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jbquinn's review against another edition
1.0
This book was awful. I really don't even know how to write this review because it was that bad. This book was extremely slow & monotonous. The writing was just ok, the characters made me want to gauge my eyes out, the alternating pov's didn't work at all, and the storyline was weird. I couldn't tell if the author was trying to write a romance with some church & christianity thrown in or if she was writing a christian romance with god awful sex thrown in. Either way, it didn't work. The story revolves around these 2 heroines so you get their alternating pov's. I didn't see the need in both their pov's. Both of those girls were spineless, pushovers, who got stepped on by everyone around them & didn't stick up for themselves. One of the heroines was also very overweight so I thought there was some fat shaming when it came to her character. The whole book just didn't work for me.
jillreneemanns's review against another edition
5.0
Bryn Greenwood's writing always feels familiar and real. Such an amazing storyteller!
jayne8622's review against another edition
3.0
Bryn Greenwood does not care about what you think. She tells stories that haven’t been told. And she ends them exactly the way I want her too. And I’m a weirdo. This story had some strong racial issues in it, and that’s brazen coming from a white woman author. I really felt it was an important story to tell even though I understand why some people called it “ boring” or whatever. This book reallly helped me with grey areas and taught me about “the truth”. I do strongly think it would have been beneficial to have a better editor, because it did drag in some places and there were a few spelling errors.
allenfarm's review
3.0
Solid three stars
Two women whose only connection is the church they attend have a brief intersecting of their lives, but otherwise this is two separate stories told of two separate women who aren't really all that likeable. The plot is super slow, and there's no real build up to a reveal. Just a story that plods along with one woman who is vapid until she finds one thing to care about, and another who is pretty boring until she finds one person to care about her. The "voice" of the author doesn't do anything stylistically too make the two women "sound" different. All of the characters rave about how sweet and good Olivia is, but I didn't feel any emotion from her, or from Jennifer for that matter until the end. The only likeable realistic character was Rindell. Solid three stars.
Two women whose only connection is the church they attend have a brief intersecting of their lives, but otherwise this is two separate stories told of two separate women who aren't really all that likeable. The plot is super slow, and there's no real build up to a reveal. Just a story that plods along with one woman who is vapid until she finds one thing to care about, and another who is pretty boring until she finds one person to care about her. The "voice" of the author doesn't do anything stylistically too make the two women "sound" different. All of the characters rave about how sweet and good Olivia is, but I didn't feel any emotion from her, or from Jennifer for that matter until the end. The only likeable realistic character was Rindell. Solid three stars.
ramseyhootman's review against another edition
5.0
For about half a minute, I thought this book was gonna suck. A woman obsessed with fancy shoes? Really? Ugh.
And then by the end of the first scene, I was practically in tears. Rarely does a book affect me that much, and the end of that first scene is just the beginning of a story I could not put down until I had finished. I didn't even want anyone to talk to me while I was reading it. Just shut up, everyone, because these people are so real to me that my actual life seems secondary.
Greenwood's eye for detail is phenomenal, and her dialogue so pitch-perfect that I didn't even feel like I'd just read a book. I felt like I'd become intimately acquainted with two very real people - aspirations, faults, insecurities and all. I tried to start another book after I finished, and I couldn't do it. Jennifer and Olivia were people to me; I cared about them deeply, and I needed time to let them go.
This book goes up on my list of all-time favorites. I wish it was coming out before Christmas, because I want to buy it for every woman I know.
And then by the end of the first scene, I was practically in tears. Rarely does a book affect me that much, and the end of that first scene is just the beginning of a story I could not put down until I had finished. I didn't even want anyone to talk to me while I was reading it. Just shut up, everyone, because these people are so real to me that my actual life seems secondary.
Greenwood's eye for detail is phenomenal, and her dialogue so pitch-perfect that I didn't even feel like I'd just read a book. I felt like I'd become intimately acquainted with two very real people - aspirations, faults, insecurities and all. I tried to start another book after I finished, and I couldn't do it. Jennifer and Olivia were people to me; I cared about them deeply, and I needed time to let them go.
This book goes up on my list of all-time favorites. I wish it was coming out before Christmas, because I want to buy it for every woman I know.
ramseyhootman's review
5.0
For about half a minute, I thought this book was gonna suck. A woman obsessed with fancy shoes? Really? Ugh.
And then by the end of the first scene, I was practically in tears. Rarely does a book affect me that much, and the end of that first scene is just the beginning of a story I could not put down until I had finished. I didn't even want anyone to talk to me while I was reading it. Just shut up, everyone, because these people are so real to me that my actual life seems secondary.
Greenwood's eye for detail is phenomenal, and her dialogue so pitch-perfect that I didn't even feel like I'd just read a book. I felt like I'd become intimately acquainted with two very real people - aspirations, faults, insecurities and all. I tried to start another book after I finished, and I couldn't do it. Jennifer and Olivia were people to me; I cared about them deeply, and I needed time to let them go.
This book goes up on my list of all-time favorites. I wish it was coming out before Christmas, because I want to buy it for every woman I know.
And then by the end of the first scene, I was practically in tears. Rarely does a book affect me that much, and the end of that first scene is just the beginning of a story I could not put down until I had finished. I didn't even want anyone to talk to me while I was reading it. Just shut up, everyone, because these people are so real to me that my actual life seems secondary.
Greenwood's eye for detail is phenomenal, and her dialogue so pitch-perfect that I didn't even feel like I'd just read a book. I felt like I'd become intimately acquainted with two very real people - aspirations, faults, insecurities and all. I tried to start another book after I finished, and I couldn't do it. Jennifer and Olivia were people to me; I cared about them deeply, and I needed time to let them go.
This book goes up on my list of all-time favorites. I wish it was coming out before Christmas, because I want to buy it for every woman I know.
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