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Always (Forever Trilogy)
by Jude Deveraux
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Pocket (2004-10-26)
ISBN: 0743479017
EAN: 9780743479011
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Release Date: 2004-10-26
SKU: M119378
Condition: Very Good
Comments: 0743479017 MMPB free of markings. Cover shows light wear. Interior & spine evidence only gentlest use. Overall, a very pretty copy. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Darci has never given up searching for her kidnapped husband, Adam Montgomery. But her quest has taken her deeper into the world of psychic phenomena than she ever dreamed -- or dared to go. When the FBI enlists her help in locating the missing father of undercover agent Jack Rose, Darci signs on for the covert operation, not knowing that her attraction to handsome, sexy Jack is about to lead her into deadly territory -- and into an era long past. For Jack has a protector, a mysterious nineteenth-century lady who pulls them into a time and place where Darci is stripped of her abilities. Can she find the key that links to the modern-day crimes she's set out to solve? And will a showdown with a wicked force from the past hold her hostage...for all eternity?
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Customer Reviews
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Not my favorite but better than the last one!
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-09-22
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS INCLUDES SPOILERS*
Having read the Forever trilogy, I will say that in my opinion Jude Deveraux really should've just stopped after Forever. Forever was WONDERFUL - you saw real love, 2 cases of it actually with Adam and Darci, who are one of my new fav couples, and Bo and Taylor, it had great characters and you knew that in the end everyone lived happily ever after. At least that is until Forever and Always when we find out Adam and his sister Bo have been kidnapped and Darci's been slandered as "the hillbilly honey" with everyone claiming she killed him. There, she had to help Lincoln find his son, which led her to Henry and Devlin. Always then picks up with her having to help Jack so that she can find Adam.
Personally, I hated forever and always. I skipped through most scenes with Linc and just read the parts about Darci and Adam or Devlin or Darci and Henry. I just HATED the character of lincoln, ESPECIALLY with how he kept lusting after her. It was sweet with ADam, cause they were soulmates and fell in love and yet he couldn't touch her till after they stopped the witch, but with Linc it just seemed dirty and wroing because Darci's already found her true love.
Always on the other hand was REALLY good in my opinion. I liked that Jack and Darci were really just good friends, like brother and sister, no lustful thoughts about unsnapping teddys, and both found true love in the end. Jack realized that he was always supposed to be with Lavender, and so he found her again in the present. I loved how Millie ended up. I love the civil war era so reading about that was great. And I LOVED ADAM DRAYTON!! It was great to see Adam Montgomery in another life, at least I assume it was him, though it would've been nice to see that Diana was actually DArci in another life (the whole "she didn't have another life" thing made sense at the end but also didn't cause does that mean that Diana's spirit is really Adam's soulmate, not Darci?). I felt Darci made the right choices here and everything ended as it should. Some say you're not sure Taylor and Bo/Elizabeth (the name Adam's parents give her cause she wasn't raised by the witch) get together, but Darci sent Taylor a note from Elizabeth asking him to come backstage at the show - since Darci and Adam's true love wasn't only because of the circumstances with the witch, you have to assume Taylor and Bo's wasn't either, so they fall in love at first sight AGAIN. As for the kids, going to the past showed that those spirits were always meant to be with Darci and Adam - they were Adam Drayton's daughters in a past life, similar names and everything, and so they'll still be Adam and Darci and Taylor and Bo's daughters in the changed present.
Here were my only complaints with the book. 1. I would've liked a better explanation of Mr. Hallbrooke, why does he suddenly want his son involved? I know Millie's spirit made JAck angry, but just saying "oh the father wants to see his son NOW walah" doesn't really make sense. 2. You never found out what happened to Adam and Bo before Darci changed it! Where'd they go? Who took them? Why couldn't Darci find them? I know she knows they were taken to test her, but WHY? What happened? There were a lot of questions that were left unanswered, instead we were just told that Darci changed it so ADam and Bo weren't kidnapped by the witch in the first place so they weren't kidnapped again years later and they end up happy the end. 3. My other complaint was how the question of controllng Devlin was never answered - just all of a sudden she could control him like a genie? 4. And most of all, WHAT THE HECK DID HENRY MEAN WHEN HE SAYS WHAT HE SAYS IN THE EPILOGUE!!!!
