November was a bit of a low reading month for me, four titles completed. Being the late date of getting this out, I will skip the summary of everything else going on and just say, Cheers to Four Books Completed!
Pictures of You – Emma Grey
Evie Hudson wakes up in a hospital room remembering her life at 16, a driven high school student set to conquer the world academically with laser sharp focus. She is shocked to find out she is in fact a wealthy married woman at 29 and has survived a tragic car accident that has killed her husband Oliver. She has no memory of Oliver at all, or any part of her life after 16. This is a mesmerizing amnesia story in a multiple timeline & POV format with a bit of mystery and intrigue and there are indeed triggers galore. If you don’t care to read about unhealthy relationships, I would proceed with caution here. I was hooked and reeled in from the get go and thought this could be a 5⭐️ for me for a while and while I did enjoy it, its a solid 4⭐️. There is a bit of repetitiveness, especially in Drew’s narration that almost made me wonder why, I never did quite figure that out.
The Road to Dalton – Shannon Bowring
I loved immersing myself in the small town of Dalton, Maine, with a cast of expansive characters with problems, joys, love, loss and more. It is a bit a quick and quiet read centering around the human condition – you just don’t know what someone else is going through.
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Where the Forest Meets the River – Shannon Bowring
3.5 rounded up – There is no doubt that Bowring is a gifted writer. With that said I enjoyed book 1 more and would have preferred things to have been a bit more wrapped up here in book 2 than have to wait for a 3rd – which I can only guess is in the works with how things were left.
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The Last One at the Wedding – Jason Rekulak
Widower Frank has been estranged from his daughter Maggie for 3 years and suddenly gets a call from her telling him she is getting married and inviting him to the wedding. He is so overwhelmed with happiness of the reconnection that he is determined to make everything right with Maggie again. This causes deep tunnel vision and an inability for Frank to see what is really going on. While entertaining, I found Frank’s inability to read the writing on the wall a bit boring after a while and deterred from my enjoyment.
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