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The Secrets of Love Story Bridge by Phaedra Patrick
4.0
4 a padlock around my heart stars!!!
I fell in love with Mitchell almost immediately, and not even in my next book boyfriend way it was more of a I want to take care of this person way. He is barely holding on by a thread and can’t even see it. While this book does revolve around him trying to find the mysterious girl on the bridge, it is all about Mitchell and him discovering that he is so deeply still grieving his partner. Everything that he has done up until now may not have been healing him and his daughter like he thought it was. Poppy his daughter was a sort of light in the darkness in the book. I do have to say the only thing I didn’t like is she is to be 9 years old and I know kids mentally grow in different stages, her grammar and mannerisms were more of a 11 year old. That being said everything else about his daughter was absolutely delightful. Mitchell does evolve throughout the book and takes us on quite an emotional ride with him. Everyone he meets or interacts with seems to have a story to tell or something to teach him.
I don’t want to say to much more about to many characters, but the front desk man Carl was a delight. I could have a whole book on him and be fine with it. This whole book just flowed for me, if I wouldn’t have had work and kids I probably would’ve just sat and read the whole thing. The idea of people writing letters to one another and telling their stories is such an interesting thought. In our household we actually still write letters and send cards but I wonder how many other households do that? Do people still do Pen Pals?
Thank you to Phaedra Patrick, Park Row Books, and NetGalley for a copy in lieu of a copy for my honest review.
find more reviews at alwaysbooking.wordpress.com
I fell in love with Mitchell almost immediately, and not even in my next book boyfriend way it was more of a I want to take care of this person way. He is barely holding on by a thread and can’t even see it. While this book does revolve around him trying to find the mysterious girl on the bridge, it is all about Mitchell and him discovering that he is so deeply still grieving his partner. Everything that he has done up until now may not have been healing him and his daughter like he thought it was. Poppy his daughter was a sort of light in the darkness in the book. I do have to say the only thing I didn’t like is she is to be 9 years old and I know kids mentally grow in different stages, her grammar and mannerisms were more of a 11 year old. That being said everything else about his daughter was absolutely delightful. Mitchell does evolve throughout the book and takes us on quite an emotional ride with him. Everyone he meets or interacts with seems to have a story to tell or something to teach him.
I don’t want to say to much more about to many characters, but the front desk man Carl was a delight. I could have a whole book on him and be fine with it. This whole book just flowed for me, if I wouldn’t have had work and kids I probably would’ve just sat and read the whole thing. The idea of people writing letters to one another and telling their stories is such an interesting thought. In our household we actually still write letters and send cards but I wonder how many other households do that? Do people still do Pen Pals?
Thank you to Phaedra Patrick, Park Row Books, and NetGalley for a copy in lieu of a copy for my honest review.
find more reviews at alwaysbooking.wordpress.com