All in all I'd say this was not my favorite of the series, that place is held by Forever because the couple of ADam and Darci is just so amazing. But ALways is a close 2nd, and definitely WAY above forever and always for me.
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I really liked the series BUT
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-05-10
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Really it ended in a way that made you think that there was going to be another book. I am very sad to see that this is a last book and that is that which almost makes it not work the read. I love Jude Deveraux's books, I really do but I haven't read a series that ended this way before. I rated it high because over all I did like the series, but as far as I'm concerned it needs to be finished. What happens?
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By far the best of the trilogy
Rating  (4)
Date: 2006-11-01
3 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
Always is the concluding story of the Forever Trilogy; the story of Adam and Darci Montgomery. In book one, Forever, Adam hires Darci as an assistant as he investigates his kidnapping when he was a child and the death of his parents. As far as Darci is concerned, she is there to raise money to get her hometown out of debt and thus freeing her from the obligation of having to marry the son of the wealthiest man there.
Darci has always known there was something "weird" about her. She could locate things and people that were lost and sometimes could perceive what would happen in the future. These abilities shamed her and she tried to hide it.
Once her and Adam were together, Darci discovered that her abilities made her special and she could use them to aid Adam in his investigation. Forever climaxes with the ultimate confrontation between Adam, Darci and the powerful witch who murdered Adam's parents. Adam also discovers that he has a sister, named Boadicea, who was kidnapped at birth and is being held captive by the witch.
Darci kills the witch's minions and the witch herself with her abilities and saves the day. Forever closes when Darci and Adam, and Darci's Dad and Boadicea, marry and both give birth to two very gifted little girls.
Forever and Always opens with the news that Adam and Boadicea have disappeared and Darci has been publicly accused of murdering them for the Montgomery money. In the midst of this, Darci's mother sends a renowned actor, named Lincoln Aimes, to Darci for help in locating his missing son.
Darci, at first refuses to help, but then changes her mind when she senses that by helping Lincoln, she'll get closer to solving the mystery of Adam and Boadicea's disappearance.
The rest of the story is really to pave the way for Darci to meet the most powerful human being on earth, psychically of course. His name is Henri and he's a very old man who has only a few months to live. His goal is to test Darci and see if she is deserving of his abilities.
The second installment, of course, closes with a happy ending and with Darci passing Henri's test with flying colors, but she is no closer to discovering what happened to her husband. That mystery will finally be solved in the third book of the trilogy: Always.
Always continues the trilogy with the introduction of Jack Rose, an undercover FBI agent who is coerced to join forces with Darci to help locate his missing billionaire father. Jack is, at first, very critical, almost violently, of Darci and her abilities, but she eventually wins him over when she helps him get rid of a malevolent spirit who has been clinging to Jack since he was born.
While in the process of locating Jack's father, Darci also has to locate certain magical objects that will help her find Adam and Boadicea. Darci and Jack's adventure take them to the past where they get rid of Jack's unwanted companion and also recover more magical objects.
The book, of course, ends with Darci's ultimate reward, the ability to undo what happened to Adam and Boadicea. As for Jack, he makes up with his father, finds the love of his life and basically lives happily ever after.
I think this is my favorite book in the trilogy. The first two were tedious as the author laid down the groundwork for the final installment but I think it was well worth it. Darci is an enigmatic and memorable character. I can only hope that Ms Deveraux will write more books with Darci as the main character.
I, however, highly recommend that you read the first two books before tackling this one. Otherwise, you'll have a hard time following the storyline.
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Very sad
Rating  (2)
Date: 2006-09-01
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
I am a big fan of Jude Deveraux,and I have enjoyed every one of her books I have read,including Forever and forever always but was very dissapointed in this novel.
Maybe she will write a forth book of this series.I hope.I really liked Darcy and I love Adam and the fact that is cousin Michael Taggart,"Sweet Liar" another Jude book, is mentioned in this book.Along with some of the characters and plots intoduced in this story.But I was left unsettled by the books end.
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what happened????
Rating  (1)
Date: 2006-07-26
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
how did it end???what was resolved???...i read this book but did not find out what happened to her husband and to her family...very poorly written....
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