Meadowbrook Lane ReadsALot

 Recommend!!!  First Colleen Hoover book I’ve read and can’t wait to read another. It’s a mix of both a love story but also just kind of a general “novel.”   I was trying to think of how to describe the book without completely giving away the whole story…so…I’m just going to go with the synopsis on the back of the book: (As follows)  Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true.  Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is distu...

Ok—so.  Definitely an old-school Kristin Hannah book. Nothing like anything I’ve read of hers before. Apparently she started out as a romance novel writer. That is definitely what this was. I must say, I didn’t hate it. It was good, in that it still had that part of Kristin Hannah that pulls you in …and that makes you want to keep reading to see what will happen. So this story is actually about a woman who basically wakes up 100 years in the past. At first she keeps thinking she is dreaming but it turns out she is not.  So the premise of the whole book is basically her trying to get back to her present day life and figuring out what needs to happen to do that. Of course now with it being a romance book obviously there is a romance twist in it all. I think it’s definitely worth reading  just to check out early Kristin Hannah, if for nothing else. Three out of five stars.   

  Ok. I loved this book. I think it’s because the author did SUCH an awesome job on developing the main character. It’s like you TRULY knew him—-or know people just like him!  You can “hear” his voice and just exactly HOW he’d be saying different things.  It’s almost like a “coming of age” book, but about an old man instead.  An old, grumpy man in the years after losing his wife.  The quote on the front cover of the book from People actually wraps it up so perfectly. It says, “ You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll feel new sympathy for the curmudgeons in your life.”  Highly recommend. Solid 4.5/5