Reminders of Him

Who am I to give [a:Colleen Hoover 5430144 Colleen Hoover https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1464032240p2/5430144.jpg] 4 stars? I read the book as fast as my spare time would allow. However the constant ruminating over the inability to solve the primary conflict (reuniting a child with a bio mom) got redundant. Hence, four stars. Kenna and Ledger were well-painted characters. The premise of the story is so universal (a parent kept from a child) that the author couldn't decide where the story should take place, and, in the end, decided not to pick a city. In her words: “You might have noticed there was never a location specified for where this story actually takes place. I've never had this issue in a book—solidifying a location for the characters. I just kept placing Kenna in different towns while writing her story, and none of them felt right because they all felt right.”I did feel Ledger was too altruistic. I've only met a few men in my life who care deeply enough for someone else's child to drop a girlfriend, donate most of their free time to coaching their T-ball, and drive them to ballet, as well as keep scads of pics and videos of said child on their phone. All this and incredibly good-looking with a stable job and two houses? Of course, I loved Ledger. Who wouldn't? But he's the stuff of fairy tales. I think if he'd had a bad habit it might have made him more realistic.Kenna was fully believable for me. Maybe a bit more forgiving than the average bear (or former jailbird) but all her attempts to make nice with her daughter's paternal grandparents and her unending guilt for a horrible accident seem spot on to me.Side note: I did love Ledger's parents. Nice, secondary characters.I was happy with the ending.