I'm a Katherine Center fangirl so I knew I was going to enjoy this. I don't have any prior knowledge of face blindness nor have I read a character with it, so I was invested in navigating this journey with Sadie. Center does a great job of balancing Sadie's self-discovery and the romance. This was such an easy read which it was I desperately needed. I am looking forward to Center's next release.

This book was so refreshing. The miscommunication that caused the breakup was completely believable given the circumstances. I really enjoyed the look into what face blindness looks like for someone. The characters were relatable and I found them to be enjoyable as well.

As always this was adorable and hilarious. The characters were lovable and the story immersive. I’m so excited for the next book by Katherine Center!

Hello Stranger was my second Katherine Center book and it was absolutely adorable. If you’re interested in the concept of face blindness and like a cute and clean romance, you’d probably love this!

Also, I can’t get over how cute this cover is 😍😍😍

I am not sure Katherine Center’s books are for me but that is okay!! Strong character development but I personally prefer my romances with a bit more spice! I did love the Bodyguard and this one was not quite there but I am still going to look out for Center’s next books. Thanks for letting me read this one early

I have yet to read a bad Katherine Center title, or even one that was not a very good read. Hello Sttranger sets the reader right in the middle of the best and worst moments of Sadie's life. With everything she knows and loves threatened by a condition that may or may not be correctable, the characters surrounding her will force her to face the possibilities head on, while she'll discover that her life before and her life after do not have to be dramatically different to be wonderful.

Katherine Center never fails to leave me with a warm and fuzzy feeling in my heart and a smile on my face! While this was not my favorite from her, it was a quick and light read with a loveable love interest. Center will always be an auto-buy author for me!

This is the perfect book to go into BLIND as can be. I loved everything about this, and the characters and their chemistry were outstanding. I even appreciated the author's notes at the end, and I hardly ever read them! This was a very poignant and beautiful story, and I am so glad I read it.

The author did a great job incorporating a rather serious illness with the light hearted nature of the story. This book reminded me of why I started reading this author.

I love all of Katherine Center's books but especially this one. The twist at the end was surprising and the subject brings light to a condition I have never heard of before. Highly recommend.

Ughh Katherine is so so good!! One of my favorite feel good authors. I can always trust her books to not hurt me. Whenever my anxiety is too high to deal with things, I turn to her books to distract me. This new one is no different! What an incredible and different concept for a love story.

Sadie, a strangling artist, who also doesn’t have the emotional support for this career from her father, and her mother has since passed away. I find a lot of relatability there. As an artist myself, on top of all of that, I couldn’t imagine then losing my eyesight without even a little clue it was coming.

After she’s saved in the middle of the street by a Good Samaritan, she had surgery and when she wakes up she’s unable to see people’s faces. Everyone looks like a stranger to her. At the same time she becomes a finalist in a prestigious portrait contest.

I loved the representation for a disorder I didn’t even know existed. And the twist was perfection.

Sadie, a budding portrait artist, catapults into the art scene with a promising entry in a prestigious show. However, her dreams shatter when a sudden collapse leads to brain surgery, leaving her with face blindness. A portrait artist now struggling to recognize faces, Sadie grapples with the looming contest, familial tensions with her (evil) step-sister Parker, disappointed father, and an unexpected love interest. In the chaos, she must confront her altered reality and decide whether to embrace the challenges or forfeit the opportunities that have unfolded before her.

I'm a huge fan of Katherine Center, but if you haven't read "The Bodyguard," I would start there! It's still my favorite of her works!

4.5

“I guess that’s the great thing about life; it gives you chance after chance to rethink it all.”

This book had such a unique concept, face blindness. I have only read one other book that hits on this topic but it was nowhere near this. The way the story was written, weaved and then layered was fantastic.

I mostly enjoyed Sadie's character, she was relatable to me only in the way she was always in her head reaching for conclusions, even if they didn't quite make sense. Joe's character was a bit off putting at first but eventually grew on me.

While the 'twists' and reveals were so predictable (saw it coming from the beginning) I think the center of the book was on learning to love yourself where you're at and through your journey. The way you can be free to love someone else more solidly when you have a foundation of self love to pull from.

What I didn't like - the best friend dynamic; I didn't understand how Sadie's best friend, someone you are supposed to be closer to than anyone else, could continuously forget about all the stuff she was facing and be so flippant about it.

Hope. This fills you up with it - I think it's been a theme for me lately. August = Hope

This is a book that isn't driven by plot or characters but a blend of the two delivering a story that is entertaining but also emotionally captivating.

I always forget Katherine Center is fade to black and pretty tame and I kept trying to fall into this book but it just wasn’t for me.

This is the 5th book I've read by K.C. and she doesn't disappoint. While I found this one pretty predictable, I think that was the point. We know who the people are (or suspect) but Sadie doesn't. She only has certain ways to tell who a person is and she keeps those tells in a box. Sadie's character development after her surgery is huge, and i love watching her character grow -- especially when she begins to accept Lucinda. Like she's not the greatest but she's not a monster.

But Parker - I don't know how you redeem someone like that.
Joe & Oliver - I have all the heart eyes.

4⭐️

<b>It takes a certain kind of courage to be brave in love. A courage you can only get better at through practice.</i>

Sadie’s just gotten the news that she’s placed top 10 in a portrait painting competition, and when grabbing wine to celebrate, has a non-convulsive seizure in a crosswalk and is saved by a good samaritan from oncoming traffic. Sadie learns that the seizure was caused by a malformed blood vessel in her brain, and needs brain surgery. After the surgery, Sadie finds that she isn’t able to see faces of even the people she knows best, and learns that the swelling in her brain is causing face blindness. Sadie must learn how to navigate her life without being able to see faces as a portrait artist, and how to ask for help, and fall in love.

This book was really cute and unique!!! The humor in it is great, and I really love all of the characters. I don’t think I’ve read anything quite like it.

The love stories in Katherine Center's books will draw you in completely and thoroughly. You'll feel the highs and lows, the frustrations, the embarrassments, the hurts, and the happiness. Her loves stories are all-encompassing for me, once I start reading there is not much that can make me stop. In Hello Stranger, I could particularly identify with feeling like you aren't where you want to be in life, feeling like everything is going wrong, and especially Sadie's love and protectiveness of her dog Peanut. I thought the misunderstanding with the love interest was a bit unbelievable at first, but then again I've never experienced being face blind. It also made me think of how many little details that could add up to an answer or an understanding, but I usually only put them together in hindsight. It's been one of my favorites of Katherine Center's books and is totally worth the read.

Love, love, love this! Katherine Center was not on my radar until recently and now I want to go back and read her entire backlog! Hello Stranger was so interesting with the topic of facial blindness -- very unlike anything I have read before.

This was requested when I first found out about NetGalley and I had requested so many ARCs that I could not get to all of them before they were archived. I really wanted to get to this one, as it seemed interesting. If I can find this somewhere for a reasonable price, I will try to get it! I am giving this book three stars, as I don't want to give it a good or bad rating, since I did not get to it.

I haven’t read a book in years that had the spunk this one does. Part of the reveal at the end was predictable but I enjoyed the slow burn romance really had a lot going for it