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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
No star rating here because I didn’t get very far. Just wasn’t digging the narrator and had lots of other books on my TBR beating down the door.
Couldn’t finish bc the FMC was cringe and ultimately I couldn’t root for her.
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Sometimes I found the jumps in time hard to follow, especially early on. But it was a sweet and beautiful love story with quite a lot of depth.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
Loved the idea of this book - Maggie made a promise to marry two different men when they turned 35 if they were still single. And they both came back into her life about the same, but there were so many complications.
I listened to the audio and I missed most of the chapter titles that told her age, so I got really confused where we were at in the timeline. I feel like I would (for this reason) recommend print over audio for this book.
This book is pretty spicy throughout 🌶️ 🌶️🌶️ maybe out of 5. It also used the g-damn phrase a lot, which I am not a fan of. It must be her favorite cuss word.
“My father’s absence was different, and the ache shaped me. I was strikingly aware of the gap between what my father gave me and what a daughter deserved. So, I let hope fill in the middle. Hope was my drug of choice. It dulled a painful, fatherless reality.” Ch 17
“Hope’s always the last friend to leave.” Ch 18, 19, 20, 56
“Thankfully, the outside breeze blew the lust out of my lungs…” ch 20
“It’s not the heartbreak that defines who we are, it’s how we react to it.” Ch 26
“You… will never be 35 alone…” Ch 26
“ I was alive with the ability to rise and grow out of my own trauma. I refused to be stuck in a moment when I had a lifetime ahead of me.” Ch 35
I listened to the audio and I missed most of the chapter titles that told her age, so I got really confused where we were at in the timeline. I feel like I would (for this reason) recommend print over audio for this book.
This book is pretty spicy throughout 🌶️ 🌶️🌶️ maybe out of 5. It also used the g-damn phrase a lot, which I am not a fan of. It must be her favorite cuss word.
“My father’s absence was different, and the ache shaped me. I was strikingly aware of the gap between what my father gave me and what a daughter deserved. So, I let hope fill in the middle. Hope was my drug of choice. It dulled a painful, fatherless reality.” Ch 17
“Hope’s always the last friend to leave.” Ch 18, 19, 20, 56
“Thankfully, the outside breeze blew the lust out of my lungs…” ch 20
“It’s not the heartbreak that defines who we are, it’s how we react to it.” Ch 26
“You… will never be 35 alone…” Ch 26
“ I was alive with the ability to rise and grow out of my own trauma. I refused to be stuck in a moment when I had a lifetime ahead of me.” Ch 35
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
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
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
lighthearted
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
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
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
A beautiful and devastating story about lost opportunities, wrong timing, regret, hope, changing dreams, and lost love. Didn't expect it to hit so hard but Greenberg did a great job layering the situational complexities, creating very complex characters, bringing out complex and competing emotions from the reader. Complexly bittersweet. I feel proud of the main character for her choices and authenticity and loyalty to herself. Definitely ended up sobbing near the end but feel good about the actual finale
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicide
Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, Death of parent