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mishale1 's review for:
Colton Gentry's Third Act
by Jeff Zentner
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Oh I just loved this book! It’s going on my list of favorites for this year. Just absolutely beautiful.
This is a story about second, even third, chances. It’s beautifully written, it’s thought provoking, it’s hopeful, it’s a love story, and I absolutely loved the characters. I will miss them! They feel real to me.
Colton has had a few dreams in life that have come true and then lost those dreams.
We meet Colton at a turning point.
Colton is a rising country music star who just lost his best friend Duane in a mass shooting. He gets up on stage one night a drunkenly shares his thoughts on gun control. And this is in a crowd of country music fans, Colton is canceled before he can walk off the stage.
Twenty years earlier Colton had a different dream. He was a young football hero about to go off to college on a football scholarship. He was with his first love Luanne, she stuck with him when he was injured, lost his scholarship and lost his plans for the future. She’s the one who helped him with his second dream: becoming a singer.
But Luanne and Colton broke up as teenagers and haven’t seen each other since.
Twenty years have passed…Colton moves back home and runs into Luanne not long after. She has also returned to town to pursue her own dream: Luanne has a successful chef with her own upscale restaurant.
She saves Colton by offering him a job and he becomes her sour chef.
This book mainly takes place in three timelines: 2015ish which is their present day, 1990’s with Luanne, 1990’s when he met his best friend Duane.
I found the timelines kind of confusing at first because the Luanne timeline and the Duane timeline were only about a year apart. But I got used to it pretty quickly.
This author has written a beautiful story and I loved his style. He even warned readers that the sweet old dog in this book wouldn’t die in the story, do you know how much that meant to me?
This is a must read.
This is a story about second, even third, chances. It’s beautifully written, it’s thought provoking, it’s hopeful, it’s a love story, and I absolutely loved the characters. I will miss them! They feel real to me.
Colton has had a few dreams in life that have come true and then lost those dreams.
We meet Colton at a turning point.
Colton is a rising country music star who just lost his best friend Duane in a mass shooting. He gets up on stage one night a drunkenly shares his thoughts on gun control. And this is in a crowd of country music fans, Colton is canceled before he can walk off the stage.
Twenty years earlier Colton had a different dream. He was a young football hero about to go off to college on a football scholarship. He was with his first love Luanne, she stuck with him when he was injured, lost his scholarship and lost his plans for the future. She’s the one who helped him with his second dream: becoming a singer.
But Luanne and Colton broke up as teenagers and haven’t seen each other since.
Twenty years have passed…Colton moves back home and runs into Luanne not long after. She has also returned to town to pursue her own dream: Luanne has a successful chef with her own upscale restaurant.
She saves Colton by offering him a job and he becomes her sour chef.
This book mainly takes place in three timelines: 2015ish which is their present day, 1990’s with Luanne, 1990’s when he met his best friend Duane.
I found the timelines kind of confusing at first because the Luanne timeline and the Duane timeline were only about a year apart. But I got used to it pretty quickly.
This author has written a beautiful story and I loved his style. He even warned readers that the sweet old dog in this book wouldn’t die in the story, do you know how much that meant to me?
This is a must read.