<i>The Pleasing Hour</i> asks the question, “What do you do when you have so much love to give but don’t know how to give it?” I feel like I got to know each character personally because we get the story from Rosie's point of view, then from the point of view of each member of the Tivot family,

as letters Rosie never sent to her sister

, etc.

I cried my eyes out once and got choked up more than once. Their stories are all sensitively told and even when I hated the characters for their choices, I still loved them and wanted everything to turn out okay for them. This was a good book to end 2024 with.