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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
Oh the feelings!
I love romance books but these… the ones that break my heart in a million pieces, makes me laugh, makes me cry and puts me back together again…this is why I read! This man, I love my husband but I might trade him in for this one!
I love romance books but these… the ones that break my heart in a million pieces, makes me laugh, makes me cry and puts me back together again…this is why I read! This man, I love my husband but I might trade him in for this one!
this review 100% reflects my love for Jewel’s writing style and being a total sucker for reverse chronology/flashback writing. I have a hard time putting these books down.
there were a few little things I found niggling at me after finishing this, but nothing that could cause my overall impression to waver.
I loved our hero, although he was not without faults. I don’t love the miscommunication trope but in this case I felt like it was justifiable and ultimately just done differently. there’s something unique about Jewel’s ability to get in a males head and create a lovable, quirky character.
what I didn’t love was our heroine and her irresolution throughout most of the book. alas, the content being dealt with is something that I don’t think most people could have any idea how they would act or feel unless they went through it.
what I loved most about this story is that it offers perspective. whether you like them or not, whether it’s how you would deal with tragedy or not, it shows a multifaceted view of human error and imperfection and heartbreak and grief.
there were a few little things I found niggling at me after finishing this, but nothing that could cause my overall impression to waver.
I loved our hero, although he was not without faults. I don’t love the miscommunication trope but in this case I felt like it was justifiable and ultimately just done differently. there’s something unique about Jewel’s ability to get in a males head and create a lovable, quirky character.
what I didn’t love was our heroine and her irresolution throughout most of the book. alas, the content being dealt with is something that I don’t think most people could have any idea how they would act or feel unless they went through it.
what I loved most about this story is that it offers perspective. whether you like them or not, whether it’s how you would deal with tragedy or not, it shows a multifaceted view of human error and imperfection and heartbreak and grief.
Rated 4.5 Stars
It’s a fact that Jewel E. Ann’s books always elicit an emotional response in me. However, I never which emotion or emotions will be affected. For Lucy didn’t make me cry but it made me incredibly sad. It’s a beautiful story but prepare yourselves to have your heartstrings tugged on. Prepare yourselves to fall in love with these characters. Prepare yourselves to devour this book. But most of all prepare yourselves for a great story that will not only make you feel but also think. I loved it and definitely recommend it.
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It’s a fact that Jewel E. Ann’s books always elicit an emotional response in me. However, I never which emotion or emotions will be affected. For Lucy didn’t make me cry but it made me incredibly sad. It’s a beautiful story but prepare yourselves to have your heartstrings tugged on. Prepare yourselves to fall in love with these characters. Prepare yourselves to devour this book. But most of all prepare yourselves for a great story that will not only make you feel but also think. I loved it and definitely recommend it.
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I'm giving it 4 stars because I love Jewel E Ann writing and book was really good, so I don't want for the average rating to suffer because of my strong dislike of a particular character and the situations their actions create. If I would write a full review right now it would be a fuming rant for sure. Every review I checked so far mentioned tears and tissues, well sure there is a really heartbreaking part to the storyline, but my me the main feeling the story generated was pissed of all to hell!!! It probably shows that I'm the the eternal romantic type.
Overall Grade: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
By all accounts, Jewel E. Ann’s For Lucy is a quintessential JEA book. With its reticent hero, a storyline that points to the tip of the iceberg for much of its story without readily unveiling the entire iceberg, and a twist that leaves you emotionally drained and overwhelmed, For Lucy is everything you adore about Jewel E. Ann.
As is the case with any of her books, the requirement for For Lucy should be a tissue box. In fact, I’m thinking she needs a cross-promotion with Kleenex. An emotionally wrought story that reveals itself incrementally, moving seamlessly between the past and present, this book feels like an emotional juggernaut for her. It will be easy to dislike the heroine of For Lucy because her hero, Emmett, shows a capacity for love beyond imagination. He is the definition of unconditional love in the way that he loves his heroine, Tatum, and his daughter, Lucy. But don’t be fooled, though. As you read this book, you must remember that it’s a singular point of view, more specifically Emmett’s. This automatically makes him an unreliable narrator. Therefore it’s impossible to fully “see” Tatum because we don’t get the fullness of her characterization beyond any kind of light other than the one that Emmett shines over her. There will be moments in For Lucy when you don’t like her. But remind yourself that you can’t know Tatum’s feelings, motivations, and complete thoughts without her point of view, and you won’t get it in this story.
