The Days I Loved You Most is the story of a marriage over several decades--from enlisting in WW2 to the current time. It made me laugh and cry---as the characters both told their story in alternating chapters--going back in forth across time, as well.

Joseph and Evelyn's marriage is one that knows love and pain....including death, war, children, and hard times. When faced with Parkinson's, they must decide how they will handle it....on their own terms. Their loves is patient, kind, and long suffering....and always has them begging for just more time.

A debut novel----wow, wow! Thank you NetGalley for this ARC!

“The Days I Loved You Most” by Amy Neff was one of the most beautifully written, heart wrenching novels I have ever read. It’s the epic love story and family saga of a couple who decides to have one final perfect year together after a devastating life ending diagnosis is given to one of them. We are swept into their story of how to create wonderful final memories for their children and grandchildren. And, at the same time we have an honest look into the challenges they had with their children, and their own relationship, as they face the consequences of what they are about to do. This is an unforgettable tribute to the power of love and a truly great novel!

Thank you NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for the ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

This is the most heartbreaking, heart wrenching, and heartwarming book I've ever read. This book will tear you apart and put you back together better than you started. I've never read anything like this before, I can't stop thinking about it! I will recommend this book from the rooftops for the rest of my life.

Wow! Where to begin? Amy Neff’s The Days I Loved You Most is such a poignant novel. Joseph and Evelyn take turns telling their love story from the beginning to end. They share about their struggles and their unconditional love, the way their lives became one. I loved this book so much that I plan on rereading it.

Love stories aren’t normally my go-to but the pull of Evelyn and Joseph’s life together is undeniable.

The world Amy Neff has created is enriched with a million metaphors and similes that often had me rereading lines just for the pleasure of the way they sounded. With no effort at all, I was pulled along the path to Bernard Beach, sunk my hands into the soil alongside Joseph in the garden, and realized over and again that there will never be enough time with the ones we love.

Readers will be drawn in by the book’s compelling premise, stay for the author’s beautiful voice, and forever remember the life and love of Evelyn and Joseph.

Get the tissues ready as you will probably cry at least once in this book. This is a love story from falling in love through the loss of a loved one. It is also an ode to leaving close to the beach. Evelyn grew up on the beach with her brother and Joseph. They were inseparable. The story of a lifetime of marriage. The thing we give up to stay and how we wonder what if we had done something different. It is also about the end of life? If you had a terminal illness how would you chose to spend your last year? Would you make a plan to end your life or would you stay to the bitter end?

This book is the story of an enduring love and marriage. The good times as well as the challenging times. What an interesting book. It may make you think of your own life and the choices you have made. I would highly recommend reading this book.

Thank you to #NetGalley, #AmyNeff, and #ParkRow for a copy of this book.
#TheDaysILovedYouMost

"A powerful story of devotion, family, and real-life traumas. This complex novel had my heart racing and my eyes welling up." ~nerdywordyreviews

The Days I Loved You Most is one of the most realistic novels I have read in a long time. Amy Neff wrote this novel in such a wonderful and indirect way but it allowed me to step into the shoes of each individual within the story.

The storyline is based around the complete life of Joseph and Evelyn. Their love story, the ups and downs of a relationship, and the growth of their family. It is a very complex tale that shows the realities of illness, relationships, and life in general: a real heart thumper and a tear-jerker.

This novel is a great representation of life in the now, the 21st Century. It focuses on the obstacles a family can face when given a life-altering decision and the reactions and heartache it may cause to the whole family.

I was blown away by the depth and detail that Amy Neff wrote within this book. It hit my heart and mind in ways I have not felt when reading a book in quite some time.

The reality of each circumstance hit home and also opened my eyes to what people are facing behind closed doors while no one is looking. It also made me very aware of the strength a relationship and true love can hold.

Within the story, Evelyn and Joseph slip back into the past reliving their life for the reader to understand the story as a whole. The multiple points of view are showcased in varying chapters through the eyes of the main characters as well as their children. It opens the reader's eyes and mind to the different perspectives of all who share in the heartbreaking decision of Evelyn and Joseph.

The Days I Loved You Most is a deeply moving, captivating, and romantic story of the power of love. This novel will be unforgettable in my mind for years to come.

I HIGHLY recommend this novel. The Days I Loved You Most will be released on July 30, 2024.

Not many books bring me to tears- and this was one of them.
This is a heartbreaking and emotional love story (told in dual timelines) about Joseph and Evelyn; a couple that has lived together through everything. Once Evelyn faces a diagnosis, Joseph knows he can't live without her, so they make a pact to leave this earth together. This story showed the ups and downs of life, and how a life with love is worth living.

