Bri

Okay so I loved IEWU and felt it was nearly perfect but I wanted more Atlas storyline. Right after I finished it, I heard that ISWU was coming out and I was so excited. I loved this book. I'd say probably like a 3.75 for me. The pace felt a little off. The beginning was slow and steady, day by day but the last third of the book felt like it skipped time too much for me. I wanted it to be a little longer of a book. I wanted more Atlas and Ryle content. Overall, it definitely gave me some of what I wanted more of from the first book but left me still wanting a bit more.

4.5 ⭐️ As usual, another great book from Jodi Picoult. I love that she had a co-author for this one. First, and I know, I know... “don't judge a book by it's cover”, but this has a beautiful cover. Even without the dust jacket, the shimmery red letters on the spine, beautiful. One negative is that I felt like I could tell which sections were primarily written by Jodi vs Jennifer, though not fully a negative because it did give some differentiation between the characters. I loved this dual POV from Olivia and Lily. They were so similar and we got to watch as Olivia realized that. I also thought the beekeeping/honey info was an interesting concept. And adding Jordan MacAfee to this book, ah perfect. I loved that. Very nearly a 5 star to me, but I compare everything to 19 minutes and this one did not have a shocking end to me. I felt like I knew what was going to happen and I wanted the build up to it to be a little more. Overall, though I really enjoyed and I can't wait to see if these two work together on more.

I really loved this book because it was not JUST a romance. There was complexity to this second chance love story. Whitney's struggle to find her stolen memories was enticing and heartbreaking. Involving children made everything all the more complicated. Shane was the total opposite of Blake and he immediately stole my heart with how he treated Whitney and her kids. He slowly became a whole new man with her around. I loved the friendships and closeness between the friends. They really leaned on each other. I think we got just enough intro to them for there to be other books with them as the feature. Overall, one of my fav romances.