reviewsbyerin

Meg Moseley's third novel tells the story of Laura, Sean, and Cassie, who promised at age 12 to always be there for each other. Now 18 years later, they all find themselves back their small Georgia hometown. Laura is there to bury her mother, Sean never left, and Cassie is back to help evaluate her own mother's lapsing memory.

As Laura begins trying to go through her mother's things and settle her affairs, she is shocked to hear the rumors that are circulating around town. Her father, long thought drowned after never returning from a fishing trip, has been seen in the woods. Is it really him? If it is, why did he abandon Laura and her mother? It's a lot of emotions to work through at one time.

Sean has loved Laura for as long as he can remember, but his eagerness to love and protect her after her father's supposed drowning made Laura skittish. Having looked up to Elliott Gantt as a father figure himself and now following him in the luthier profession, Sean doesn't want to believe that the man who was his hero would have done such a horrible thing as walk away from his family and let them think he was dead.

While trying to help her parents, Cassie is also coming to realize how far down on her priority list her marriage has fallen. They have been chasing the American dream in California, but maybe it's time to chase their relationship back to where it needs to be.

This book was mostly conversations and introspections, with not a lot of action. I had a very hard time picturing the characters in any other setting besides the ones the author put them in; they were not three-dimensional or dynamic. I enjoyed this story, but the style kept it easy to read while not being that engaging. There was nothing to make me care about the outcome. Moseley is a talented author whose future releases I will still watch for, but I'll recommend her first two before this one.

I received my copy from BloggingForBooks in exchange for this honest review. All opinions are my own.