A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I thought so much of this book was really really beautiful. The main character has a mysterious disease that surfaces when she’s 9. This disease requires her to travel and she can never go back and revisit a location she’s been two more than once. So she always has to move after 2-3 nights. The book chronicles her journey through the world. The people who touched her and the people whose lives she touched.

The whole time, I was wondering what happened to her and why she has this disease and with books like these, the endings are hard because there’s so much build up to understand. In my opinion while the ending was beautiful, it didn’t live up to what i needed to live up to. For me.

I still loved all the imagery. The sadness of never having roots. Never getting to really know someone. Losing your kid in this way. One and on. There was so much beauty and so much visual imagery in this book. I loved it.

with gratitude to netgalley and Simon & Schuster for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review

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The Trail of Lost Hearts by Tracey Garvis Graves
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a romance novel but it covers grief in a beautiful and profound way. There’s also a lot of fun geocaching in it. As someone who’s done geocaching before, I thought that adventure part was really fun. I liked both of the characters and I loved the slow burn of how they found their way to each other.

with gratitude to netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review

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