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martysdalton's review against another edition
4.0
I won this book from a LibraryThing giveaway in exchange for an honest review.
I can't exactly say that cowboy romance is anywhere near my preferred genre, but this is a really well-written book. Carrie Mumford is a great writer. She does a nice job managing a lot of characters, giving them different feelings and personalities that are consistent throughout. Carrie also sets a great pace with short little chapters that bounce back and forth from three time periods in her character Hannah's life: childhood, teenage, and early adulthood.
The relationship between Hannah and Will was enjoyable. The drama that opens the book is memorable and powerful. The interactions between Lily and Hannah are endearing. Lily was my favorite character. I'd love a follow-up book that would get off a horse ranch and follow Lily's life post all the drama of All But What's Left.
Hannah is sometimes painfully naive. Her severe reaction to finding a "tin of weed" made me roll my eyes and definitely damaged my view of her character. She seemed childish. That made her inability to get over the relationship with her high school boyfriend a little harder to tolerate. She didn't seem like an adult navigating complex things but like a teenager. Carrie also writes other adult characters with more believability and with more nuance (like Lily).
If you're into ranch romance, this is a winner for sure.
As for me, I don't really like horses, cowboys, boots, or really anything about this genre and I still think it was worth the read. Solid writing.
I can't exactly say that cowboy romance is anywhere near my preferred genre, but this is a really well-written book. Carrie Mumford is a great writer. She does a nice job managing a lot of characters, giving them different feelings and personalities that are consistent throughout. Carrie also sets a great pace with short little chapters that bounce back and forth from three time periods in her character Hannah's life: childhood, teenage, and early adulthood.
The relationship between Hannah and Will was enjoyable. The drama that opens the book is memorable and powerful. The interactions between Lily and Hannah are endearing. Lily was my favorite character. I'd love a follow-up book that would get off a horse ranch and follow Lily's life post all the drama of All But What's Left.
Hannah is sometimes painfully naive. Her severe reaction to finding a "tin of weed" made me roll my eyes and definitely damaged my view of her character. She seemed childish. That made her inability to get over the relationship with her high school boyfriend a little harder to tolerate. She didn't seem like an adult navigating complex things but like a teenager. Carrie also writes other adult characters with more believability and with more nuance (like Lily).
If you're into ranch romance, this is a winner for sure.
As for me, I don't really like horses, cowboys, boots, or really anything about this genre and I still think it was worth the read. Solid writing.
verumsolum's review against another edition
5.0
This was the book I needed to read now. I can’t do it justice, but it felt so real and comfortable, but still dragging me through the pain and awkwardness of life. After a tough book or two that I had read, this was an easy but rewarding read. And the end wasn’t what I wanted, but there was an optimism that compensated for the book not fitting what I wanted and either.
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our protagonist’s life not fitting to her plangretchentanner's review against another edition
5.0
I was riveted immediately. I became invested in the characters and the story. The characters will make you love them or hate them and you can’t wait to see what they will do next. It’s really hard to put down. It was captivating, compelling, and well written.
canary20's review against another edition
3.0
The book was ok. There are quite a few plots in this book and really no ending to any of them. There was no resolution if it was an accident or murder of the mom, there was abuse in this book that came out of left field, the main character was just whiney and had really no direction and no decision-making skills. The author made the characters believable for the most part and you can tell she loved writing the scenes but it just was lost on me when you don't like the main character.
emmsbookshelf's review against another edition
4.0
A good read! The book alternated between three different time periods the protagonist experienced, with one being the present (actually set in the 90's though).
I liked Will and Hannah, but wanted more on Will. Overall, I think the story needed to be longer, or at least give more closure (hopefully this is in a series and we get more definitive closure)
I liked Will and Hannah, but wanted more on Will. Overall, I think the story needed to be longer, or at least give more closure (hopefully this is in a series and we get more definitive closure)
litwife's review against another edition
4.0
The feels
All But What’s Left pulled on my heart strings in a way that I was so not expecting. I agreed to Read an advanced copy expecting a mystery or suspense but what I got was a true coming of age story that follows Hannah through the grand, life altering moment where she stops going through the motions and actually begins to consider who she is and who she wants to be. You may not have grown up on a ranch or lost a parent or even been raised in the kind of small town where everyone knows your name yet, her story is so relatable, so universal that I can’t imagine any reader not feeling connected to her or being taken back to the time in your life when you stood at a proverbial fork in the road and had to make a decision about which way to go. Have you ever read a book that just *felt* like it should be a movie? To the point where you were even playing casting director and location scout in your head? This was one of those books. It gave me serious Nicholas Sparks vibes.
All But What’s Left pulled on my heart strings in a way that I was so not expecting. I agreed to Read an advanced copy expecting a mystery or suspense but what I got was a true coming of age story that follows Hannah through the grand, life altering moment where she stops going through the motions and actually begins to consider who she is and who she wants to be. You may not have grown up on a ranch or lost a parent or even been raised in the kind of small town where everyone knows your name yet, her story is so relatable, so universal that I can’t imagine any reader not feeling connected to her or being taken back to the time in your life when you stood at a proverbial fork in the road and had to make a decision about which way to go. Have you ever read a book that just *felt* like it should be a movie? To the point where you were even playing casting director and location scout in your head? This was one of those books. It gave me serious Nicholas Sparks vibes.
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