A review by kat2
Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero by Amanda Kloots

dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

3.75

A friend recommended this book, and when I started reading I thought, This isn’t terrifically well written. It isn’t especially original or reflective. But then I couldn’t stop reading. The writing is workmanlike: it gets the job done. And the job is to tell the harrowing true story of Amanda Kloots and her husband Nick Cordero in the early days of Covid. It’s a great, jolting, descriptive inhabiting of 2020: masks, gloves, Lysol, travel restrictions, no vaccine, no visiting loved ones in the hospital. Nick got Covid then. Amanda is a relentlessly positive person who shares her story daily via social media, includes everyone in her life, and knows how to ask for help and receive it with gratitude. Aside from being positive, these are not my skills, and her story was an inspiring page-turner that had me sobbing by the end. Sobbing. Supposedly this is healthy. 😭🤗