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A Love Letter to Whiskey by Kandi Steiner

44 reviews

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I'm unsure if I could write out a well thought review, one this book deserves... So I'll just say this for now {and try to remember to come back and put my thoughts down properly because this book deserves it} --- this book is so raw and so real.. it feels like a story that really happened to someone, and funny enough, in a lot of ways, it did... Too many similarities between my best friend Jason and I growing up (we have been best friends since 6th grade) and although we didn't get the HEA that I've dreamed of since then, it was a sweet reminder of the friendship and love we used to have for one another before he married his person. I'll never not be in love with that man and I only pray that his wife sees what an amazing man he is and never hurts him... Anyways, yeah, all the feels in this one. It may be frustrating and it may hurt for most of it, but it is exactly how a lot of us experienced our first love. It's not an easy read but it's absolutely worth it. I'm so thankful she added in Jamie's POV so we could see what he was thinking during everything going on. The amount of tabs I have in this book is absolutely insane lol This will absolutely always be one of my favorite romance books I've ever read but it's also why I don't read a lot of romance because I've never experienced love like in the books and it's all I've ever dreamed of and I'm just hoping, even at 38, my chance at a real and raw true love is still out there waiting for me šŸ’€

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emotional sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The story dragged on and it felt like it took even longer due to the unlikable main characters. It was a beautifully written book, but it was just so overshadowed with the way I really disliked them both and the choices they made. I wasn’t rooting for them. Cute ending, though!

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emotional hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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iaana's review

4.0
challenging emotional sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book made me hate FMC and understand her in the same sentence. Emotional roller coaster 

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medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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jenaedlaw's review

5.0
emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book had me in a choke hold. I read it over a weekend and couldn't stop thinking about it for weeks after. I still talk about this one with my friends who have also read it.

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jsslch272's review

5.0
emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Nothing I can say will do this book justice.
It genuinely ripped my heart out. I have never read a book that genuinely felt so heart-wrenching.
The narrator of the audiobook said it best:

ā€œI remember leaving the booth every day feeling totally gutted in the best way possible. It was an experience of putting all my emotions on the table, because that's what Whiskey asked of me. Some books reach deep inside you and demand you pay attention. They grab hold of you and don't let you go. Not until you've consumed every last drop.ā€

ā€œI love books that delve deep into the human experience, that make your gut churn because you know they're talking about something so real that it scares you.ā€

If you have ever experienced a twin flame, then this book will impact you in a way you never imagined. As someone who has experienced the kind of love that this book talks about, it brought out emotions in me that I thought I’d buried. It made me angry, it made me smile, laugh, cry, but most of all it made me hopeful.

I know a lot of reviews slate this book for the cheating, but unfortunately I understand that with a connection like the one in this book - it sometimes happens (but does not make it ok).

This book will be one that will stay with me for a long time, because even the thought of it leaves a heavy feeling in my chest in the best way.

Please, do yourself a favour if you have ever felt like you met ā€œthe right person at the wrong timeā€, and read this book.



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dark emotional

The cheating was very much a no go for me but unfortunately was too invested to stop reading…

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I have been putting this book off for the longest because I was afraid of what it would do to me, and my guy was right! It had me on a rollercoaster of emotions.

A Love Letter to Whiskey is beautiful, it’s heartbreaking, it’s hard to read at times, it’s hard to stop at others, and it’s one that stays with you long after it’s done. It felt like more than just a book, like these characters are truly out there somewhere.

B and Jamie’s love story is messy and painful, but just feels so real. There’s so much deep love between them, so much passion they try so hard to restrain and fail miserably at because they’re so weak when it comes to each other. There were so many missed opportunities and bad choices that you just want to shake the characters. I actually had to stop listening to the audiobook during B’s parts because it was too easy to hate her if I detached myself from it, I had to read her with my own voice. And she is so angry at herself as she details her story that you know she’s aware of all her mistakes. Reading Jamie’s side of the story was healing though, and it was then hard to hate her when he reminds you that he was also at fault. And he loves her so much, and she makes him happy that you have to let it go and see her through his loving eyes. 

This is the kind of story where the real villain is life that gets in the way. But B and Jamie’s love is so strong it just keeps resurfacing until they finally get their HEA. It is a grueling 10 year journey to get there, but it does indeed happen and it’s so worth it! I cried a lot with this book, and some of my biggest tears may have been at the end at finally seeing them getting to be happy together.

It may sound crazy after this long winded review basically detailing all the ways in which this book has hurt me, to say that I absolutely recommend it and is an easy 5 star ā­ļø read, but that’s the truth. I read to feel and get lost in a story and this book completely swept me away! It’s going on my list of favorites now.

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