Another enjoyable read by Jojo Moyes. This one didn't leave me sobbing at the end, like "Me Before You", and that's okay. I can only take so many books like that! Early on the reader realizes that Mike is engaged to the wrong person for him. He has feelings for Liza almost instantly - which is a bad sign when you are engaged to your boss' daughter. I was hoping that Vanessa would realize the same thing - that Mike wasn't the man for her - but unfortunately, she wasn't willing to let him go. I hated that she promised him that she would make sure the development would not go through if he returned to her. Why would you want a man who loved another woman anyway??
I couldn't really figure out what Liza was running from. At first I thought it was an abusive husband (like in Sleeping With the Enemy). Then I thought she killed her abusive husband and she was running from the law. I couldn't really believe that she had killed her younger daughter. I thought maybe she was driving the car that killed her daughter. But would she really run away from that? It didn't seem likely. I thought it was really interesting that she thought she was in hiding but Steven knew where she was the entire time. That was a twist I didn't see coming.
I was happy that Kathleen finally came to her senses and married Nino! That was a long time coming. This book had a happy ending, which isn't always the case these days. True love conquers all, and all that. Hopefully the whale population will eventually recover. Do humans ever learn from their previous mistakes?? So many animals come close to extinction due to humans hunting them for profit. It happens again and again. Apparently when money is involved, there are always people who don't care about the long-term consequences of their actions.
Wendy's Rating: ****
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