Every Breath

 

Oh my gosh.  Why haven’t I jumped on the Nicholas Sparks bandwagon years ago?!?!?  Now I shall be going through all of his book I think!  Incredible!  It’s like a Hallmark movie (well—with a lot more depth) in a book! I think maybe I haven’t read him in the past because his books are somewhat known to be super sad/tear-jerkers/sob-stories???  While there was definitely sad elements throughout,  there are SO many emotions actually!  I almost felt like this book was a mix somewhere between an Elin Hilderbrand and a Kristin Hannah.  

Hope is 36 and staying at her parents cottage on the water in North Carolina for the last time (they recently sold due to her dads failing health-ALS) as it is in close proximity to a friends wedding she is standing up in as a bridesmaid that coming weekend.  She’s there alone and without her boyfriend of the last 6 years because they are again on a “break.”  He went to Vegas with buddies for the weekend instead.  She loves him and has been wanting a future with him but yet it’s been 6 years and all they still are is “dating.”  Not married, or have kids, or engaged or even living together—and now they’re also “on a break.” 

Tru lives in Zimbabwe as a safari guide and recently got a letter from the USA from his birth father whom he’s never met. He has invited him out to meet him and enclosed a plane ticket. 

Tru is staying at the cottage his father owns which ends up being next door to Hope.  This is pretty much the story of these two and all that is going on in both of their lives at the time…. After their lives intersect, do they try to make it work a continent away?  Keep in touch? Just go back to their old lives?  What about years down the road?  

It’s about choices, and guilt, and forgiveness, and regrets, and family and ugh—-it’s just SO good.  I found it SO relatable.  It was the kind of story you could place yourself in and wonder what would you have done???

I absolutely loved this one. Just what I needed for whatever reason right now.  4.7/5.