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A review by jugglingpup
Return to Sender by Roberta Blablanski
5.0
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This has been on my list since it came out. I have been waiting for a time when I really needed something special to pick me up before I started it. All of the reviews have been praising it so much and the author is an awesome person, so I had no fears going into this book.
The story is simple and sweet. There is a bit of time jumping at the beginning and then it becomes more of a natural flow. It helped keep me from getting too distraught over the characters and it built some suspense at the same time. I have never really seen that happen before. I am impressed that in such a short book, I came to love the two men and become so invested in their lives.
I have one real complaint about the book. There are such huge gaps in time, that when any action happens it feels like it happened too quickly. The men meet back up and are instantly life partners again. While it was sweet and satisfying to some degree, it was also annoying. I wanted a bit more about their reconnecting. They had both drastically changed since they were thirteen. There had to be some growing pains and awkward. This all boils down to: short stories and novellas just generally fall flat for me, because I want so much more. So this complaint might honestly be against the format and not against this book in particular.
Wes was my favorite of the two. His story was more compelling and he felt the most emotionally real to me. He had so much more going on and I am a sucker for a tragic back story. So here I am, pining away over a middle aged mechanic that only exists in a too short book. Sigh, why did you have to do this to me Blablanksi? I was perfectly fine before Wes. I can see exactly why Drew would be into him. He just is this really great guy.
Blablanksi, please write a longer book. I would gladly let you toy with my emotions again.
This has been on my list since it came out. I have been waiting for a time when I really needed something special to pick me up before I started it. All of the reviews have been praising it so much and the author is an awesome person, so I had no fears going into this book.
The story is simple and sweet. There is a bit of time jumping at the beginning and then it becomes more of a natural flow. It helped keep me from getting too distraught over the characters and it built some suspense at the same time. I have never really seen that happen before. I am impressed that in such a short book, I came to love the two men and become so invested in their lives.
I have one real complaint about the book. There are such huge gaps in time, that when any action happens it feels like it happened too quickly. The men meet back up and are instantly life partners again. While it was sweet and satisfying to some degree, it was also annoying. I wanted a bit more about their reconnecting. They had both drastically changed since they were thirteen. There had to be some growing pains and awkward. This all boils down to: short stories and novellas just generally fall flat for me, because I want so much more. So this complaint might honestly be against the format and not against this book in particular.
Wes was my favorite of the two. His story was more compelling and he felt the most emotionally real to me. He had so much more going on and I am a sucker for a tragic back story. So here I am, pining away over a middle aged mechanic that only exists in a too short book. Sigh, why did you have to do this to me Blablanksi? I was perfectly fine before Wes. I can see exactly why Drew would be into him. He just is this really great guy.
Blablanksi, please write a longer book. I would gladly let you toy with my emotions again.