I really like Katherine Center, so was excited about another book from her.

Face blindness. I had heard about this shortly before reading this novel and was fascinated to watch it unfold in this story. Sadie Montgomery was a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition and she had one painting left to do. But in a hard twist of fate, she begins to experience face blindness. Everything seems to fall apart at the same time. She seems to be falling for two different men, she has family issues to deal with, and an important painting to create. I enjoyed watching this journey and how the story ended.

Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.

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Thank you so much to SMP and Netgalley for this one! Katherine Center was a new to me author last year I just fell in love with. I enjoyed the romance and the banter in this. Honestly the only bad part of this book was Sadie's family. Cannot wait for Center's next book, and in the meantime I will be catching up on all of her other releases.

Enjoyed the hell out of this new Katherine Center book! My introduction to her was through The Bodyguard - a charming romance but not entirely attention-grabbing for me. This one though was so fun/funny, top-to-bottom whimsical, and full of all the new-adult angst that felt so familiar, with the added stakes of a fun and, in my opinion, well-handled bout of face-blindness, just to complicate things. A great love story, a beautiful exploration of family, and an FMC it's so easy to love, even through her chaos. Absolutely recommend this read!

Thanks to NetGalley for the e-audio-arc and GoodReads for the physical arc, I was so delighted to receive both and get to enjoy the audiobook of this as well - excellently done

Katherine Center strikes again. Everything Katherine Center writes is magic.
Sadie is celebrating one of her biggest accomplishments and then she is in a hospital bed being diagnoses with face blindness. No one saw that coming! I really enjoyed learning about face blindness and how it changed Sadie's everyday life. This book is heartwarming and entertaining. I would recommend to all.

This was such an interesting premise to the story. I love how Katherine Center researched and used information about the condition in her writing. The story was told well and I was invested in the characters. I highly recommend this book!

One of my favorite authors. This was a great read. The twist was a surprise and I just loved the characters!

Katherine Center was, at one point, one of my favorite comfort reads. But her work seems to be getting more saccharine with every passing book. I want to love her, but the cheesy heavy-handed dialogue, the cringe, overstated "A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE" energy is too much.

Dear Mrs Katherine Center: I will read anything you read, anything and everything! I adored Sadie's story. The perfect amount of romance and wit from her and her best friend made even more amazing. This is my second time reading novel where the character has face blindness. I have to admit that the major twist with the guy next door but it was perfect!

I read this almost a year ago and just never wrote a review. I tend to love Katherine Center books because she writes wholesome romance. But this one was just weird for me? Some of the characters felt unnecessary and the writing just wasn’t as good as others I’ve read by her. I still enjoyed it, but not my favorite!

I am convinced that Katherine Center knows me. At least she knows what I like to read. Her latest book, Hello Stranger, entertained me and, this time, actually taught me something.
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The main character, Sadie, is a struggling portrait artist who just made finalist in a national competition. She is beginning to feel that her struggle is over when she has a seizure and wakes up suffering from face blindness. She can’t recognize even her closest friend’s face much less strangers. That isn’t good for anyone, much less someone who makes her living painting faces.
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I loved that this story shows us that love isn’t just skin deep, Sophie manages to fall in love with a man she has never really seen. I loved the premise of this book and learned a lot more about face blindness when I googled more information.
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Center’s characters are so realistic, they could live next door. I really cared for them and their outcome. There is a little twist in the story that I enjoyed a lot even though I had guessed it might be coming.

A top read of the year for me. This book was so interesting and so obviously well researched.I really loved it

I really enjoy books by this author and this was no exception. I had never read a book where the main character had facial blindness and it was really eye opening into the hardships and daily struggles one would face with that condition and how it can impact day to day living. I really enjoyed this one, recommend!

This book was a struggle for me. There was a love triangle and miscommunication trope in this, and it did not work for me. I found the main character annoying and I could not connect to her, or cheer for her as the book progressed. This book was not there for me.

I want to thank Netgalley, St. Martin's Press, and Macmillan Audio for an ARC, and advanced listening copy of this book.

This book started really slow for me. I picked it up and put it down a few times before k finally settled in to it.

I am seriously amazed at how the story was written because I myself couldn’t picture the book like I normally do. And I realized about halfway through that the h inability to see faces made me not be able to fully engage either. I was fascinated by this experience.

I loved this unique plot line and the book.
It wasn’t as good as other books I’ve read by K. Center but I would still recommend reading this.

It’s SO unique and sweet and cute.

I absolutely adore Katherine Center and this book was no exception!! I had never heard of face blindness before I read this book and I was super intrigued and I loved the way this story wove around this inability to see faces as a whole, but rather only in pieces. I found myself contemplating how that would look and wondering how off balance that would make a person. I adored Sadie's determination to not let this keep her down, I loved how she went from meeting someone to being engage, then married, then kids in the matter of seconds, and I also appreciated her friend Sue, who was her complete opposite but also the perfect best friend for her. This book had everything you are looking for in a romance, but the author's note at the end about romance books was superbly written and I found myself reading it multiple times and even out loud to my husband. Every part of this book was wonderful. This is one I wish I could read again for the first time.

Thank you so much for an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own!
Thus book was amazing. I lived both our main characters. They were well written. The plot kept my attention the entire time. Overall, I love Ms. Center's books!

Once again Katherine Center knocks it out of the park with this one. I devoured this book and cannot wait for another one by this author!

I am currently boycotting smp books and all it’s imprints untill they speak up for the racist behavior of one of it’s employees

Why did it take so long for me to get to this book on my to-read shelf? This was just a delight from beginning to end. Center has created a captivating MC in Sophie and a twisty fun romance, along with learning a lot about face blindness. (I'd be lost - I struggle with names but never forget a face!)

There is a perfectly EVIL stepsister, a disapproving father, the gut wrenching loss of their ability to create art in the face of probably the biggest opportunity of her career, love interests...it has a little bit of everything. I absolutely loved it!