by Heather (link)
Genre het, romance, drama
Pairings Isaac/OFC, Taylor/OFC, Zac/OFC
Length 17 chapters
Status Completed
Heather’s stories can be a bit hit or miss for me; the writing is always solid, even if the plots sometimes hit some sour notes. What I can always say, though, is that she packs a lot of plot into sometimes very little story. That’s certainly true of Confessions of the Forgotten.
We’re thrown into the action right away, when Adaire finds out her mother has passed away and she’s expected to return to Tulsa for the funeral. Heather then throws a lot of exposition at us, revealing that Adaire is yet another of her seemingly heartless female characters with a complicated family dynamic. In this case, it involves Adaire being a surprise baby born during her parents’ middle age, creating a large cast of older siblings, nieces and nephews that I was never able to get straight. Most of them don’t make more than a passing appearance, though, other than a bit of conflict with one niece who is quite close to Adaire’s age.
The story is less about Adaire’s family than it is about her connection with Taylor, a connection that she has spent years trying to deny after letting Taylor take the fall while she ran away from home. It’s clear, despite what she says, that she still has feelings for him, and it takes only the few days she’s home for the funeral for those feelings to come right back to the surface. It’s all a rather quick turn around, Adaire’s character growth happening rather quickly, but it’s somewhat understandable that such a traumatic event would be the catalyst for it.
Still, the latter half of the story is where the real meat of it lies, and it’s that half that keeps Confessions of the Forgotten from being boring and tedious. Taylor is an interesting character who has only just begun to show himself by the end of the story. With a little more of him and a little more sexual content, Confessions of the Forgotten might have been my new favorite of all of Heather’s stories, even if it did get off to a slow, unsure start.
Review by Bethany (website)