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notallwitches 's review for:
Find Me in the Rain
by Pru Schuyler
No spoilers:
This book was so cute and had so much heart. There are certain things that Pru does every single time that makes her an auto-buy author for me. She always writes characters that feel so real. I don't know if she is writing based on experience, or is just able to capture the experiences of others so well, but it feels like she just gets it. And I wish I had a better way to say it, because that's exactly what I said with the foster home storyline in Shut Up and Bite Me. But in this book she nails what it's like being a mom, being a single mom, and a working parent. Not a spoiler but a short scene detail: there is a scene where she has a parent teacher conference and while I didn't have the exact same issue as the FMC did, I literally have been in that same exact spot several times since my son has been born. I'm still traumatized from a call I got during summer camp a couple years ago, and I wish I had responded how the two leads in this book do.
This is not a spoiler, it's in the plot summary. The storyline about our FMC's mom gave me some existential dread. Mainly because now that I'm in my 30's I'm at an age where mine and my friend's parents have become chronically sick or went into hospice. I think Pru does a great job of handling that storyline with care, and I liked the room she gave the FMC to grieve the life she thought she would have with her mom even though her mom was still alive.
This book was so cute and had so much heart. There are certain things that Pru does every single time that makes her an auto-buy author for me. She always writes characters that feel so real. I don't know if she is writing based on experience, or is just able to capture the experiences of others so well, but it feels like she just gets it. And I wish I had a better way to say it, because that's exactly what I said with the foster home storyline in Shut Up and Bite Me. But in this book she nails what it's like being a mom, being a single mom, and a working parent. Not a spoiler but a short scene detail: there is a scene where she has a parent teacher conference and while I didn't have the exact same issue as the FMC did, I literally have been in that same exact spot several times since my son has been born. I'm still traumatized from a call I got during summer camp a couple years ago, and I wish I had responded how the two leads in this book do.
This is not a spoiler, it's in the plot summary. The storyline about our FMC's mom gave me some existential dread. Mainly because now that I'm in my 30's I'm at an age where mine and my friend's parents have become chronically sick or went into hospice. I think Pru does a great job of handling that storyline with care, and I liked the room she gave the FMC to grieve the life she thought she would have with her mom even though her mom was still alive.