I enjoyed this quirky love story. Teen Tessa is a romance writer who “loses her words” due to her anxiety and “imposter syndrome” when she starts attending a prestigious arts high school. Her best friend formulates a plan for Tessa to find her own happily ever after to hopefully inspire her writing to return. Easily written, with great, loveable, diverse characters and fun moments. I appreciated the inclusion of a character (Tessa’s brother) with autism. Overall a great book.
I really enjoyed this book! It switches between storylines and perspectives of Laura, a housewife who decides to pursue journalism in 1913, and Sadie, a library curator in 1993. Laura is ambitious and feeling stuck in her role of mother and caretaker. Sadie is down on love and misses out on a promotion. Their stories connect, but readers don’t find out why or how until later in the book. It has love, family, feminism, and suspense, and the NYC Library feels like another character. It’s not at all ‘slow’, but I did notice it picks up in the last third of the book, I couldn’t put it down.
This book kept my attention with every word. The writing was beautiful and the characters were loving, mysterious, cautious, caring and complicated. One night Tallie stops a man from jumping off a bridge, invites him into her home. Though they don’t know much about each other, their lives change, and their souls tie. TW: suicide, child death.
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