You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
4.5 stars for this book that is quite different from other stories. A beautifully written narrative about experiencing feelings and how humans react in difficult, yet real situations. From love to doubt, to grief these characters experience a gamut of emotions and how they are interact with each other is fascinating. Even with such tearful writing the story exudes hopefulness.
It reminded me so much of the TV show, “This Is Us,” that the story almost felt unoriginal. However, I am impressed how the character’s different stories were able to be seamlessly connected with one another. I also got pretty attached to the characters and some of their stories resonated with my own.
Greg Tyler has just discovered he has cancer. He has a great life, a beautiful daughter, a powerful career, and a happy marriage. When faced with all he has to lose, he realizes how much he really loves living. As Ethan Joella tells us the story of the Tyler family, he also tells us the stories of all the people whose lives they touch. Kay and Alex, a loving couple trying to put their past in perspective. Darcy Crowley, a strong business woman learning to reclaim her independence as a widow. Joella gives us so many beautiful lives and makes them intersect in the smallest ways, yet still creating a strong network of hope and love in a small Connecticut town.
I loved the book. It took me a while to form an attachment to the characters, but ultimately, I loved them. This book did exactly what it was intended to - it gave me hope. Life can get really tough, but this book reminds us why hope is so important. Hope helps us find strength in situations we never thought we could bear. This book was very difficult to read at times, heart-wrenching and emotionally draining. But the overall message of hope makes it worth powering through. Easily one of the most beautiful books I’ve read this year.
Happy pub day to this one, as it just came out today. I can’t recommend it enough.
Thanks to Ethan Joella, Scribner and Netgalley for this ARC in return for my honest review.
I loved the book. It took me a while to form an attachment to the characters, but ultimately, I loved them. This book did exactly what it was intended to - it gave me hope. Life can get really tough, but this book reminds us why hope is so important. Hope helps us find strength in situations we never thought we could bear. This book was very difficult to read at times, heart-wrenching and emotionally draining. But the overall message of hope makes it worth powering through. Easily one of the most beautiful books I’ve read this year.
Happy pub day to this one, as it just came out today. I can’t recommend it enough.
Thanks to Ethan Joella, Scribner and Netgalley for this ARC in return for my honest review.
Hope and despair. Perfect and messy. Happy and sad. So much grief. So much life.
3.4 - I have mixed feelings about this book. I really wanted to love it, but it was so depressing and the constant introducing of new characters and story lines felt overwhelming to me. I kept getting hope that a new character would bring happiness to the story, but it was trauma after trauma after trauma. That beginning said I really did love the ending and how all the characters stories were wrapped up neatly with a bow. The story was so beautifully written and that was its saving grace.
Ethan Joella does it again, the way the story lines of each character intertwine is amazing. Each character I just want to know more about. And I’m always left with happy and sad tears at the end. I can’t wait to read more books from this author!
Wow. Just wow. What a debut.
Full rtc
Review Date:
Publication Date: 11/16/2021
Full rtc
Review Date:
Publication Date: 11/16/2021
this book is an emotional doozy. it’s hard-hitting, gut-wrenching, heart-breaking. but it’s also incredibly intimate, an almost stream of consciousness exploration through grief and loss as lived by a handful of individuals connected in one small town. i really loved this one
This book was so heartwarming. I loved the way the different stories were woven together. All the characters were unique and likeable and complex, and the way Greg's story, and Ginger's, were told through the others made me really happy. I cried at the end of this one, and will be recommending it to everyone I know.