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5 heartwarming stars

This book was a wonderful surprise! I really connected with the main character, April Sawicki, and my heart broke for her several times throughout the book. I rooted for her to finally find her “family�� and stay put and find the people to keep.

April really had some tough cards dealt to her, abandoned at an early age by her mother and later by her father, she’s essentially living on her own at 16 in a ramshackle motorhome. Her closest friend is the owner of Margo’s Diner, one of her dad’s old girlfriends. She does have her music and she’s an amazing songwriter.

Fed up with her father and the small town of Little River, New York, she hits the road in a “borrowed�� car. She lands in Ithaca and finds a coffeeshop job and begins to make friends and play some gigs. She really settles in, but then life throws her another curve ball, and she decides to skip town again, leaving all her new friends behind.

April has a vagabond lifestyle, knowing which coffee shops and bars will host her for an evening or two and then she moves on again, never really setting down roots. Her music really takes off though and she’s able to make a living. She is still searching for her people, but restless enough to keep moving.

This one does have a heartwarming ending that mostly healed my broken heart! It was fun to read the lyrics to her songs in the book and imagine the soundtrack.

It made for a fantastic buddy read and I’m so glad that Jayme suggested it!

Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery Books for the early copy of this one to read.