Writers and Lovers was a different read for me. I must say it is very true to its title. An aspiring, if that’s the correct term, is dealing with the sudden loss of her mother on vacation,and Luke a would be poet writer ,she met at a symposium out in the woods. The heroine is both writer a long time waitress, the latter being the only way to keep her head above water from defaulting on her student loans. With her it’s not just writers block that keeps her from succeeding it’s the fact of losing her mother so far from home and family that compounds her loss. I found the element of her life at the restaurant intriguing and revealing at the same time. I also found the restaurant scenes very real. A tried to rally for her triumph but in the end I found her too self important to surrender to her craft. Writing!

I love Lily King. In this novel, Casey is a server at a high end restaurant which is so spot on I dreamed about my own experience waiting tables in college. Cast is also an aspiring writer with an interesting and heartfelt synopsis centered around a character based on her recently deceased mother. She is looking for love and we get to experience the early doubt and witty dialogue of new relationships. Her take on other writers, her art, her debt, are just a few of what makes this character grow. I will be reading this one again!

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