Well told story about family connections and relationships. I loved meeting the “leading” male characters. They were strong, loving, good men who cherished their families and showed respect to others. I appreciated the main female characters who struggled with identity, choices made, questions and childhood emotions, but learned to be honest and appreciate what the future could hold for them together. Very good read!
Advanced reader copy courtesy of the publishers at NetGalley for review.

Paige is missing her dad on her 43rd birthday. It was his birthday also. Paige and her dad were extremely close. Paige always thought that her mother was was cold and distant. This story follows the family in duel timeline. Chapters are labeled Now, Then. Then is the timeline in the 70's when Mom and Dad were in college. I very much reading this story and I did have a few times when I cried. Thank you Netgalley and Haper Collins for the ebook arc.

I loved every second of this book! It was such a beautiful story about a girl named Paige who one day receives an email from a DNA test stating they found a match for her biological father (who she had no idea was different from the one who raised her). One of my favorite parts was how the author would go back and forth between the past (Paige's mothers story) and her own. It was fantastic and I cannot wait to read more by Alison. Be prepared to laugh, cry and everything in between!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC of Little Pieces of Me. All opinions are my own.

I am rating this book 4 stars. The story is set in the”then” and the “now,” both settings revolving around a mother, Betsy in her college years, and her and her daughter, Paige’s relationship in the present. Betsy enjoys one evening of spontaneity in college which leads to a shocking email that Paige receives 40 some years later from familytree.com. Themes of love and family run deep in this novel.

Thank you NetGalley and Alison Hammer for allowing me to read an advanced copy of this novel. It was a fast read for me, couldn't put it down! Paige is cruising through life into her 40's, missing her dad who passed a couple of years before as she doesn't have much of a relationship with her mom, even though she has tried. She gets an email from a DNA test which rocked what she had always thought was a very secure world. The story goes back and forth between now and when Paige's parents were young and in college. I enjoyed every minute of the twists and turns of all the characters; both past and present. In the hours it took to read, I laughed, cried, yelled, stomped my foot and sighed, and in the end, it just left me feeling good! I will read more from Alison Hammer in the future, and will definitely recommend this book when released next spring.

Thank you NetGalley for my advanced reader copy of Little Pieces of Me by Alison Hammer. I neither hated nor liked this book. I felt the story dragged on and on and the main character was a whiner. The story flipped back and forth between past and present. Neither was interesting. I am sorry to say, I would recommend taking a pass on this book.

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May contain spoilers: Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book as an ARC in return for a honest review. I really liked this book! When Paige gets a notification from a DNA testing website that she has a match and finds out it is from a parent her world as she knows it totally changes. To her knowledge her father was her father, they were very close, and he died 2 years prior. She has always felt out of place in her family though and looked nothing like her parents and younger twin sisters. The book goes back and forth from current day with Paige exploring her parentage and the early 70's when her mother and father were in college together and dating. The DNA testing site matched her with Andy Abrams who was a student that Paige and her sorority sister SIssy both knew from their college parties. Andy is harboring a secret that he is gay, which was not something to be open about at that time, especially as he was an athlete and in a fraternity. When Paige feels frustrated by her boring boyfriend she she has a night of fun with Andy that results in a pregnancy. He then tells her he is gay. The reason I give this book only 4 stars is I really did not like Betsy's character. She got back together with her boyfriend, faking that the child was his, and living a lie. She never told Andy he was a father and until 43 years later when Paige finds this all out she always held her daughter at arms length. At the end it sounds like Andy did know as he saw Betsy with her new husband and daughter when she was a baby. So didn't say much about him either that he just let the lie go on. I guess we do things differently in college then we would years later. But that all being said I did really like the book. Quick read.

The life of a woman is upended and in turmoil when, through a DNA test, she discovers that her father is not really her father. The journey she emotionally takes is well written and an examination of her dilemma and that of her mother.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Thank you to William Morrow and Net Galley for a digital ARC of this title in exchange for my honest review. I enjoyed this book about a young woman who, like a lot of daughters, is a Daddy's Girl. She and her mom had always had a strained relationship. On a fluke, she ended up doing a DNA test that showed she had a different biological dad. Her mom continued to insist that this wasn't the case. As the story unfolds, the narrative goes between current day and her parent's college years. A highly recommended book that makes you think about what makes a family, how to heal old wounds, and how to move forward when everything turns upside down.

I’m no stranger to books with dual narratives in which the present follows an adult child and the past follows his/her parents, with both storylines serving to unravel a present conundrum. In Little Pieces of Me, the author uses this narrative device with a deft hand, and the result is an engaging story that kept me turning pages in search of understanding and resolution for the characters. And the characters. Ultimately, they were what made this story special. Each was well-drawn and fully human. Most dear to me were Andy Abrams and Mark Meyer, the latter of whom is the only one whose circumstances made me melancholy. We learn in the opening pages that Mark, Paige’s father, is deceased, and all we experience of him is through the perceptions of other characters. Perhaps he found great happiness in his life, but I felt he deserved more. Even so, that I cared so much for him is a tribute to Hammer’s writing. Bottom line, this is a well-told tale about the meaning of family and the ways we seek to define ourselves in this world, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I received an advance copy of, Little Pieces of Me, by Alison Hammer. I really wanted to like this book, but I could not. It was boring. It could of been so much better.

Alison Hammer is now a go to author for me, I will read anything she writes. This book was amazing. My heart was ripped out crying one minute and laughing the next. I was enthralled with every character. I felt every emotion that Paige did, she was so real.
I loved the freshness and the realness of this story- it's not like everything else I'm reading right now.
I would love to see this story continue though- so much more needs to happen.
Thanks to Netgalley for my advanced ebook copy.
Add this to your TBR for April 2021!!

Excellent story about family, friendships, promises kept and secrets. I love all the characters. Paige and her mom’s relationship is totally believable as are the skeletons in the closet storyline. Also enjoyable is the way the book jumps from then to now telling the stories of two women, their fabulous friends and the life choices that we make. Well done!