Ratings9
Average rating3.6
'Tugs at the heartstrings …Weiner's achingly real characters will keep readers engaged all the way through' Publishers Weekly Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are eight years old when they meet late one night in an ER waiting room. Born with a congenital heart defect, Rachel is a veteran of hospitals, and she's intrigued by the boy who shows up all alone with a broken arm. He tells her his name. She tells him a story. After Andy's taken back to the emergency room and Rachel's sent back to her bed, they think they'll never see each other again. Rachel, the beloved, popular, and protected daughter of two doting parents, grows up wanting for nothing in a fancy Florida suburb. Andy grows up poor in Philadelphia with a single mom and a rare talent that will let him become one of the best runners of his generation. Over the course of three decades, through high school and college, marriages and divorces, from the pinnacles of victory and the heartbreak of defeat, Andy and Rachel will find each other again and again, until they are finally given a chance to decide whether love can surmount difference and distance and if they've been running toward each other all along.
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Liked it but it didn't blow me away. Rachel is a really well written character but I didn't feel like I had as much insight into Andy - kind of wish he'd been in first-person as well. Some of the minor characters felt a little cartoonish (like Maisie) but I thought they were overall effective. Solid but nothing spectacular.
Rachel Blum - high brow Philly/Miami; heart defect
Andy Landis - poor, runner, Olympian, lost
It's been awhile since I've read a romance, but after a week like I had (it was the first week of school...need I say more?) a gentle romance was about the only reading my tired brain could handle. I read it in three hours, gobbled it, really, and it was the absolute perfect book for me after that long, long, long first week of school. Like a soda after a detox or summer break after the first year of college or the new fall lineup after summer reruns. A lovely little romance.