Never Over

Author: Clare Gilmore

Title: Never Over

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Date Published: 10/28/2025

Read Dates: 09/24/2025- 09/25/2025
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

Never Over is a single POV, dual timeline second-chance romance. Paige has recently graduated from a songwriting program and is waiting tables while trying to make a break into the music industry. She manages to catch the eye of a music industry professional, but he feels like her lyrics need work. Paige is encouraged to reach out to Liam, the boy she loved who broke her heart, and the last person she felt inspired to write about. Liam agrees to reconnect for the summer, with Paige traveling with him as he works and she writes, and they see if they can fall in love again.

Each book I read by Clare Gilmore just gets better and better. I absolutely loved Never Over. I really liked the dual timeline, between the  present day and when they knew each other while Liam was in college. I love how much they had to change and grow to move from blissfully in love kids to adults who don't lose themselves in a relationship or let fears guide them.

Twenty-five-year-old Paige Lancaster is one contract away from earning a living doing her favorite thing in the world: writing songs. But when a music industry professional suggests she might be holding back with her lyrics to lessen the heartbreak of an old flame, Paige doubts if her music is ready to be heard.

In a rare, impulsive move, Paige contacts Liam Bishop after four years of no contact to ask him for a small favor: date her, and then re-break her heart, all so she can remember what those big, songworthy emotions felt like. And since Liam is the one who first set Paige on this career path, he hesitantly agrees.

Across three months of Liam’s summer work travel, the exes are forced to share hotel beds, rehash the past, and date in the present, all while navigating the building attraction between them they both swore was the one line of their agreement they wouldn’t cross.

But when it becomes near impossible not to act on their rippling chemistry, and as ever intensifying feelings blur the lines of what’s actually real and what’s driven by the music, Paige and Liam will both have to decide what’s more important: art for the sake of it, or love over everything.