A mixed bag if I ever saw one. Some instances and dialogues were genuinely so moving; I was close to tears. That was mostly the first huge chunk of the story. A lot of the tension and storyline tugged at my heartstrings. I'm a lover of the friends to lovers trope when done right. There's something so beautiful and heartwarming about two people knowing each other for years (decades in this case) and cherishing each other so much. And aside from romantic love, losing a cherished friend stings like hell. It's not something that you can brush past, it leaves a huge void in your life, and I appreciate that the author did justice in encapsulating how empty that feeling is, though a lot of those conversations and descriptions came much later in the book.
You gotta be really patient with this book. It's very slow burn. It's also got a bunch of shortcomings. I don't know what was happening with the timeline. I could never tell whether the story was in the past or present, whether there was a cut. This would've been easier with the ebook maybe, but listening to it made it absolutely impossible. I'm not a fan of the resolution. All this drama for that to be the justification of everything that went down between the two of them? I'm not a hater of the miscommunication trope. It's a real thing that happens, but the way it was done in this story threw me for a toss. Didn't make all the reading worth it. So much of it felt rushed, unnecessary, and plain annoying. There was a very long lead up to the "grand reveal", which was pretty random and not satisfying. It was certainly baffling to me, because I thoroughly enjoyed a lot of the writing midway.
Patti Murin did an excellent job of the narration, as always. I've loved listening to her perform Katherine Center's books, and she held up to my expectations on this one.
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