I did enjoy this story but at some parts it did get a bit slow- which for a book like this is normal. It was beautifully written but at some points it was hard to remember which characters were married to which and etc.

Big thanks to #NetGalley and Amy Neff for allowing me the opportunity to read and review prior to the release in 2024! #TheDaysILovedYouMost

First and foremost, thank you for the opportunity to read this book as an ARC and allowing me to give you my honest review of how I enjoyed and things that I was not expecting.
This Book is a tear jerker at the beginning and can cause a lot of emotions to surface throughout. I can say that I did indeed cry when Evelyn decided to state she was ill and what serious health condition was that is affecting her. I was initially shocked by Joseph at first when he came out with the "something important" he and Evelyn wanted to discuss with their three (3) children.
Living through some of the timeline myself with my own personal experience of the events that pass through the story line and also remembering growing up with the stories from my own grandparent and parents, makes most of the major events in this story very relatable.
From the beginning I knew I was expecting something similar to the Notebook. However, there were parts that I had to re-read to get a better understanding. The timeline shift that goes from current day to flashback time expanding over the last Sixty (60) years gave a great understanding in the life of the main characters and the way Joseph and Evelyn loved each other. The Chapter point of views from the children also filled in the emotional support of the upcoming ending the family was to experience and of their past and days together.
For the most part the reading was easy going and flowed great, but like I stated I did have to re-read part cause the notation of time was missing in parts. For example, some paragraphs, I could not tell if it was hours/days/weeks/ or months that slide by from the previous paragraph in the chapter. The amount of coverage as well in the tragedy and everyday life experiences that is told throughout the story paints the life of this family well with the struggles they went through and the love they shared in and out of grief.
Overall, Joseph was my favorite character. He was a simple loving man that gives his all for his family and the love he has for his wife and children. It's a kind of unending love that he does not ever question but does not force anyone to understand. Joseph to me makes this more of a love story than the Myers family life story.

Evelyn and Joseph’s love began as so many love stories do. They were next door neighbors who fell in love as teens in the 1940’s and built a life together. They have a love that is undeniable and has endured for 60 years. But well into their 70’s Evelyn get a diagnosis that tells her she doesn’t have much time life. Joseph having lived his whole life loving Evelyn can’t imagine a life without her. So, they decide that they won’t wait for them to be ripped apart by illness. In one years time they decide that they will end their lives together.

The hardest part is telling their 3 adult children and collection of grandchildren their plan and then following through with it. 🥹 As the months past and the date for their decided death nears we relive their winding love story as well as chapters from their kids perspective as they navigate their parent’s choice to end their lives in the aftermath of Evelyn’s diagnosis.

We all say that we want someone to grow old with and this story shows what 60 years (the good and the bad) of love, life, and loss looks like in painful honesty.

This book placed a microscope on all the different seasons of love. The giddy first years in love. The newlywed period. Having and raising kids. Trying to navigate your role as a spouse and parent with the dreams you’ve had for yourself. The times (sometimes months or years) where you’re just slipping away from one another and the beauty of finding each other again.

This book took its time and for once I didn’t mind it because it was like sitting down with an elder and listening to their life in brutal and beautiful honesty.

I didn’t want them to stop telling me it by the end and I was full of tears that it had to. This is a wonderful novel and it’ll undeniably leave a little bit of Evelyn and Joseph with you.

Thank you Netgalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for the ARC! The book will be out on July 30 2024.

#TheDaysILovedYouMost #NetGalley

Amy Neff brings it with The Days I Loved You Most. I am unable to remember the last time a story has touched me like this. So beautifully written, be ready to experience all of your emotions. Highly recommended.
#TheDaysILovedYouMost #NetGalley

Can we give 6 stars!!
The Days I Loved You Most was a fabulous story! Joseph and Evelyn were childhood friends and in 1941 they realized they were in love. Did they have a perfect marriage and do everything perfectly absolutely not! They very definitely had more than their share of ups and downs but the unfaltering love they had for each other kept them together for their whole life.
Evelyn has received a tragic diagnosis and they decided that they didn’t want to live without each other. They gathered their 3 children together to tell them that in 1 years time they were going to end their lives together.
They both relived their past lives and each told the story of their love for each other and the love of each of the three children they had together.
What a beautiful well written story that definitely makes you have a handful of tissues.
Thank you NetGalley for the chance of Arc edition.

