Memories of You by Brooke Harris

 





Synopsis:


The sound of corks popping and distant cheers of ‘Happy New Year!’ wake me. I crack my eyes open and take a slow, surprisingly painful breath. My sister’s face comes into focus, and I see the tears staining her cheeks. Where am I?

One minute, pastry chef Tabitha Greenwood is driving through rain-soaked Dublin with her fiancé, Mark, on their way to a New Year’s Eve party. The next, she is waking up in the hospital, the devastated face of her sister telling her everything she doesn’t want to know. Mark is gone. And Tabby knows that it’s her fault.

Lost in her grief and haunted by memories, Tabby can’t seem to return to the woman she was. Until one day, sorting through Mark’s belongings, she finds a delicate rose-gold bracelet with an engraving that changes everything. Because this heartfelt gift isn’t for her…

Should she follow the mystery? Find the girl this bracelet belongs to? Faced with the choice to step beyond the walls she’s built around herself, Tabby doesn’t realise how many lives will be affected by her decision, and how much the answers she finds will upend her world again…


Review:



Tabitha Greenwood starts the year with 12 New Year's Resolutions, but she never carried out all of them.
This year her first resolution was to break up with her long time fiancè, but it didn't go as she planned and her life has been completely turned upside down.
Tabby must go on and try to conquer all her resolutions in order to survive the hardest year of her life.

Memories of you was a very heartbreaking, emotional journey.
We follow Tabby during the year, and we can see her changes chapter after chapter. At the beginning it's really hard to read about her grief, but her sister helped her to accept her new life.

I loved the characters. Tabby's sister, Avery,on top of all. She is a force of nature, she never gave up and tried to help Tabby even when she resisted to every change to be stucked in the past. Tabby is a kind woman, at times too much and some people take advantage of her. It seems like her grief is less than that of the others, and she is almost scared to speak her mind most of the time. I've adored when she rediscovered her true self, pulled her life together and started to live for herself, being happy for real.

Brooke Harris wrote these characters very well, their flaws make them more real, relatable and endearing.
It was the first time I've read this author but it won't be the last.

I recommend to read this book, if you are not worried to shed some tears while reading.






Release Date: 07.10.2023


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