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A review by allieveryday
Why I Held Your Hand by Augusta Reilly
5.0
I adored this. I went off the cover and two lines of the blurb and it paid off.
Laura hires a big marketing firm to help boost her little town's appeal and she gets so caught up with witty and handsome David she almost doesn't notice Spence and his immediate awe of her. She and David immediately start a relationship (a little too immediate IMO) while she and Spence start two big projects and get close in their own way.
Reilly did one of my favorite things in books: dropping innocent lines and dialogue that come back to hit you like a bag of bricks toward the end. And I never saw it coming, made me want to reread it as soon as I finished to pick up those clues.
I really appreciate that Reilly did not make it a super obvious choice for Laura, she didn't pit the two men evilly against each other. she didn't write one or the other as the obvious "bad" option, she made Laura's choice real and believable, even relatable. By the end I was full of anticipation and joy and I nearly cried.
Laura hires a big marketing firm to help boost her little town's appeal and she gets so caught up with witty and handsome David she almost doesn't notice Spence and his immediate awe of her. She and David immediately start a relationship (a little too immediate IMO) while she and Spence start two big projects and get close in their own way.
Reilly did one of my favorite things in books: dropping innocent lines and dialogue that come back to hit you like a bag of bricks toward the end. And I never saw it coming, made me want to reread it as soon as I finished to pick up those clues.
I really appreciate that Reilly did not make it a super obvious choice for Laura, she didn't pit the two men evilly against each other. she didn't write one or the other as the obvious "bad" option, she made Laura's choice real and believable, even relatable. By the end I was full of anticipation and joy and I nearly cried.