This is another recommendation from Real Simple magazine. Here's what the magazine had to say:
"[the book] opens with divorced therapist Tallie Clark driving home from work. She notices a man standing on the edge of a bridge, coaxes him back, then persuades him to have a cup of coffee with her. What happens next makes for a poignant page-turner about perseverance and two broken people who, like all of us at one time or another, just need someone to tell them everything's going to be all right."
Well, this book was close to ok. It wasn't more than ok. It was ok-ok. It felt a little meander-y, a little aimless at times, a little contrived at times, and a little boring at times. I started reading this book on June 16 and finished it on June 26.
I wish the book seemed a little more real, a little more deep, a little more more. I'm not entirely sure why I feel this book is only ok. The Amazon review says "uplifting, cathartic story about chance encounters, hope found in unlikely moments, and the subtle magic of human connection." I definitely didn't feel this was a cathartic, uplifting story. It was a story I was waiting to get that way, but for me it didn't happen. Maybe it will be for you? Only you will know.
Post written on July 6, 2023. Publication date reflects date I finished the book.
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