Wow. I don’t know that I would have the right words to describe just how beautiful this story was. I never expected to be so engulfed in this book. Such a deep-rooted book, nothing like I’ve ever read before. I couldn’t put this down. My heart just about couldn’t take it. 🥹

Thank you a million times over to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for the absolute honour to get my hands on an ARC of this book.

I loved this book, a must read! The characters were real and likable. I found myself drawn into Joseph and Evelyn’s lives and was genuinely interested in wanting to know the story of how their lives developed..Their life ending decision had me mesmerized until the very last page . It was had thought provoking scenes that will have you thinking about this book for weeks after you finish reading.A great book club read!

Wow! The premise right from the beginning grabbed my attention and kept it all thru this novel. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and publisher for chance to read this book.
A lovely story of a couple as they start their marriage, have children, build their business and grow old together. It’s a wonderful story of the trials we all face during our lifetime.

I'm truly at a loss for how to describe this book. The tagline calls it "a love story for the ages," which is certainly true, but The Days I Loved You Most is about so much more than romantic love. Spanning more than sixty years and covering five points of view from different members of a single family, the book explores what it means to create a fulfilling life — and how to face the difficult truth that no matter how fully one lives, there will come a day when the story must end.

It's impossible to read this book without being swept up in its lush descriptions of the beautiful New England coast and its fully embodied characters, realistically flawed but wholly endearing. And the deeper you fall for Joseph, Evelyn, and their children, the more invested you'll become in the sticky ethical dilemma at the core of the book. Don't be surprised if you have to reach for another box of tissues, but I promise you'll be smiling through your tears.

It's been quite a while since a book has left me wanting more. But when I finished the very last page of THE DAYS I LOVED YOU MOST, I hated that my time with Joseph and Evelyn and their children was over. (Personally, I'd read a whole other book following their children Jane, Thomas, and Violet!)

Amy Neff does such a beautiful job showing the ups and downs of life, love, and marriage, and I adored how she wove together this poignant story of the 60-year history of a marriage and family with historical events including World War II and 9/11.

I cried at least five times as I followed Evelyn and Joseph's epic love story and decision to end their lives together after a devastating diagnosis. The book made me think of what I and other friends and family would do in the same situation. And that's what a great novel should do--put the reader in someone else's shoes for a bit and maybe even make them examine their own life. THE DAYS I LOVE YOU MOST is not only a great novel, it's truly a masterpiece full of heart, hope, beauty, and love.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

From the description of the book, I definitely got The Notebook vibes and I already knew it was gonna be a tearjerker. And I was right - I was tearing up within the first 100 pages and full on sobbing by the end (Evelyn's final letter broke me). Evelyn and Joseph are a beautiful couple with a beautiful relationship. Evelyn gets diagnosed with rapidly progressing Parkinson's and is resolved to die on her own terms before the disease progresses even further. Joseph is her loving and dedicated husband who doesn't want to live in a world without her and decides to go when she does. And so together, they decide to live for a final year. The book switches between the current timeline and the past, giving us a look at how their relationship has developed over their lives. Even when they got old, I still imagined them as they were when they were young and in their teens, and I think that was also exactly how Evelyn and Joseph still saw each other no matter what age they were at. Their relationship was a "she fell first, but he fell harder" type. I think this quote from the book embodies their relationship perfectly: "She [Evelyn] has never belonged to anyone but herself, and I [Joseph] have never belonged to anyone but her." I loved them so much and was rooting for them through the portrayals of the ups and downs of their marriage. And the ending of the book made me cry, but I thought it was perfect.

I also really appreciated getting a little bit of their children's POV and see what their reactions were to their parents telling them the news and their plans. There were also clear issues in the children's lives with their own spouses/partners, and it was nice to see how those conflicts played out over the year. I would have loved to read more from the children's POV, but I get it, this is about Evelyn and Joseph.

Overall, this was an amazing book, and I highly recommend the read. The book touches on grief and loss, love, and family - a reminder to us that time flies by - spend it with the people you love.

A love story that lasts thru the ages!
A love story that isn’t all roses and hearts. It bears it all.
A story of a couple who grew up together and had a family of their own. Who fought through the struggles and loved as hard as they could.
I recommend this book to anyone who loves a good story if you enjoyed the notebook you will enjoy this one

What a sweet love story Joseph and Evelyn let us be a part of. The type of love everyone wants- through the good times and hard times. The book brought all the emotions out. What a well written book that makes you feel all the feels!