This book was amazing. the storytelling, plot and characters came together perfectly to create a book I was fascinated with and a story and the lives of the people involved. The narrative weaves in and out of time; from the present where Chloe is trying to discover why Nate has left without telling her where and the past with the story of how they met and grew up. They meet in the middle with the story of a tragedy, what they thought happened and the truth.

The first thing that pulled me into the book was Chloe’s love of reading. The descriptions of reading, especially in their childhood were so similar to how I felt - that feeling of being pulled into another world, of connecting with the book, then connecting with others who’ve read the book, who understand the world you were in. Books are the glue that hold everything together in this story, which pulls every cord in my bookwork heart.

I’m not going to go into much more detail, but this is one of the few galleys that I’ve read where I’ll be picking up a published copy.