From a 1980's Southern California college campus and a devastating first love to present day New York City, Searching for Moore explores how technology has eradicated the divide between our past and our present, and asks whether you would give up everything to reconnect with The One in a single keystroke?

Julie A. Richman

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Continuing the fight for their happily ever after that began in Searching for Moore, Schooner Moore and Mia Silver struggle to overcome the ghosts and baggage they accumulated during their time apart. 

Exploring the missing 24 years when they were separated, Moore to Lose follows Mia's journey from heartbroken teen to kickass businesswoman to her emotional reunion with Schooner and the exploration of the love that was ripped from them.

But is their love really strong enough to overcome the damage of those missing 24 years or will they continue to be ripped apart by pasts that can't be changed?

I didn’t think Searching for Moore could be topped. Even with the cliffhanger, it was a perfect second chance love story. But now? Now I love the direction Mia and Schooner’s story has taken with Moore to Lose.

This is the missing 24 years, mostly from Mia’s POV. We see what she went through trying to move past the pain of leaving Schooner and California. Back in New York, starting her sophomore year at a new college, making new friends and trying to put her past behind, Mia is never quite able to put it completely out of her mind. Her 24 years were not as cut and dry as Schooner’s may have been. But through it all, Seth and Charles are right there next to her. I didn’t cry during Searching for Moore, but watching Mia during those years brought me to tears, at one point violently so (even though I saw that particular event coming and had predicted exactly that scene). Her journey makes knowing that she does eventually find Schooner again all that much sweeter. She definitely deserves to get a happily ever after at some point here!

The one thing that she would give up everything for was not a fantasy and she knew that. She had tasted it. She had savored it. She had consumed it. She had been consumed by it.

The few scenes we get of Schooner during those lost years cut deep. They were so perfectly placed, I was left feeling haunted by him more than just through Mia’s own memories. We know he married CJ and was left wondering why Mia left so suddenly, but the number of times he thinks of her over the years, and his reaction to one particular event show us just how deeply he felt for her in their short time together. (And his reaction did not help slow the flow of my tears. at. all.)

He knew, even as he verbalized it, that the ghost of Mia Silver was something he never, ever wanted to exorcise, for it he let it haunt him for the rest of his days, she would always be with him.

The time that passes in the present day scenes does not cover a lot of time, but what is there is a great, if painful, passage of time for Mia and Schooner and sets up Moore than Forever so perfectly. It would have been too much to ask for things to be rose colored for them despite our best wishes. But where we are left is a perfect breaking point and I am very much looking forward to what comes about for Schooner, particularly. 

This was such a perfect middle of a trilogy I am having a hard time finding the words. I fell in love with both Mia and Schooner even more than I already had, despite wondering before starting if it could even live up to my love for the first book.

Thanks to Julie A. Richman for providing me with an arc copy in return for my honest review.