Publication Date: May 15, 2018
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Rating: ★★★★★
Margaret Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her: a fiancé she adores, her dream job, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in one tumultuous moment.
In the hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Margaret must figure out how to move forward on her own terms while facing long-held family secrets, devastating heartbreak, and the idea that love might find her in the last place she would ever expect.
How to Walk Away is Katherine Center at her very best: an utterly charming, hopeful, and romantic novel that will capture reader’s hearts with every page.
Review:
When I started How to Walk Away, I was sucked right in. I was recommended this novel by a bookish friend, and let me just say – I was not disappointed. This was a well deserved five-star rating for me.
This novel is about how fast things can change. In a split second, Margaret’s life was flipped upside down. It’s a journey about Margaret’s life in this novel and what she will do when helping herself. It’s a question of if she will fall with it or rise above it.
“They say your life flashes before your eyes, but it wasn’t my life as I’d lived it that I saw. It was the life I’d been waiting for. The one I’d never get a chance to live.”
The characters were so wonderful to read. I felt like I was included in there and was watching everything unfold right in front of my eyes. I could really feel their pain and heartache and felt the inspiration that they all had to achieve their new goals after such a traumatic event.
I loved the story as well. I was tearing up one second and busting out laughing the next. The writing was spectacular and I read Katherine Center’s newest book right after this one because I wanted to see how amazing both were. Katherine really, really has a way with words.
The thing I appreciated the most was that I feel like Katherine Center didn’t try and romanticize a tragedy. There was a lot of emotions throughout this book and I didn’t feel like the romance aspect was overpowering in the slightest. I’m someone who loves a good romance novel, but I feel like this didn’t have that as its priority. This was a fantastic, empowering novel that I want to keep with me forever!
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