my head.” I honestly did not expect this book to make me feel ALL THESE EMOTIONS but I am a broken mess. I still feel like I have so much to process. I may have pulled out some of my hair and had my heart skip a couple beats and drop outta my ass but this was incredible. whoever, i want to see what happens to everyone after that ending and Jessa Hastings’ plume is still hypnotizing and this was basically the only reason that pushed me to not abandon this universe. there were so many highlighted moments and quotes from this like the first book—jessa is truly a poet lol so these are just a few of the many

I can’t tell you how many times I wanted to shove bj against a wall for driving me insane. he had me fuming during certain points with hurting her the way he did. It was unintentional but intentional the way he does. And then he says certain things that sorta tugged on my heart but those feelings never stayed for too long as he made sure of it with his unrelenting actions. It’s difficult to explain how I’d like to see him redeem himself given what I thought about him here and somehow the little faith I have in him is there given how complex of a character he is. Like it was just so extra and it kept my attention all the damn time to the point where I hated the fact that I had to part with the book to sleep. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱.