Kenna served five years in prison for a mistake she has lived with every single day. Now, she has returned to the town where she was living, in hopes she might be able to see her four-year-old daughter, Diem (as in Carpe...). But since the girl’s grandparents terminated Kenna’s parenting rights, does she even have a shot?
When she arrives in town, lonely, depressed, and broke, she meets Ledger. He is handsome and kind, and they have an immediate, intense connection. And then he realizes who Kenna is and why she has returned to town.
“…moments like these remind me that happiness isn’t some permanent thing we’re all trying to achieve in life, it’s merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going.”
Ledger is the only link to her daughter. He loves Diem fiercely. While he wishes Kenna would leave again, he can’t ignore the feelings he has for her. The more he gets to know her, the more he realizes that she isn’t the monster everyone believes she is, and maybe Diem deserves to get to know her mother. But if Ledger’s connection to Kenna is discovered, it could jeopardize his own relationship with Diem as well.
Hoover could write her grocery list and I would eagerly devour it—and it would probably make me cry. So many of her books deal with the question of who deserves a second chance, or whether a mistake makes us truly a bad person who cannot be redeemed. Her books are so thought-provoking, so emotionally engulfing, and I am there for every single one of them. (If all you've read of her books are Verity and/or Layla, you don't know what you've been missing.)
I had been waiting for Reminders of Him and it lived up to every single one of my expectations and then some! I am team #CoHo all the way!
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