Colleen Hoover is one of my all time favorite authors. I have read everything she's published and loved every single book. If you haven't read a Hoover novel, you're missing out.

I like the way this novel starts with Morgan as a teenager. You get to see a version of the adults in the story in a more all encompassing way than if it were told in flashbacks. It also sets the tone for the story. The way the reader can see how Morgan, Jonah, Jenny and Chris all interact and get along from the start.

The transition into their adult lives and the addition of Clara and Miller seemed to flow pretty naturally, in spite of the gap in the timeline that the reader is not privy to. I think a lot of middle aged women will related to Morgan's sense of being unfulfilled. And as a parent of a teen about to graduate, I related to the struggle in letting your child follow their dreams, even when they don't match up with what you dream for them.

The tragedy of the book happens fairly early on, but the residual affects linger throughout the rest of the book. It's very real, any of us who have suffered this kind of loss or betrayal know that the pain doesn't just fade away, we have that lingering inside of us forever. It changes who we are and becomes a part of us. How we deal with it also changes us, it helps us to grow or fall depending on which way we take things.

In the end, the book will mean something so different to each reader, depending on where they are in their life. To me, this book resonated with themes of mother/daughter relationships and where they can go wrong and how to fix them. It was precisely the book I needed at this point and I'm so grateful to the author for giving that to me.