This book was an unusual book of one woman’s self discovery. While the Mothman aspect was interesting I also found it distracting at times. I felt the narrator did a wonderful job pulling the listener into the story. Thank you Harper Muse Audiobooks and Net Galley for the advanced copy of the audiobook.

Susan Coll is a new to me author and she writes in a way that makes me feel like I'm reading the stories of a friend. Very familiar in the way she weaves a story and I felt connected to the way the story gave insights to her past intersecting with her present. The main characters interactions with her family members reminded me of conversations I've had with my own family (lots of stuff you just don't talk about).
Her husband was a piece of work and I like that she had finally chosen her own happiness.
Over all this was a good story (albeit a little long) and I enjoyed most of it. The cover doesn't really give you the impression that it's going to be a woman's fiction novel... it seems like it's going to be more lighthearted but after I realized this... I enjoyed the book.
Thanks for the ALC from NetGalley

This is one of those contemporary novels where the plot is a lot of talking, recalling, and regular stuff, mixed in with a cool urban legend (?). Or is it just a legend????

I requested this one simply because I saw Mothman. As a child of the 70s/80s where every Big Foot, Mothman, Jersey Devil movie was consumed like manna, I was all in. The bonus for me is the main character lives in a place where I lived for 20 years in Maryland so the references hit my memory bank AND I retired to the hills of West Virginia and our isolated acreage is where, for sure, the legend continues.

I just adored this audio arc. I loved Cassie who, in her 50s is searching for her history. I loved the people she met along the way. I loved the history (yes, in fact, the bridge in Point Pleasant did crumble), along with the legend of Mothman.

I enjoyed this book so much that I started listening in the morning and my earbuds stayed in all day. I hopped on my treadmill a ton of times because I needed to be up and moving while the story was told to me. Then it added. And, even at 10 hours, it felt too soon.

Off to discover more of Susan Coll's catalogue.

The dialogue at times was awkward and the "mystery" of the main character's past is very obvious from the beginning. I loved the self discovery and character development the main character goes through. I enjoyed the narrator of this novel.

Great story. Very interesting. The self discovery while also uncovering the past kept it interesting especially with the mythical kind of element surrounding the death of her parents.
It was intriguing.

Three stars only because the last one hour the author spelled out all the answers to the questions the book never gave me.

The protagonist finds out her useless and boring husband whom she has lived in seperate parts of the house with has cheated on her with a friend. She goes on a road trip to the place where her parents die in a mysterious accident and gets snowed in.
The real mystery of this book were why the husband cheated with the friend in the marriage bed they haven't shared in forever. He lives in the basement!

I apologize to the fans of this book, but I was bored. I hiked it up to 3x just to get through it. Too little happened for the first 80 percent to hook me in.

Thank you to the publisher for this advanced copy of this book in audiobook form in exchange for my honest review

An OUTSTANDING second chance, dual POV, romance debut that sees two former high school flames reconnecting at their high school reunion and making a bet on whether true love and soulmates exist and on the fate of the relationships of four of their couple friends as well as whether they will ever find a chance to make it work together.

Lots of missed timing, hurt feelings and a story that takes place over a number of years, including before, during and after the pandemic, this book was unputdownable and really great on audio narrated by Christine Larkin and Tim Paige. 10/10 recommend and I cannot wait to read more by this author! Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early audio copy in exchange for my honest review.

Steam level: a couple hot open door scenes