This is a tough one to review! Without revealing spoilers, that is.
And a bit tough to read, too, but not because it isn't a stellar, nail-biting human drama, but because it IS a stellar, nail-biting human drama.
This book is an engrossing story that I never even realized, until I'd finished, that there were really no heroes or villains. No good guys, no bad guys. But, like REAL life, just humans.
As in a GOOD portrait of real-life humanity, the characters in this novel do the things humans do and feel the things real humans feel.
And that's what made the story so familiar and so electric for me. Even as unpleasant as some of the human emotions, desires, faults were, I RECOGNIZED them. I'd venture to say most would recognize themselves in this drama. A love story, but a drama, too.
Without revealing too much, the key to this read, for me, was that helpless angst that comes when you're up against your biggest threat: the one who's always been pacing around the outskirts of your life, who's always been the clear and present danger who's masterfully skilled at stealing your thunder, stealing your loves. The one whose very name is 'tension', 'competition.'
This factor of the story is an age-old scenario, yet it's offered so realistically that I found myself hurting with some of the characters, wanting to knock some upside the noggin but reluctantly finding them attractive just like everyone else in the story.
The main characters, Michael (oh, how I loved him), Peter and Trisha. I tried to find fault with them...to criticize their weaknesses, to be angry with their misunderstandings and hate them when they acted on their human desires that drove them into all the wrong places. But I couldn't find fault, I could only shake my head and KNOW exactly why they did what they did. Because, again, they were divinely HUMAN.
One of the lovely parts of the novel is the lovely, bright side of humanity: that often life so beautifully really HAS a path that DOES lead us to where we are meant to be. We do not know it until we get there. But, when we DO get there, it's RIGHT.
I recommend if you love tales of humans doing human things, if you love romance, if you love spicy encounters, stylish settings, cozy settings, stories about folks just like yourself who bumble through and ultimately arrive.
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