With that, what is most profound about For Lucy is Jewel E. Ann’s dual message about love and forgiveness. I felt challenged by Ann’s insistence at looking at the scope of love and forgiveness as they are intertwined in this story. Through the vessel of Tatum and Emmett’s journey, you’ll feel the slipperiness of love: how it can be diminished or incapacitated by the actions of others. And, honestly, it feels a bit ugly in your soul when you realize that this is a part of the human condition. This is Jewel E. Ann’s genius in For Lucy. She asks you to consider the depth of your love for another person and its limitations.
Even more, there is a decided insistence in looking at the love of a parent. Which is a deeper love - the love for a child or the love for a spouse? As wave after wave of past memories adds to Emmett’s journey, you see his almost inhuman capacity to love another flawed being, and it cuts at you. It’s in this where you, the reader, struggle to like Tatum. Yet, instead of looking at her with a growing disdain, Jewel E. Ann is asking us to look inward to question ourselves by placing ourselves in Emmett and Tatum’s shoes. In that struggle, you will or should find your own truths about your capacity to love others in the face of the failings of humanity. I think what you find at the end of For Lucy is a better understanding of one’s ability to forgive, move on, and love another through it all.
And in true Jewel E. Ann fashion, she writes an ending that reads as both didactic and entertaining. She brings you the perfect ending for Tatum, Emmett, and Lucy, and she reminds you in her quiet ways that the cut of trauma can find its salve with love and forgiveness.
One suggestion: Be sure to have a box of tissue near you. Besides this being a 5-star read, For Lucy is a four-hanky story. Once again, Jewel E. Ann finds a space to inhabit interrogating the human condition, and she leaves you changed.
By all accounts, Jewel E. Ann’s For Lucy is a quintessential JEA book. With its reticent hero, a storyline that points to the tip of the iceberg for much of its story without readily unveiling the entire iceberg, and a twist that leaves you emotionally drained and overwhelmed, For Lucy is everything you adore about Jewel E. Ann.
As is the case with any of her books, the requirement for For Lucy should be a tissue box. In fact, I’m thinking she needs a cross-promotion with Kleenex. An emotionally wrought story that reveals itself incrementally, moving seamlessly between the past and present, this book feels like an emotional juggernaut for her. It will be easy to dislike the heroine of For Lucy because her hero, Emmett, shows a capacity for love beyond imagination. He is the definition of unconditional love in the way that he loves his heroine, Tatum, and his daughter, Lucy. But don’t be fooled, though. As you read this book, you must remember that it’s a singular point of view, more specifically Emmett’s. This automatically makes him an unreliable narrator. Therefore it’s impossible to fully “see” Tatum because we don’t get the fullness of her characterization beyond any kind of light other than the one that Emmett shines over her. There will be moments in For Lucy when you don’t like her. But remind yourself that you can’t know Tatum’s feelings, motivations, and complete thoughts without her point of view, and you won’t get it in this story.
With that, what is most profound about For Lucy is Jewel E. Ann’s dual message about love and forgiveness. I felt challenged by Ann’s insistence at looking at the scope of love and forgiveness as they are intertwined in this story. Through the vessel of Tatum and Emmett’s journey, you’ll feel the slipperiness of love: how it can be diminished or incapacitated by the actions of others. And, honestly, it feels a bit ugly in your soul when you realize that this is a part of the human condition. This is Jewel E. Ann’s genius in For Lucy. She asks you to consider the depth of your love for another person and its limitations.
Even more, there is a decided insistence in looking at the love of a parent. Which is a deeper love - the love for a child or the love for a spouse? As wave after wave of past memories adds to Emmett’s journey, you see his almost inhuman capacity to love another flawed being, and it cuts at you. It’s in this where you, the reader, struggle to like Tatum. Yet, instead of looking at her with a growing disdain, Jewel E. Ann is asking us to look inward to question ourselves by placing ourselves in Emmett and Tatum’s shoes. In that struggle, you will or should find your own truths about your capacity to love others in the face of the failings of humanity. I think what you find at the end of For Lucy is a better understanding of one’s ability to forgive, move on, and love another through it all.
And in true Jewel E. Ann fashion, she writes an ending that reads as both didactic and entertaining. She brings you the perfect ending for Tatum, Emmett, and Lucy, and she reminds you in her quiet ways that the cut of trauma can find its salve with love and forgiveness.
One suggestion: Be sure to have a box of tissue near you. Besides this being a 5-star read, For Lucy is a four-hanky story. Once again, Jewel E. Ann finds a space to inhabit interrogating the human condition, and she leaves you changed.
Overall Grade: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
By all accounts, Jewel E. Ann’s For Lucy is a quintessential JEA book. With its reticent hero, a storyline that points to the tip of the iceberg for much of its story without readily unveiling the entire iceberg, and a twist that leaves you emotionally drained and overwhelmed, For Lucy is everything you adore about Jewel E. Ann.
