Mia McKenzie

Audiobook

I’m not sure how I came across this but it was a fun ride. Skye is our main character and she is a pretty big mess of a person as she is approaching midlife but thanks to the excellent narration I managed to find her funny and loveable by the end of the book.

She is a prickly loner but when the child of her youthful egg donation finds her one day it sets Skye on a path that helps her make new relationships and mend some old ones all while falling back in love with her home town: Philadelphia.

“I’m happy to be in Philly. The people I love live here and so do I.”… (mais)

As I read the first sentence of this book a small ball of tension formed inside my chest, a ball that would not go away until I set the book aside and went about the rest of my day. Even thinking of reading the book ("Maybe I'll go to the coffeeshop") caused the tension ball to form and harden. I don't know why I experienced this book so extremely and so physically. Maybe it's the fact that I knew there would be violence - it says so on the book jacket - and waiting for its appearance on the page was stressing me out. Maybe it's because I knew this book would have LGBTQ themes, and I was afraid of whether or not that would be attached to the promised violence. I just don't know. In any case, this book created the bizarre situation where I needed to read the book, ate it up, could not put it down, while at the same time experiencing very real and extreme levels of stress every time I touched the cover.

Okay, enough about all that, the main issue is: was it a good book, or not? Friends, it was a fantastic book.… (mais)