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unlikely friendship

May 4, 2021 Emily Reviews, Uncategorized

{Emily’s Review}: Before I Saw You, By Emily Houghton

Alice Gunnersley and Alfie Mack sleep just a few feet apart from one another. They talk for hours every day. And they’ve never seen each other face-to-face.

After being in terrible accidents, the two now share the same ward as long-term residents of St. Francis’s Hospital. Although they don’t get off to the best start, the close quarters (and Alfie’s persistence to befriend everyone he meets) brings them closer together. Pretty soon no one can make Alice laugh as hard as Alfie does, and Alfie feels like he’s finally found a true confidante in Alice. Between their late night talks and inside jokes, something more than friendship begins to slowly blossom between them.

But as their conditions improve and the end of their stay draws closer, Alfie and Alice are forced to decide whether it’s worth continuing a relationship with someone who’s seen all of the worst parts of you, but never seen your actual face.

A tender novel of healing and hope, Before I Saw You reminds us that connections can be found even in the most unexpected of places—and that love is almost always blind.

Filed Under: Reviews, Uncategorized Tagged With: Before I Saw You, Chick Lit, Contemporary, contemporary romance, DNF, Emily Houghton, grumpy/sunshine trope, hospital, lackluster, Love, pacing, patients, Romance, Sunday Roast, tragic accident, unlikely friendship, women's fiction

January 7, 2020 Lisa Reviews

[Lisa’s Review:] Every Other Weekend by Abigail Johnson

Abigail Johnson’s Every Other Weekend is my first read of the year, and I honestly can’t tell you when a book last left me this much of an emotional mess. Johnson managed to spin an angsty, emotional, and incredibly realistic story around two, for different reasons, broken homes, the unpredictability of life, and the unexpected […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: contemporary romance, friends turned lovers, TW: Sexual Assault, unlikely friendship, young adult

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