My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I won this book in a goodreads giveaway, thank you for the opportunity to review this book.
This is a story of two single parents coming together and going through life with church and their children. One of which as autism. This is literally all the book is about. That's it.
I got the innate feeling that the only way that the characters in this book would forgive someone is if they become religious or regain their spirituality. Which was in a large part why I became a Deist. I just strongly dislike that view in general but it didn't really affect how I read the book, it just irked me, just a little bit.
The two characters are likable. Valerie and Gage are two people that are way too hard on themselves and had really horrible spouses that made them stronger and stuff. The kids are the real stars of this book. Laura Walker writes children well. If not anything else, the children were believable, and I always appreciate that. Kids all handle trauma differently and well, I don't really know anything about austism and how individuals with autism are, but based on how well Whitney was written I'm going to assume that she hit the mark with Justin.
Now, there are very specific reasons why I gave this book 3 stars, the book didn't really have any sort of conflict nor climax, it kind of just stayed flat the whole time story wise. Boy and girl reunite, boy hires girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy and girl get married. That's the story. To me, I like having a conflict in a story and I was expecting for Nick to be more of a conflict and he wasn't which was kind of a disappointment.
Overall, I enjoyed the book, I do think that a religious person would enjoy it more than I did because I did skip the preachy and church parts. But it was an entertaining book that put some attention onto autism, I always appreciate a book that highlights mental illness. So in that way, I recommend the book. I think all the characters in this book are mormon and I believe that mormons have their own religion, so by this logic I'd say that mormons would enjoy this book. However, if I had to be completely honest I feel that anyone that is in a religion that branches off from christianity would like this book.
Grand Verdict: LDS Book Because Yeah
Rating: 3 out of 5
Favorite Character: Gage, Whitney
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