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The Art of Hiding by Amanda Prowse
5.0
”When you go through bad times, like this, you really appreciate the good.”
Honesty time, I bought this book on a whim. Once I read the blurb, I knew it was going to be something like Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You—which I really love—with some more spices on family drama. But I have to say that I am both right and wrong about it. Yes, they have one thing in common: a recently widowed stay-at-home wife who has to deal with the secrets their husband left. But the similarity ends there. This book has its focus on coping with loss and gluing life pieces back together.
”Even though it hurts now, we will be fine. We just have to keep looking forward.”
Amanda Prowse has the ways with words to mess with my feelings... continuously. I have to shamelessly admit that I cried throughout the book because the feelings were too much to handle. I cannot say that she was really poetic, but I also cannot say that she was not. What got me hooked into pulling up an all-nighter is how she effortlessly chose words that is enough to make this an easy read, but at the same time giving on details just enough to build an almost-solid world as a foundation to the story.
”At least with uncertainty there’s the chance that this really is only temporary, a staging post, and that would be something.”
I love how she creates Nina, a once stay-at-home mom who was all dependent to living off her husband’s glittering golds, to becoming a strong, independent and most importantly, a caring mother to both her children. I might have be mad at her in the beginning of the book at how she handles everything, but as the story goes her character develops to be a mother figure that is needed by her children.
”You shouldn’t let yourself be limited by what you think you can or can’t do. You should believe that you can do anything you set your mind to.”
You know what, I may or may not have considered to binge read Amanda Prowse’s books in near future because it got me hooked and I was a crying mess the whole night of reading this. And believe me when I say this doesn’t happen very often.
5/5⭐️
P.S:
”He was never satisfied. Didn’t know when he had enough.”
...and maybe I have to mention that I feel like this has some of Hamilton reference... *coughs* Tiggy is Angelica *coughs* Nina is Eliza *coughs*
Honesty time, I bought this book on a whim. Once I read the blurb, I knew it was going to be something like Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You—which I really love—with some more spices on family drama. But I have to say that I am both right and wrong about it. Yes, they have one thing in common: a recently widowed stay-at-home wife who has to deal with the secrets their husband left. But the similarity ends there. This book has its focus on coping with loss and gluing life pieces back together.
”Even though it hurts now, we will be fine. We just have to keep looking forward.”
Amanda Prowse has the ways with words to mess with my feelings... continuously. I have to shamelessly admit that I cried throughout the book because the feelings were too much to handle. I cannot say that she was really poetic, but I also cannot say that she was not. What got me hooked into pulling up an all-nighter is how she effortlessly chose words that is enough to make this an easy read, but at the same time giving on details just enough to build an almost-solid world as a foundation to the story.
”At least with uncertainty there’s the chance that this really is only temporary, a staging post, and that would be something.”
I love how she creates Nina, a once stay-at-home mom who was all dependent to living off her husband’s glittering golds, to becoming a strong, independent and most importantly, a caring mother to both her children. I might have be mad at her in the beginning of the book at how she handles everything, but as the story goes her character develops to be a mother figure that is needed by her children.
”You shouldn’t let yourself be limited by what you think you can or can’t do. You should believe that you can do anything you set your mind to.”
You know what, I may or may not have considered to binge read Amanda Prowse’s books in near future because it got me hooked and I was a crying mess the whole night of reading this. And believe me when I say this doesn’t happen very often.
5/5⭐️
P.S:
”He was never satisfied. Didn’t know when he had enough.”
...and maybe I have to mention that I feel like this has some of Hamilton reference... *coughs* Tiggy is Angelica *coughs* Nina is Eliza *coughs*