As is the case with any of her books, the requirement for For Lucy should be a tissue box. In fact, I’m thinking she needs a cross-promotion with Kleenex. An emotionally wrought story that reveals itself incrementally, moving seamlessly between the past and present, this book feels like an emotional juggernaut for her. It will be easy to dislike the heroine of For Lucy because her hero, Emmett, shows a capacity for love beyond imagination. He is the definition of unconditional love in the way that he loves his heroine, Tatum, and his daughter, Lucy. But don’t be fooled, though. As you read this book, you must remember that it’s a singular point of view, more specifically Emmett’s. This automatically makes him an unreliable narrator. Therefore it’s impossible to fully “see” Tatum because we don’t get the fullness of her characterization beyond any kind of light other than the one that Emmett shines over her. There will be moments in For Lucy when you don’t like her. But remind yourself that you can’t know Tatum’s feelings, motivations, and complete thoughts without her point of view, and you won’t get it in this story.
With that, what is most profound about For Lucy is Jewel E. Ann’s dual message about love and forgiveness. I felt challenged by Ann’s insistence at looking at the scope of love and forgiveness as they are intertwined in this story. Through the vessel of Tatum and Emmett’s journey, you’ll feel the slipperiness of love: how it can be diminished or incapacitated by the actions of others. And, honestly, it feels a bit ugly in your soul when you realize that this is a part of the human condition. This is Jewel E. Ann’s genius in For Lucy. She asks you to consider the depth of your love for another person and its limitations.
Even more, there is a decided insistence in looking at the love of a parent. Which is a deeper love - the love for a child or the love for a spouse? As wave after wave of past memories adds to Emmett’s journey, you see his almost inhuman capacity to love another flawed being, and it cuts at you. It’s in this where you, the reader, struggle to like Tatum. Yet, instead of looking at her with a growing disdain, Jewel E. Ann is asking us to look inward to question ourselves by placing ourselves in Emmett and Tatum’s shoes. In that struggle, you will or should find your own truths about your capacity to love others in the face of the failings of humanity. I think what you find at the end of For Lucy is a better understanding of one’s ability to forgive, move on, and love another through it all.
And in true Jewel E. Ann fashion, she writes an ending that reads as both didactic and entertaining. She brings you the perfect ending for Tatum, Emmett, and Lucy, and she reminds you in her quiet ways that the cut of trauma can find its salve with love and forgiveness.
One suggestion: Be sure to have a box of tissue near you. Besides this being a 5-star read, For Lucy is a four-hanky story. Once again, Jewel E. Ann finds a space to inhabit interrogating the human condition, and she leaves you changed.
By all accounts, Jewel E. Ann’s For Lucy is a quintessential JEA book. With its reticent hero, a storyline that points to the tip of the iceberg for much of its story without readily unveiling the entire iceberg, and a twist that leaves you emotionally drained and overwhelmed, For Lucy is everything you adore about Jewel E. Ann.
As is the case with any of her books, the requirement for For Lucy should be a tissue box. In fact, I’m thinking she needs a cross-promotion with Kleenex. An emotionally wrought story that reveals itself incrementally, moving seamlessly between the past and present, this book feels like an emotional juggernaut for her. It will be easy to dislike the heroine of For Lucy because her hero, Emmett, shows a capacity for love beyond imagination. He is the definition of unconditional love in the way that he loves his heroine, Tatum, and his daughter, Lucy. But don’t be fooled, though. As you read this book, you must remember that it’s a singular point of view, more specifically Emmett’s. This automatically makes him an unreliable narrator. Therefore it’s impossible to fully “see” Tatum because we don’t get the fullness of her characterization beyond any kind of light other than the one that Emmett shines over her. There will be moments in For Lucy when you don’t like her. But remind yourself that you can’t know Tatum’s feelings, motivations, and complete thoughts without her point of view, and you won’t get it in this story.
With that, what is most profound about For Lucy is Jewel E. Ann’s dual message about love and forgiveness. I felt challenged by Ann’s insistence at looking at the scope of love and forgiveness as they are intertwined in this story. Through the vessel of Tatum and Emmett’s journey, you’ll feel the slipperiness of love: how it can be diminished or incapacitated by the actions of others. And, honestly, it feels a bit ugly in your soul when you realize that this is a part of the human condition. This is Jewel E. Ann’s genius in For Lucy. She asks you to consider the depth of your love for another person and its limitations.
