The Love of My Life
Ratings11
Average rating3.5
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Ratings11
Average rating3.5
I have held you every night for ten years and I didn’t even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you? Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie. And she might just have got away with it, if it weren’t for her husband’s job. Leo is an obituary writer and Emma is a well-known marine biologist, so, when she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best – reading and writing about her life. But as he starts to unravel her past, he discovers the woman he loves doesn’t really exist. Even her name is fictitious. When the very darkest moments of Emma’s past life finally emerge, she must somehow prove to Leo that she really is the woman he always thought she was . . . But first, she must tell him about the love of her other life. The Love of My Life is the astounding new novel from Rosie Walsh, bestselling author of The Man Who Didn’t Call.
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The book was kind of a slow burn. About half way through the book I started confusing some of the characters as it just wasn't fully keeping my attention.
I was most interested in finding out about Emma's past as it was so hush hush. I found that everything being covered up was a bit anticlimactic and the timing of when things were happening did not make a ton of sense.
There also seemed to be many parts of the book where I found myself asking why parts of the book were even necessary to add.
Overall, I enjoyed the story, but there was a lot left to be desired.
I think this book was too hyped up. I would say 3 1/2 stars.
Not unforgettable or anything, but it holds some surprise and a technicolor feeling of past and future merging.
