The Words We Lost, by Nicole Deese (Book Review)
After the tragic death of her best friend, Ingrid Erikson’s career at Fog Harbor Books is on the last thread as she suffered from multiple grief driven illnesses. In the next months, Indy has not only lost her ability to escape into fiction due to a rare trauma response, but she's also desperate to find the closure she's convinced will come with Cecelia's missing final manuscript she was writing before her death—the last book in Cece’s best selling series. Then, after years of keeping their distance, Joel Campbell shows up with a mysterious envelope at her job. Cece apparently left them one final game for them to play. Indy hopes the end will lead to the missing manuscript. Giving in to Cecalia’s final wishes, Joel and Indy try putting their past together aside to play Cece’s last game, all while the chance of twice-in-a-life-time love blooming on the horizon…
“If only I knew sooner the kind of freedom truth can bring, I never would have kept it so long from the people I love most.”
Honestly, every time I see this book, I just have to giggle a little! When I say mood read, this is the perfect example.
You have to be in the right mind set to read this book, for sure. This book follows the lines on love, but also loss. The main plot is very focused on the tragic death of the main character best friend, for goodness sakes. You can go into this book thinking it’s only cringe and feel goody-ness. While that is definitely in there, the whole vibe of this book is really grief stricken. Even the ending was even bittersweet. The whole mood was sad. While that might sound like something that might hinder you into reading it, you just have to be in the right mind set going into it. It definitely not a light fluffy romance, in that sense. The story if definitely raw and real, and you get that from the character when you are reading. One thing I found really cool in this book though, is that while it is a grief fulled novel, it’s also a story about finding beauty in that pain, and seeing the goodness of God even in some of life’s toughest situations. You’ll get real life experiences, and see the two main character’s journey of healing through it.
Being that it is more solely a romance, Nicole Deese did a good job in adding plot to the story. I think that helped me when I wasn’t quite in the mood for this book, that I had a little bit of a mystery going, and that was definitely something I enjoyed. The seaside vibe of this book was also cute, and something that could really hit the spot.
While that all might sound really amazing, I found this book slightly cringy at times. To me, I love cringe-ness! Im a Hallmark girlie, for goodness sake. I just think that, yet again, I wasn’t in the right mood going into this. I am definitely a mood reader at heart, and this one just wasn’t hitting at the time. Being that it is more solely a romance, I can see how you probably have to give more grace when it comes to cringy lines and whatever and, if you know me, I love rereading my favorite parts of the books I enjoyed and I pick this one up all the time to reread parts. So yeah, I just don’t think I was necessarily in the right mood at the time because overall it’s a super nice story, for sure.
"Perhaps this was what love did to a person: It slowly turned up the temperature from within so that eventually the outside of a person had no choice but to match the warmth of the inside."
So yes, I would recommend this book to the right person, for sure! The whole story was super clean, and I’d easily recommend it to ages 12-13+. There really isn’t anything that was disturbing, there is a character that struggles with lost himself and has an alcohol problem, but otherwise is was super clean. It rate this book a 7 out of 10!
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“Missing you happy.”
Tally ho,
Finlee
Nice to hear your fully rounded thoughts on this one! Great Review!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Queeny <3
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