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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
It’s a sweet book but it did drag on in the last portion of the book.
Two Lives
Two Loves
One Impossible Choice
Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They'd been together for more than a decade and Lydia thought there love was indestructible. She was wrong, as her 28th birthday Freddie died in a car accident.
So now it's just Lydia and all she wants is to hide inside and sob until her eyes fall out. Yet she knows that Freddie would want her to live fully and happily even if he wasn't there beside her. Enlisting the help of her sister Elle and Freddie's best friend Jonah she takes those first tentative steps into the world and perhaps even love.
But then something happens that gives her a chance to be with Freddie again, a life where none of the tragic events of the past have happened. Lydia is pulled again and again through the doorway to her past, living two lives impossibly at once. There is an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie still lives and someone in her real life who wants her to stay.
A beautiful story of a women grieving and the time taken to move forward after the impossible happens. Lydia's feelings and motions seemed so honest from being a shell of herself to floating back into the past and into the present. While I haven't been in her shoes, I felt for her and routed for her to keep putting one foot in front of the other. I wanted her to heal, to move forward.
Silver has a way of telling a beautiful romance with so much more with it, in this case grief. I love that her two novels span time so you can really see the growth of the characters. Lydia when I started wasn't the same Lydia I met at the end. Also with all that's going on in the world right now it was just the right book that came to me at just the right time. Loved this one as I did her first.
Two Loves
One Impossible Choice
Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They'd been together for more than a decade and Lydia thought there love was indestructible. She was wrong, as her 28th birthday Freddie died in a car accident.
So now it's just Lydia and all she wants is to hide inside and sob until her eyes fall out. Yet she knows that Freddie would want her to live fully and happily even if he wasn't there beside her. Enlisting the help of her sister Elle and Freddie's best friend Jonah she takes those first tentative steps into the world and perhaps even love.
But then something happens that gives her a chance to be with Freddie again, a life where none of the tragic events of the past have happened. Lydia is pulled again and again through the doorway to her past, living two lives impossibly at once. There is an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie still lives and someone in her real life who wants her to stay.
A beautiful story of a women grieving and the time taken to move forward after the impossible happens. Lydia's feelings and motions seemed so honest from being a shell of herself to floating back into the past and into the present. While I haven't been in her shoes, I felt for her and routed for her to keep putting one foot in front of the other. I wanted her to heal, to move forward.
Silver has a way of telling a beautiful romance with so much more with it, in this case grief. I love that her two novels span time so you can really see the growth of the characters. Lydia when I started wasn't the same Lydia I met at the end. Also with all that's going on in the world right now it was just the right book that came to me at just the right time. Loved this one as I did her first.
I would probably give this 2 1/2 stars. I liked Lydia's story and her family plus her friendship with Jonah. However, the "two lives" part didn't make sense and wasn't ever really explained.
I could have done with less of the dream chapters. It started to drag on in the middle, but ended up sobbing the last chapter. I love sappy endings though, if you don’t, this is definitely not a book you’ll enjoy.
I'm not quite sure how to rate this book, but I think I'm going with 3.5 or 4⭐ I enjoyed it but it wasn't a page-turner. It also really didn't go where I expected it to based on the description, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I kind of liked that it wasn't formulaic and predictable like many romances are.
The plot points in the end of the book kind of snuck up on me, and I imagine they did for Lydia too. Interesting parallel. I'll have to think about this one more.
The plot points in the end of the book kind of snuck up on me, and I imagine they did for Lydia too. Interesting parallel. I'll have to think about this one more.
I have to say 3.5 rounding up closer to 4. It took a little while to get going. The back and forth was a bit tedious and I wondered where this was going. I think the way the author explained why there was a change in her 'other' life was convenient..I didn't really see or feel the change, and to read it made it then seem like "oh, I see." Perhaps I couldn't see her character growth until the end. There were some really poignant moments and definitely heart wrenching parts that were so well written, which made me rate it higher.
This book took me through so many emotions. A few times I got really frustrated with her and she kept going back and forth between sleep and reality, but I could feel the author setting the tone. I cried when she said her final goodbye but it was the perfect time. I don’t like the fact that her mom and sister weren’t as supporting of her going to Croatia. She needed that time away. I didn’t expect to love this book so much, but I’m glad I did.
I was looking for a light read and accidentally started this one. Not light in my opinion, but so glad I stumbled onto it. One that I'll think about for a long time to come.
Josie Silver’s One Day in December was so gripping and fun and heartbreaking all at the same time. I had very high hopes for The Two Lives of Lydia Bird and was not disappointed. I’m so excited for the next book which possibly promises to be set on a island? Can’t wait.