Pictures of You
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A PEOPLE Magazine's Best Book of November 2024 A November 2024 Book of the Month Selection What would you do if you could start over? Imagine having a second chance with the one you never forgot. From the author of the global breakout bestseller The Last Love Note comes the story of a young woman struggling to piece her life back together in the wake of a tragic accident, and the man who gives up everything to help her. Evie Hudson should be grieving her dead husband, but since the car crash that claimed his life and landed her in the hospital, she can’t remember him at all. The only person who can help her piece her past together is her high-school best friend Drew Kennedy. When snippets of her memory start falling into place, Evie wonders exactly how she ended up in a life that couldn’t be further from the one she dreamed of. This time around, she’s seeing all the things she missed—and the life she gets to choose . . . again.
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Easy to binge which is what I wanted - a bit of Colleen Hoover vibes but this actually well written.
I cannot possibly imagine what the usually smart, reliable, snarky AV Club pop culture site was thinking when they included this novel in their November listing of “10 books you should read.” I mistakenly took them up on their suggestion, but was dismayed to find a [a:Colleen Hoover 5430144 Colleen Hoover https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1464032240p2/5430144.jpg]-like, predictable melodrama with a Mary Sue FMC who is Not Like All the Other Girls (studious, outspoken, doesn't know she's beautiful, etc.). Evie is torn between broody, intense, love-bomber Oliver and quirky, supportive friend-zoned Drew. You do the math. I've read rave GR reviews claiming that it's best to go into the book without knowing much about the plot because it has so many twists, but IMO almost all of them were telegraphed in the first flashback chapter. I can't say this isn't a page turner; the short chapters and alternating POVs make the book go down easily, but it's all empty calories. I'm glad that AV Club listed a romantic suspense novel in addition to their usual trendy lit-fic, but there are so many other, better books they could have chosen.
