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I was more intrigued by real time as the mystery was more compelling to me than the flashbacks… we already knew from scene one what the low down was… she was crazy in love. No matter how hard she tries, Sarah cannot get hold of Eddie, all sorts of scenarios bounce around in her mind, which we as the reader are privy to. This is a book about Sarah and Eddie, two debilitatingly sad (classic) and lonely (of course) people who meet and fall in love immediately and spend a small number of Magical Days together and then when one of them leaves town to do something or other, Eddie never contacts Sarah again. In the end, the four of us were looking for a tissue and felt quite satisfied with this heartwarming ending.
If you are looking to connect to these characters based on their relationship and love story alone this might not be the one for you. This was another extremely compulsive read for me as I was emotionally invested and gripped right from the beginning which followed through to that extremely touching and stunning conclusion. I didn’t connect with this book - there wasn't much of a story and the whole thing was uneventful and underwhelming unfortunately.This was one of those books that I could relate a lot too, as I have been in the dating game and unfortunately been 'ghosted' a few times, which is very crushing!
Just listen to the audio version - the narrator did a golden job and elevated this book to new heights! I appreciated the plot twist because I did NOT see that coming at all, and I love those moments that just throw me for a loop. Since I never felt the romantic tension between the characters, I could care less about whether or not they got together and the air of mystery keeping them apart just made me more frustrated. But the premise of the book that had a woman falling apart after a one week affair with a man who disappears from her life just didn’t work for me, mainly because there just wasn’t enough of their time together shown to reflect a realistic connection between them for me. Sarah is devastated and begins to realize there is way more to this love story than she could have ever imagined.I tried to take your hand, look straight at you, but like an optical black spot you slid silently sideways, just out of reach. It was Instagram that was flooded with this one since it was a Book of the Month selection awhile back. It sings out from beyond the mystery and the plot and I know, just KNOW that this book will be a mega bestseller. I struggled but kept pushing through waiting for that moment when a story just picks up and takes off.
Rosie Walsh has a strange penchant for drifting off and describing the outdoor scenery, regardless of the fact that her characters find themselves indoors or that it’s simply irrelevant to the storyline.Her next novel, THE LOVE OF MY LIFE, publishes in the UK and US in Spring 2022, with translations following around the world. Walsh kept me guessing the entire time, and I thought the book was truly perfect from beginning to end. For some of us we started to see a different story here hidden in the coincidences of this love story that really isn’t a love story.
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