Blessed Nowhere

I really enjoyed this book. I can’t wait for publication day so I can recommend it to all my fellow readers. Pick this one up. You will not be disappointed.

Oh my heart with this story! I just fell into this book the first chapter. Her story was just so touching. I loved the adventure this book took the reader on! Such a fun book!

This novel deals with grief, specifically the grief of a young mother who loses her kid in an accident. This is not a topic I am especially sensitive to, but I know some readers might be, so you might want to consider this before reading this novel. After a while trying and failing to get her life back together after the death of Joseph, her son, she ends up traveling from Canada, where she's originally from, to a seemingly desolate town in Mexico.

It took me a while to get through this book. I took hour-long and even day-long pauses because it is dense. The mood is generally sad, which obviously is expected, given the subject matter. Something that helps going through it and actually enjoying it even if it's a heavy read is the cinematographic language. It felt like watching a movie or a show. I recommend reading this novel, but doing so slowly, taking your time to process.

Thank you Netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

This book was truly touching, and I could not put it down. It read incredibly cinematically, where I felt like I was watching what I read. A woman loses her son tragically, and gives up everything, and just moves to a small town in Mexico. This one is going to stay with me for weeks.

A beautiful book, heartbreaking story. Kind of stream of consciousness writing..... drifting, dawdling, meandering. But it's beautiful writing. The only thing I did not like about the book was the main character. She was 90% unlikeable to me, regardless of her situation and what happened to her. I feel she wouldn't be likeable even if that had NOT happened to her.

But besides her, this is an engaging story, captivating scenery, and beautiful book.

I liked this book! I think the main character was hard to like and to root for. She was going through a lot. The beautiful sceneries were well described, but the format of the book was a bit hard to get through on the NetGalley app. I wish it was on the kindle app to be easier to read and navigate.

Thank you to NetGalley, to the author, and to the publisher for this complementary ARC in exchange for my honest review!!!

This book was heartbreaking. The feelings that Abby experienced just bled off the pages into the world. The random bursts of grief, catharsis, everything was so visceral. The other characters were equally as interesting and the book still left the reader wanting more even though it was just so hard to read.

Thank you NetGalley and Guernica for a copy of this book.