Reminders of Him: A Novel

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Unfortunately, ✦bad timing✦ and any hope of pursuing anything more is quickly dashed when they find out who the other person really is. instead of the usual butterflies and heart flutters her books normally give me, this feels very raw and heavy. I wish I could take back what I said to you when I told you Diem wouldn't benefit from you being in her life' He slides his hands into my hair and looks at me with sincerity.

But overall the pacing of the story was off, rapid in some places (such as the ending, romance between Ledger and Kenna) and dragging in others (how long it took for her to meet Diem, the focus on secondary characters, which I enjoyed reading about but felt the focus was shifting too much). Upon discharging, she’s looking to start over and reconnect with the daughter she carried and birthed during her serving time but never had the chance to hold. It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of readers felt strongly that Kenna's situation is too harsh or too lenient. She got a job working minimum wage as a grocery bagging assistant, she worked extra hours for Ledger at his bar as a dishwasher all so she could prove her worth to the Landry's and be able to see her daughter Diem. The story offers elements of the romance genre: the hesitant movement toward new love by those wounded by previous relationships, and the affirmation of hope as characters find their way to new beginnings through friends and family.It wasn’t until the next day that she found out he had been alive for 6 hours after the accident and before he died. It didn’t feel great, but it didn’t send me into a tailspin of panic the likes of Kenna’s either, so I guess I shouldn’t judge.

To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details. It’s hard to deny that Ledger and Kenna are now intimately connected in more ways than one, and their relationship deepens. Since this is a Colleen Hoover book, I was expecting something shocking or some sort of twist somewhere throughout the book, but nothing like that happened.

I tried to pass it off as allergies, but sobbing and allergies don't exactly look the same, you know? It just felt like an emotional romance about a woman trying to get her daughter back after being in prison for five years.

When their fingers touch for the first time Ledger obviously feels like there's "an erupting volcano" trapped in his chest. But the demons of the past might catch up to her when she meets Ledger Ward, the man she is falling hopelessly in love with and the man who won't let her rebuild the bridges she burned down.

Overall, it was an emotional read that made my eyes water, but ultimately it read like a typical women’s fiction (that was evidently “CoHo,” but didn’t bear her special trademark). A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. Like most modern working women, she balances her work, her marriage, her two young sons and still finds joy in writing and promoting her own creations.

She seeks to reunite with her daughter and find forgiveness for his death, but she is shut out by everyone except a local bar owner with a connection to all of them and just may be the only one who can help. Now i know nothing about child protection laws and whatever and i don't know whether Kenna should have been given the right of seeing her daughter again, let alone getting back the privilege of having some sort of custody but both Scotty's parents and Ledger treated her like a lunatic that would just kidnap the child and then get into another car drunk and killing her as well. Scotty - Scotty and Kenna's love was so pure, told through the hundreds of letters that Kenna had written to him whilst in prison. She believed she wasn’t a bad person and hoped for forgiveness and redemption, but she didn’t do much to reach for them.Untangling stories of the past is a recurring theme in Hoover’s writing and she doesn’t disappoint here. If she was as selfish and heartless and a stone cold killer as they all made her out to be she would have surely just stayed away, glad that she didn't have to be in the kid's life?