You Were Mine By: Abbi Glines

(N) This is the ninth book in the Rosemary Beach series, after the last two books that I read in this series not being as good as I thought they would be I sincerely had my thoughts going into this book. But I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised with this book and actually enjoyed it so much to the point where I did not want to put the book down. This book made me want to begin to enjoy the Rosemary Beach series over again which says something because if I didn't like this book I just would have stopped reading the rest of the book in the series to come.
        But back to You Were Mine, in this book it was all about Tripp and Bethy. We already met Tripp in Woods and Della stories and we've known Bethy since the beginning. The summer before Tripp ran off he and Bethy had a summer fling. Leaving Bethy was the hardest thing that Tripp has ever done and it left them both broken-hearted. It was not until Bethy started dating Jace (Tripp's cousin) when she started to feel good about herself again after Tripp broke her heart. But all that changed the night when Jace drowned trying to save her life and two years later she still feels guilty about what happened that night. 
        When Tripp finally comes back to Rosemary Beach he sees Bethy the girl who owns his heart happy with his cousin Jace and it breaks his heart. With Jace gone and Bethy not the same person as she once was Tripp takes it upon himself to watch out for her. Soon Bethy is able to heal from all of the guilt she has felt over the years and is able to be around Tripp without it hurting so much anymore.
       This book switches back and forth between the past, eight years ago when Bethy and Tripp were together and the present. When I first saw the switch in time I was a little annoyed I hate when books switch time frames throughout the book but in this story it worked. Glines gave just enough at a time of the flashbacks for you to feel as though you got all that was going on but at the same time was not stuck reading about the past for fifty pages at a time. This is definitely a book in the series that I would recommend reading.