Even more, there is a decided insistence in looking at the love of a parent. Which is a deeper love - the love for a child or the love for a spouse? As wave after wave of past memories adds to Emmett’s journey, you see his almost inhuman capacity to love another flawed being, and it cuts at you. It’s in this where you, the reader, struggle to like Tatum. Yet, instead of looking at her with a growing disdain, Jewel E. Ann is asking us to look inward to question ourselves by placing ourselves in Emmett and Tatum’s shoes. In that struggle, you will or should find your own truths about your capacity to love others in the face of the failings of humanity. I think what you find at the end of For Lucy is a better understanding of one’s ability to forgive, move on, and love another through it all.
And in true Jewel E. Ann fashion, she writes an ending that reads as both didactic and entertaining. She brings you the perfect ending for Tatum, Emmett, and Lucy, and she reminds you in her quiet ways that the cut of trauma can find its salve with love and forgiveness.
One suggestion: Be sure to have a box of tissue near you. Besides this being a 5-star read, For Lucy is a four-hanky story. Once again, Jewel E. Ann finds a space to inhabit interrogating the human condition, and she leaves you changed.
**ARC provided in exchange for an honest review**
"We didn’t just fall in love, we collided until our souls tangled, until we knew any attempt to live without each other would leave us crippled."
For Lucy was an emotional contemporary romance. It is a story about how a couple can't seem to go on together after a very tragic incident. Emmett has to make a very difficult decision and my heart broke for this family. His wife Tatum made him promise to always put their daughter Lucy first and that is exactly what he has done for years. This story broke my heart and I cried my eyes out a couple of times. I absolutely loved the father/daughter relationship between Emmett and Lucy. I also enjoyed the brief flashbacks to how Emmett and Tatum met and how their relationship developed.
"She’s the air filling my suffocating lungs. I love this woman with every cell in my body."
It is told solely from Emmett's POV which made it difficult for me to connect to Tatum. I really loved Emmett and his beautiful personality. I admired his mission to protect his family even if it meant that he would be alone. It was obvious that he still loved Tatum and that she wasn't empty towards him as well. However, could she forget what happened and make a step towards a new beginning with him. I really enjoyed this second-chance contemporary romance, however, like I mentioned I really wanted a couple of chapters in Tatum's POV. I believed in Emmett's love but I couldn't completely warm up to Tatum. But overall this was a very beautiful contemporary romance.
"We didn’t just fall in love, we collided until our souls tangled, until we knew any attempt to live without each other would leave us crippled."
For Lucy was an emotional contemporary romance. It is a story about how a couple can't seem to go on together after a very tragic incident. Emmett has to make a very difficult decision and my heart broke for this family. His wife Tatum made him promise to always put their daughter Lucy first and that is exactly what he has done for years. This story broke my heart and I cried my eyes out a couple of times. I absolutely loved the father/daughter relationship between Emmett and Lucy. I also enjoyed the brief flashbacks to how Emmett and Tatum met and how their relationship developed.
"She’s the air filling my suffocating lungs. I love this woman with every cell in my body."
It is told solely from Emmett's POV which made it difficult for me to connect to Tatum. I really loved Emmett and his beautiful personality. I admired his mission to protect his family even if it meant that he would be alone. It was obvious that he still loved Tatum and that she wasn't empty towards him as well. However, could she forget what happened and make a step towards a new beginning with him. I really enjoyed this second-chance contemporary romance, however, like I mentioned I really wanted a couple of chapters in Tatum's POV. I believed in Emmett's love but I couldn't completely warm up to Tatum. But overall this was a very beautiful contemporary romance.
This was so heartbreaking to listen to. It was like watching a car crash and not being able to look away. You could feel the absolute grief that these characters were feeling.. it was like I was grieving too. The narrator, Connor, did an amazing job with this. The story is mainly told from Emmett’s perspective, so it made sense to only have Connor narrate. Usually I like 2 narrators, but this worked for me.
5/5⭐️ 1.5/5
5/5⭐️ 1.5/5
This really touched me to the core because i know what losing someone means. Im going through the same thong. I haven't lost anyone yet but anything can happen and thats what scares me. How does one go on living. How does a marriage service? I loved Emmett so much. I think no one can loves this selflessly like him. He is a rare diamond. I'm sill skeptical of Tatum. I understood her situation. If i was in her place, i might have reacted the same but five years???!!! and so cruel to not allowing her kid to meet the father. I wished after fe w years she might have realized it was wrong. At no point in five years did she think that what she was going through her husband would have gone through it worse and alone?? I guess this is a specialty of Jewel E Ann. she doesn't sugarcoat realities and people. That's what made it perfect. If this didn't have a happy ending i would have been much happy.