Evvie Drake Starts Over

Possible spoilers.

I felt like I was in the mood to read a romance, and the title Evvie Drake Starts Over sounded quite promising, and so I checked it out. Evvie (pronounced to rhyme with Chevy, we are told a few chapters in, which threw me) was about to leave her husband when he was killed in an automobile accident. Drake has suddenly lost his ability to pitch a baseball, and that's traumatic when you are a New York Yankee. These two are thrown together for a lot of I'll-help-you-you-help-me talk therapy, but by the middle of the book I was frustrated because it felt like both these two needed a lot more help than they were able to offer each other.

I've probably already said too much, but I want to you to know that the last half of the book was much better than the first half, and I ended up liking the story very much, with a story that felt very true.

Again, this may be a spoiler, so don't read more if you are worried about that, but I loved this little part of the book:

Dr. Talco tapped her index fingers together. “Did you know it's possible to remove your own teeth with pliers?”

“This feels like a trick question.”

“Stay with it....That's what I always tell people about therapy. It's not a question of whether you could try to do it by yourself. You can always try it. But it can be dangerous, and it's harder....”