A review by ladyk23
Just For Today by Nell Hudson

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I bought this book as an Outlander fan (the author is also an actress who appears on the show as a reoccurring character) and feel I should preface this review by saying I had no idea what it was about when I bought it or when I started to read it. I wanted to support Nell as a fan of her acting work in her new endeavour - and as a writer myself I’d want to be supported by people who know me if I ever release a book into the world, and so here we are. It became immediately clear to me that this is not the kind of story I would have ever picked for myself to read. On the surface this is a story about upper middle class young people who take lots of drugs and like to party. Not my kind of book at all. But, I’m so glad I read it, because it is so much more than that. It’s about all different kinds of love, friendship being the most important one, but also falling in love, falling out of love, loss, and all the life that happens in between. Nell’s writing style completely pulls you in, and even if you don’t particularly like the characters at first, she takes you on this completely devastating journey with them that you can’t help but feel for them by the end. I’m very excited for whatever she writes next. I’m just gutted I didn’t read the book prior to meeting her a couple of weeks ago because now I’d be able to tell her how much of a fan I am of her writing as well as her acting.