Rochelle B. Weinstein

Thank you to the author and the publisher.

I love books about songs since I love music. Each chapter was a song and artist I was either familiar with and recognized songs.

I read the backstory from the author on her FB page and knew I had to read this. I also love the song which the it was based on, Plain White T's “Hey There Delilah.”

Cecelia was a writer for The Rolling Stone in the late 90s and was conceived at Woodstock with parents who loved the music of the 70s and involved in music, so she was immersed too. A lot happens in this book not only with her writing life but with her feelings about her father who abandoned her to live with his new wife and kids when she was a teenager and her late mother and her relationship with her boyfriend Pete who she's been seeing who's about to give up on her for many reasons. Cecelia was only in her late 20s but married to her job and he couldn't handle that and I can understand why.

The other plot was about Sara Friedman, in 1979, in Miami who spent a lot of Jewish holidays and summers there with her extended family. She meets Eddie but her parents (especially her mother) don't approve because he's not Jewish. Yes, there's a connection between the title of this books song).

I'm a sucker for a good epilogue where I cry sometimes, and this was it.

If you're a music lover, this is a must read. As Tina Turner once sang, “Simply The Best.”… (altro)

This was my Kindle First pick of Dec 2019. I don't normally read women's fic, but the plot reminded me a lot of a situation that my good friend is going through: Married to a good guy who works hard but is never around, and then falling for someone else who is also a single father. That's where the similarities end, of course. I went into this expecting a breezy, light love-triangle summer reading type of story, but boy, was I caught off-guard. The emotions, man, they got to me, and I found myself tearing up while reading this on a plane ride back home. Not many stories make me so emotional, so props to Ms. Weinstein's powerful writing.

And talk about meeting the right person at the wrong time...and a great story that if things are meant to be, it will be. It's written in first person from Charlotte's POV, weaving between the past and present. Things do flow and tie together quite nicely and in a way that makes sense. And I'm not sure if it was just me, but the chemistry and love story between Charlotte and Ben wasn't palpable and didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. But, that might just be the cynic in me.

While I really enjoyed this book, it did have its slow moments and the ending is rather predictable, even though still very touching. But, I just felt like things were wrapped up too perfectly in an HEA. That being said, this book did introduce me to NAET (a form of treating allergies), and I've begun looking into that, as a lifelong sufferer of allergies. Recommended read, and it will stick with me for a while.… (altro)

Thank you to Goodreads.

This book was not only about family but about forgiveness and how love conquers all even with all the lies that can be told.

I especially enjoyed the relationship between Elle, Jude's (Avery's almost fiance) and Avery who goes from her job in Miami back home to Crystal, NC, after her father is injured. She hasn't been in almost 7 years after a fire that killed her baby. Elle decides to sneak into Avery's car when she goes back sort of a runaway.

The farm is a refuge once again and Avery reconciles with her sister Willow who brought her up with her father after her mother died when she was very young.

The ending was what exactly I hoped it would be too.… (altro)