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Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
Thank you NetGalley and st martins press for giving me this arc. I love Katherine’s writing . She writes wonderfully stories with characters you love without the spice. Maybe a 1 on spice scale only 2 kisses in the whole book. This book has a different turn than the others I have read by her . The fmc has a blood vessel in her brain that needs to be operated on . She gets the surgery but than has swelling that causes her to have a particular vision issue that messes with her ability to identify people .
She is an artist and was chosen for a contest for her portrait ability but now she has a limited time frame to create a new portrait for the contest and it needs to be a portrait of a live subject.
She tries some new ways to create the art due to her vision issues but they don’t work 100% . She is able to improve slowly but her impairment greatly hinders her ability to make her art. We see her slowly heal and the trial and tribulations she must go through to navigate her new life
There are two mmc joe who lives in her building who she recognizes from his vintage bowling jacket and dr addition her vet as he has a more professional aura and wears his lab coat.
I loved how to the story progressed. We learn how her mother died and her stained relationship with her father. Her step mother and step sister and the toxic relationship their . The guilt her father feels about the death and how they both deal with the death of the woman they loved.
Parker (step sister) has lashed out from the beginning but after a surprise even we learn more about Parker and why she is the way she is.
Triggers: toxic family
, parent death, face blindness
She is an artist and was chosen for a contest for her portrait ability but now she has a limited time frame to create a new portrait for the contest and it needs to be a portrait of a live subject.
She tries some new ways to create the art due to her vision issues but they don’t work 100% . She is able to improve slowly but her impairment greatly hinders her ability to make her art. We see her slowly heal and the trial and tribulations she must go through to navigate her new life
There are two mmc joe who lives in her building who she recognizes from his vintage bowling jacket and dr addition her vet as he has a more professional aura and wears his lab coat.
I loved how to the story progressed. We learn how her mother died and her stained relationship with her father. Her step mother and step sister and the toxic relationship their . The guilt her father feels about the death and how they both deal with the death of the woman they loved.
Parker (step sister) has lashed out from the beginning but after a surprise even we learn more about Parker and why she is the way she is.
Triggers: toxic family
, parent death, face blindness
Content Warnings
Moderate: Medical content