📖AUTHOR: RUTH F STEVENS
📖BLURB: When Mar Meyer's husband divorces her for another woman, she reacts by abandoning everything in her past: her home, her friends, even her name. Though it's not easy to start over, Mar is young-looking, fit, and ready for new adventures-as long as she can keep things casual.
With each passing month, Mar goes from one acquaintance to the next. Among them: a fellow gym member down on her luck, a flirty hip-hop instructor, a bossy but comical consultant, a kindly older gentleman... and Charlie, a handsome best-selling novelist who wants more from Mar than she's able to give.
She learns something new from each encounter. But can she change enough to open herself up to happiness and true connection?
📖PUB DATE: September 26th 2024
📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:
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Thank you to Booksirens, the publisher, and the author for providing me with an advance review copy of 'My Year of Casual Acquaintances' and providing my honest opinions.
In this book, we follow Margaret, who insists on everyone calling her "Mar" after her divorce and separation from the man she once loved (I think) Henry. Henry and Margaret have been married for twenty-eight years (long right!) And the divorce gave her an opportunity to start again, no longer as Margaret but as Mar!
Mar is fifty but still very young in looks and at heart—she is embracing all the new changes with stride. Mar joins Seaside Fitness, should I say, in a bid to acquire 'new acquaintances'—not friends acquaintances, but even this becomes complicated when she meets Charlie and her feelings become muddled.
Some scenes made me chuckle a bit, and I enjoyed seeing how Mar grew her circle of 'friends' and even became an avid reader!
Overall, this was an okay read for me, even though I did not enjoy the cliffhanger at the end. I heard there's a sequel. I hope it is about Mar and Charlie. Ha!
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
📖RATINGS: 3 STARS ⭐⭐⭐
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