South Dakota:
1975. Eighteen-year-olds could order 3.2 beers in a bar and loaded guns were
kept under the counter. Frankie Valli sang My Eyes Adored You, and American
soldiers returning from Vietnam struggled with their new reality.It’s within this tumultuous season of American history that Tillie Caselli meets Noah Hansen, and they are never the same again. Their lives were mysteriously intertwined – and had been for many years – yet they had no idea.
Hm, what to
say about this. I feel like I’m usually
a better judge of book character by reading the book cover and analyzing the
front cover. This time, I don’t feel like my Spidey senses were working. It’s not terrible, how’s that? I’m not a fan of choppy editing, plot holes
or characters just to fill a character quota.
I feel all of those were represented in this book. Maybe you’ll like it, but it really wasn’t
one that I enjoyed and that is really hard for me to admit. This is the first in a new series, so maybe
some of those plot holes will be filled.
Is this a
"Guys Book"? Not really. More like a modern day “Romeo & Juliet”
without all of the family violence. Just
some kids that aren’t sure how to communicate with each other during an earlier
time in our country that saw a lot rebellious teens not doing a lot of fruitful
communicating.
Despite just meeting each other, Tillie and Noah's lives have been mysteriously intertwined for many years in Ta'Mara Hanscom's The Pretender. From the moment they met, Tillie and Noah wanted to spend the rest of their lives together, but a deliberate omission will keep them apart-and that same omission will be responsible for the escape of a murderer, and a bride's deception.
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