Sometimes It Lasts

"Sometimes It Lasts" is a contemporary new-adult romance by Abbi Glines, continuing the story of Cage York and Eva Brooks from "Because of Low" and "While It Lasts." Cage has landed the baseball scholarship he chased, but distance is harder than he expected. When he learns that Eva has been finding comfort with someone else, the question becomes whether the relationship can survive the cost of the dream he refused to give up.

Glines writes the new-adult subgenre with a specific emotional pitch — first-person, high-feeling, with heroes who are flawed in recognizable rather than melodramatic ways. The Sea Breeze series sits alongside her Rosemary Beach books and her Too Far series in defining what the genre looked like in the early 2010s. Readers of Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire, and Jay Crownover are firmly in the target audience.

This particular installment leans into separation, jealousy, and the question of whether earning a future together justifies risking the present. It works as a continuation more than a standalone — readers who jump in here will miss the buildup of Cage's character arc. Best read after the earlier two Sea Breeze books.

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