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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Will Emerson is a young man living in Bath and working as radio engineer during world war 2. He is happily married to Elsa Klein until the day tragedy strikes and their home is bombed. Recovering in hospital Will asks about Elsa but no one knows who he is talking about. Many years later Laura is working as a care assistant and is asked to care for an elderly man in his home. The man appears to be suffering from dementia and keeps insisting he was once married and his wife vanished.
This story is told over duel timelines and I loved the way it panned out. This book started out great for me and I loved the story and the characters especially Will. I was totally loving the whole story but about three quarters way through I thought the story was beginning to drag a bit and I just wanted to get to the end. Overall though a good and enjoyable read 3.5⭐️
This story is told over duel timelines and I loved the way it panned out. This book started out great for me and I loved the story and the characters especially Will. I was totally loving the whole story but about three quarters way through I thought the story was beginning to drag a bit and I just wanted to get to the end. Overall though a good and enjoyable read 3.5⭐️
This is the second book I read by this author and I loved both.
This is another excellent story, poignant and gripping.
I loved the well thought characters and felt for them.
The author is a talented storyteller and the plot kept me hooked.
Strongly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine
This is another excellent story, poignant and gripping.
I loved the well thought characters and felt for them.
The author is a talented storyteller and the plot kept me hooked.
Strongly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
This was a slow story for me to read when I’m in a bit of a reading slump. I would have predicted a lower rating throughout the book due, however the ending which included the more complex exploration of space and time including people’s differing memories and experiences, as well as the longer term implications of those experiences, tied the storylines together reasonably well. I did not enjoy the intersection of the radios, I found it confusing and non believable that Elsa was somehow communicating with Will all that time? How did she know what had happened and if she knew why didn’t she fix it in the same way he did? I also found the fix to the problem being “just blow yourself up with the same bomb again” hard to believe. Overall an okay read, but not something I’ll be recommending
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was a really interesting book and I loved the characters. The ending was a bit quick after such good momentum - hence 4 stars rather than 5. I would definitely recommend this to friends.
In the midst of the Second World War Will and Elsa meet and fall in love. However one fateful night a bomb explodes outside their house and when Will wakes up in hospital his first instinct to ask after his wife. However the hospital have no-one of that name and there is no record of him ever being married.
Present day and Laura had lost her way. Back home living with her mum is not where she thought be at her age. Maybe a new job as a carer will give her a purpose again. Having Will to look after certainly takes her mind off her own worries.
This is Keith Stuart's third novel and after loving the first two I was eager to start this one and I am delighted that The Frequency of Us has been picked up by Between the Covers book club. Boy made of Blocks is one of my all time favourites and in both of his previous books Stuart has pulled at the heartstrings with his intricately beautiful father and child relationships. This book is completely different in that the story follows two strangers linked through fate and I did take both Laura and Will into my heart and the way their relationship grew did touch me. However where this book fell down for me was the story as for the most part I had no idea what was going on and this meant that the further I progressed the connection I felt previously weakened. Then by the time things came together I felt it was too late and I had little interest in the pieces coming together. Maybe I had too high expectations for this book and I know authors can't keep just writing the same style all the time but this one was too out there for me.
Present day and Laura had lost her way. Back home living with her mum is not where she thought be at her age. Maybe a new job as a carer will give her a purpose again. Having Will to look after certainly takes her mind off her own worries.
This is Keith Stuart's third novel and after loving the first two I was eager to start this one and I am delighted that The Frequency of Us has been picked up by Between the Covers book club. Boy made of Blocks is one of my all time favourites and in both of his previous books Stuart has pulled at the heartstrings with his intricately beautiful father and child relationships. This book is completely different in that the story follows two strangers linked through fate and I did take both Laura and Will into my heart and the way their relationship grew did touch me. However where this book fell down for me was the story as for the most part I had no idea what was going on and this meant that the further I progressed the connection I felt previously weakened. Then by the time things came together I felt it was too late and I had little interest in the pieces coming together. Maybe I had too high expectations for this book and I know authors can't keep just writing the same style all the time but this one was too out there for me.
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Disclaimer: An audiobook ARC was provided by The Publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The Thoughts, opinions & feelings expressed in the review are therefore, my own.
There are books that are at times an absolute joy to listen on the audiobook format!
The Frequency of Us was one such book for me - told in dual PoV; past and present - it was an intriguing plot with captivating characters until the climax.
We get alternate timelines - One of the past of Will, whose memories of WWII is somehow very different from what others around him know to be true, especially when it comes to his wife.
Laura, in her 20s, is trying to get back on her feet, after a traumatic experience- and her path crosses with that of Will’s; now in his 80s.
Laura seems to be the only person who seems to believe Will’s version of his past - and it takes her on a quest to understand the small anomalies that seems to crop out.
b>Like I said at the start, I so enjoyed the audiobook of this book until the climax - the climax was over the top and the introduction of a character at this time somehow made the whole plot seem.. off.
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