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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
This was really a wonderful read. It was a story of love, loss, and learning to love again. Reading this story, you get invested in the characters & find yourself rooting them on. I can’t wait to see what Josie Silver writes in the future - I also loved One Day in December!
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was a beautiful story about loss, love, grief, and finding yourself after losing a great love. Learning it’s ok to move on after loss and to find love again or in someone that has always been there.
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
I'm sure a lot of people will really like this, but I'm just gonna say it ... this bored the hell out of me. I think what we've learned today is that chick-lit is just NOT my thing. And I'm kinda sad I wasted my book of the month credit on this :(
I cried so much reading this novel. Lydia is awake without her fiancé and after taking the pink pills, she is able to reunite with her love as if nothing happened. It is a lighthearted romance novel with a protagonist who is moving through her own grief.
emotional
hopeful
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was as good as I could have hoped for I think, considering the plot of the story is deeply sad. I didn't enjoy the pacing of the book all that much, it was mostly very slow and I felt like the climax of the story didn't happen until the last 100 pages. Although this is my least favorite book by Josie Silver, she is still able to build dynamic characters and draw out the rawest of emotions with her expressive writing style. Despite all of the sorrow, Silver manages to shape a beautiful ending to the story, so overall I would rate this book a 3.5.
The Two Live of Lydia Bird is about Lydia learning to cope with her grief from losing her fiance and move on without him. She's been having trouble sleeping ever since he died and is prescribed sleeping pills, which she soon learns allows her to see him in her dreams every time she takes them. From then on, she uses them to see how her life would have turned out had her fiance not died and celebrate important milestones with him, but it's not long before her two lives diverge and she realizes just how much his passing has changed her from the person she was with him.
Josie Silver is a great writer and I really enjoyed this look at grief and coping in a somewhat lighthearted way. This is definitely women's fiction and not romance since the focus is Lydia's grief and character development, but it does have a happy ending even though it was not the ending that I wanted to see.
Thanks to Random House and Netgalley for my copy to review.
Content Warning:
Josie Silver is a great writer and I really enjoyed this look at grief and coping in a somewhat lighthearted way. This is definitely women's fiction and not romance since the focus is Lydia's grief and character development, but it does have a happy ending even though it was not the ending that I wanted to see.
Thanks to Random House and Netgalley for my copy to review.
Content Warning:
Spoiler
loss of a loved one via car accident, miscarriage
I loved this book! I laughed then cried over and over. Fell in love with Lydia and was hoping her and Jonah would find their way to each other. Definitely recommend reading / listening.
Honestly cried at parts of this book I was so emotionally drawn in