I'm not saying that his pen didn't make me delve into the story of Axel and Leah, but that I didn't feel connected to it and those are things that happen.

🔅 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑾𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝑻𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒚 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝑲𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏

Genre: Romance
Rating: 5🌟♾️

Thank you @netgalley, @sourcebookscasa and @alicekellen_ for this the opportunity to read this ARC!

𝐌𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:

All That We Are Together is truly a piece of art. It has been a very long time since I read a romance novel that impacted me so deeply. There is a lot of fluff out there in the romance genre, but this is absolutely not that. Alice Kellen is a poet disguised as a novelist.

This is book two in the ‘Let It Be’ series, book one is ‘All That We Never Were’. I hadn’t read the first book in the series before starting this ARC, and although it can be read as a standalone, I wish I had started with All That We Never Were because I just can’t get enough of Axel and Leah.

Axel and Leah burn hot and fast and make you feel everything along the way. This is a must-read for any romance-lovers that are looking for something deeper. Keep your tissue box handy!

🫶🏼Tropes:
•new adult romance
•second chance
•brother’s best friend
•age gap

This was so terrible. The characters are some of the most annoying, dramatic people? The writing is not bad, the plot is not too bad either, but the characters are simply awful, there was no improvement from the previous book, no growth. Fine, they're in love, but at what cost to the rest of us?

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Casablanca for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

It has been three years since seeing Axel. Three years since Axel broke Leah's heart. Leah has done everything she can to move on, in both her art and with a new boy named Landon. When Leah lands an exhibition for her art. she comes face to face with Axel once again. When Axel offers to be her agent, she hesitantly accepts. When a work trip to Paris arises, it throws them together to look back on their relationship and gives them the push they both need to start a future. Can everything between them work out, or will their past hinder them from being together?

Thank you to the NetGalley and the publisher for the copy of All That We Are Together by Alice Kellen in exchange for my honest and free review.

3.5⭐️

‘And it did it matter how much I ran, you can never escape what you’ve been unless you’re ready to erase those parts of yourself.’

Axel and Leah had a beautiful and tender friendship, a unique connection, a transcendental love. Then they’re torn apart, both left utterly heartbroken.

All That We Are Together (Let It Be Book 2) starts three years after the end of All That We Never Were (Let It Be Book 1). Three years apart, three years since they’ve last seen each other.

It seemed inevitable that they would eventually see each other, that Leah would let Axel back into her life, and that something would happen between them now they’ve found their way back to each other.

While I enjoyed this book but I experienced more of an emotional ride and liked book #1 in the series, but I’m so pleased they eventually got their HEA.

This book is the conclusion of the Let It Be duet, and takes place three years after the ending of the first book. Throughout this book there is more of the angst, the passion, and the heartache of the relationship between Axel and Leah.

I loved this book but thought that it dragged a bit in some parts. Maybe I was just really excited to find out what would happen between these two. I enjoyed how much Leah's art and her education in the art world played into this book. Leah really came into her own in this one, and the growth and depth of her character was intense.

All That We Are Together was a great conclusion to this duet, and wrapped up the story in a very satisfying way. I would recommend it to anyone looking for an angsty and emotional love story along the lines of a Colleen Hoover or Kennedy Ryan author's works.

Thank you so much to Sourcebooks for providing me with an ARC of this book.

The best stories leave you feeling happy and hungry, and “All that we are together” by Alice Kellen does exactly both. 10/10. I would highly be recommending it.

This was very hard to get into. I could not follow the story. I think it just wasn't for me. It was slow to get into and I had a really hard time following the character's narrative and everything else.

STOP NOW & READ THE 1ST BOOK - All That We Never Were! I read approximately 20% of All That We Are Together but feeling that something was off the whole time so I went on a hunt. Come to find out I was missing so much of the backstory of Leah & Axel. Nothing in the NG description suggested to read the first book. I’m so happy I did because book 2 made much better sense when I started it over.

✅Age-gap
✅Brothers best friend/family
✅DPOV
✅Tragedy
✅Finding Oneself
✅ 2/5 spice
✅angst

Overall I enjoyed this book after figuring out it was a sequel. Sometimes I get that the MMC was whiney and didn’t let the FMC choose her path. He wanted to control her.
There were a ton of errors both spelling and grammatical in both books but I just looked over them. I know they will annoy many people. Solid 3/5⭐️

Angsty, passionate, and hopeful!

All That We Are Together is an absorbing, heart-tugging tale that takes us back into the life of Leah Jones and Axel Nguyen three years after their breakup as Leah, now a university student with a new boyfriend and some recognition as a budding artist, has her life turned upside once again when Axel, an employee at a reputable gallery comes slamming back into her world to sweep her away to the City of Lights to showcase her work.

The writing is tender and fluid. The characters are vulnerable, scarred, and wary. And the plot is a push-pull tale of life, love, loss, family, expectations, forgiveness, introspection, acceptance, friendship, communication, and new beginnings.

