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its been a minute since ive read a JES book. this sounded like it would tug on all the heartstrings, so i couldnt resist.i think at its core, this story has all the best intentions. its touches all of the emotions of real life - loss and grief, coping and hope, moving on and finding new love, and the courage of defending your past. it covers a lot, so there are plenty of moments to feel something, which is why im so bummed that i didnt. i felt perfectly neutral the entire time.totally a me probl...
You got me, Jennifer E. Smith! Thank you for those tissue-worthy moments. They were all precious, but I could feel them building and the last was such a delight. Having cruised the inside passage twice, I was thrilled to visit Alaska with Greta and her dad Conrad. Sadly, Greta's mother was not with them. Her unexpected death was still weighing heavily on the family. The week on the ship (not a boat) seems like too much togetherness at first. Can Greta and Conrad find a way to communicate without...
**Many thanks to NetGalley, Random House-Ballantine, and Jennifer E. Smith for a gifted copy of this book!! Now available as of 3.1!!**"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain"- Bob MarleyGreta James has been proving this adage since her teenage years. Starting as many guitarists do, in tiny coffee shops and school talent shows, she is now A Name in the music biz. Her climb to semi-stardom, however, is interrupted when tragedy arrives at her doorstep: her mother has unexpe...
At the end of 2021, I find myself involved with two books both targeting family dynamics. Luckily, both of them were enjoyable stories that I can recommend. Greta James is a fairly successful indie musician who is dealing with her mother’s death. Her mother had been the one to stand between Greta and her father, who disapproves of her life. Now, she finds herself taking her mother’s place on an Alaskan cruise with her father. On board, she meets a professor hired to lecture on Jack London. He’s
(I can't tell you how many times I thought of this as The Unsinkable Molly Brown , but I'm an old musical theater fan, so get off my lawn.)In Jennifer E. Smith's first adult contemporary novel (she's a prolific YA writer), grief and resentment can make you feel far away from a person, even when you’re with them.Greta James is a talented singer/songwriter on the verge of releasing her second album. She’s had some notoriety and a few hits. But when she completely falls apart during a performanc...
Thirty-six year old Greta James is forced to go on an Alaskan Cruise with her father and a group of her parents’ friends. This was originally intended to be an anniversary trip for her parents - a trip that her late mother had been planning for and was looking forward to for a long time. Her mother’s sudden demise, three months ago, came as a shock to everyone who knew her and has left both Greta and her father submerged in their own grief.Greta is an indie musician by profession. Her relationsh...
I already enjoy those sentimental YA books of Jennifer E. Smith before and as far as I can see she can successfully achieve to switch genres to create this heartfelt adult/ women’s fiction/ family drama! An Alaskan trip bring Greta James, grieving daughter who recently choke up at the stage in front of her fans which went viral and threatened her to lose her entire musical career she’s hardly built and her father who never believed in her dream, lost without his wife’s existence in his life. Sh...
This quiet story is about a week spent on an Alaskan cruise, and the grieving father and daughter who find it hard to be around each other now that the gaping hole of where Mom should be is ever present.Full of deep, heartfelt pain and hope, it is brilliantly written mix of lit and women's fiction, with almost every page full of word-painted descriptions of the Alaskan landscape.All three (including the love interest) must work through their perspectives and decide what to keep and what to let g...
