Book Description
Days before her wedding, Julia Walsh is blindsided twice: once by the sudden death of her estranged father…and again when he appears on her doorstep after his funeral, ready to make amends, right his past mistakes, and prevent her from making new ones.
Surprised, to say the least, Julia reluctantly agrees to turn what should have been her honeymoon into a spontaneous road trip with her father to make up for lost time. But when an astonishing secret is revealed about a past relationship, their trip becomes a whirlwind journey of rediscovery that takes them from Montreal to Paris to Berlin and back home again, where Julia learns that even the smallest gestures she might have taken for granted have the power to change her life forever.
Surprised, to say the least, Julia reluctantly agrees to turn what should have been her honeymoon into a spontaneous road trip with her father to make up for lost time. But when an astonishing secret is revealed about a past relationship, their trip becomes a whirlwind journey of rediscovery that takes them from Montreal to Paris to Berlin and back home again, where Julia learns that even the smallest gestures she might have taken for granted have the power to change her life forever.
Review
I'd like to thank AmazonCrossing and NetGalley for the eARC they provided. This is my honest review.
This is the second book I've read by Marc Levy and it's easy to see why he is such a renowned French author. I really enjoyed this book and will look forward to reading more of his work in the future.
The characters are what makes this book come alive. The friendship between Julia and Stanley is so solid although it's a good three-quarters of the book before you find out why their friendship is so deep and strong. Even though some of the people in the story have a very small part to play, Levy does an amazing job of finding the humanness in each of them. They are simple and yet complex, certainly believable and easy to relate to.
I think the book is a little hard to classify: it's certainly literary fiction...but then there's a bit of a science fiction twist thrown in with Julia's father reappearing as an android just after his death to mend the rift between them. The relationship between them is so beautifully done - as a reader you can't take sides with either of them, you just keep turning the pages, cheering them on to reconciliation. And then there is the second chance at love for soul mates element to the story that Levy draws out in agonizing detail. And then, when it gets to be a little too much, Levy throws in just the right amount of humor.
The characters are what makes this book come alive. The friendship between Julia and Stanley is so solid although it's a good three-quarters of the book before you find out why their friendship is so deep and strong. Even though some of the people in the story have a very small part to play, Levy does an amazing job of finding the humanness in each of them. They are simple and yet complex, certainly believable and easy to relate to.
I think the book is a little hard to classify: it's certainly literary fiction...but then there's a bit of a science fiction twist thrown in with Julia's father reappearing as an android just after his death to mend the rift between them. The relationship between them is so beautifully done - as a reader you can't take sides with either of them, you just keep turning the pages, cheering them on to reconciliation. And then there is the second chance at love for soul mates element to the story that Levy draws out in agonizing detail. And then, when it gets to be a little too much, Levy throws in just the right amount of humor.
I gave this book: ★★★★
★ = I did not like it ★★ = It was okay ★★★ = I liked it
★★★★ = I really liked it ★★★★★ = I loved it
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