Overall, All That We Are Together is the dramatic, romantic, satisfying conclusion to the Let It Be duology by Kellen that gave the characters I couldn’t help but root for the heartwarming, happy-ever-after ending I really hoped they get.

I'd eagerly been waiting for this sequel to come out. After reading the first book, I was quite invested in Axel and Leah's romance and whether or not they could repair the damage it had suffered.

This book deals with a large amount of time where they aren't together and then even when they start working their way back together, they really aren't there. Leah can't quite forgive Axel and she's never fully processed how to move forward.

Leah's experienced a great deal of grief in her life. Losing her parents when she was younger made her not want to ever paint again but it was her life's passion. Finally finding her way back to it was a gift. Yet it will always reminder of Axel.

This book is a lot of back and forth with Axel realizing he made a mistake in letting Leah go while she is unsure she can ever trust him again. They both go through some things which will hopefully lead to an overall healthier relationship. This was a heartbreaking story that finally finds it's way to a happy ending. And these two definitely deserve one.

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: The audiobook was enjoyable and done well. The narration felt true to the story and the accents were appropriate (at least they seemed it to me). 4 stars

Thank you to NetGalley for early copies of the ebook and audiobook.

I loved this story more than the first. Leah learns to find herself on her own. Axel learns that Leah needs the space to find herself. It’s heartbreaking, raw and real. But it’s relatable. You become attached to these characters and I was rooting for them to choose each other the whole time.

Absolutely beautiful cover and a great second book in the series. The series is stunning together and has a permanent spot on my bookshelf.

I absolutely loved this book as much as I loved the first one. I loved reading this story because I could really feel it unraveling. I love how this author tells a story in such a way that I literally can’t stop until the book is done. Everything is so descriptive that after the first book I felt like I was waiting for the story to finish and in this book it did. I would read anything this author writes

I was unsure how this one would go after not loving the first one but I was eager to know what would happen with Axel and Leah. For me, the pacing is all off. And while I’m a big supporter of a self journey and finding oneself, the way it’s handled in this story was not for me. I found Axel to be so insufferable and pushy to the point that I cannot even believe Leah put up with it. Some of the intimate interactions were once again so questionable to me. I loved the storyline around art and what it meant for both the mcs but other than that, this fell flat.

Thank you to the publisher for the gifted copies.

“We fell slowly into the trap of each other's eyes.
It was vertigo. Like stumbling all at once into the void.”

“Sometimes we feel alone: we're individualists, and we think only we have felt that emotion that twists our soul or that idea that makes us feel so strange. Then one day, you realize that isn't true. There's an immense world out there full of people, experiences, lives.”

“She can transmit things. And isn't that what it's all about in the end?"

A book about healing and coming back together. A book about taking chances and changing and growing up separately and together again. A book about pain and suffering but also love and life and a family. A book with so many different colours, you can’t help but feel every shade touching you. I really really loved it! After the heartbreak book one out me through, I didn’t know what to expect. The only thing I knew was that I needed to know more about Leah and Axel and what they were doing and how they were dealing. This book put me through every struggle, every doubt, every insecurities and every single brush of paint on a new canvas. Every emotion they had, every single moment of frustration and tension and addiction they had for one another. There is nothing deeper than what they shared and there is nothing more painful either. But I enjoyed somehow sharing all this experience with them. Though highs and lows, through love and hate, loss and coming back to one another. Really really good book.

“Maybe life is moments. Just that. Moments. And sometimes you show up at the right time, and sometimes you don't. Sometimes a second changes everything. Sometimes time draws a line. Sometimes, when you want to talk, the other person isn't in the mood to listen.”

"I was serious about what I said, Leah. I want to kiss you good morning at the beginning of every day. I want to fuck you every single night. I want to come on you and in you. I want you to want me again. I want all that. For us to have it. To be a real couple."

Always is a pleasure to read Alice Kellen stories!
Siempre es un placer leer los libros de Alice Kellen!
Thanks Netgalley and the publisher for the chance to read this book 🫶🏻

Unfortunately this book was not my cup of tea. I understand that any conflict takes time to be.resolved, but in this case it seemed to drag out. I honestly wasn't sure Axel and Leah should even be together.

Lots of angst between Axel and Leah. I missed the first book, which likely would have made this a more rewarding read. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. A rare miss for me but I'm sure others will enjoy it.

As soon as I finished All That We Never Were I KNEW I needed to read the sequel ASAP. I was a bit nervous because as I read the title I assumed they would be getting back together.. and how do you write an entire book about them getting back together?! Well, let's just say I was NOT disappointed. The character development in this book, particularly Axels' was incredible. I loved watching both characters change and their relationship blossom.

This book was a 5/5 out for me. Read this if you love these things
- Found family
-friends to lovers
-brother's best friend
-age gap
-short chapters
-dual POV
-artist
-a little spice
-forbidden love

I am SO glad I stumbled upon All That We Never Were one day and discovered this amazing author.