We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes – Audio
ARC from PRH audio, Pamela Dorman and Netgalley for an honest review
Book Blurb:
Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad—a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago—suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach about love, and what it actually means to be family.
My Review: 3.75 stars
We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes is a contemporary romance that was entertaining and was also focused on family, both lost and found.
Lila is a one-dimensional character that certainly has a full plate, but boy, she had to learn, grow and adapt based on her family situation. Her daughters were adjusting to a broken home and trying to rearrange their expectations of how their lives would change. When their estranged grandfather shows up, relying on his one hit wonder of TV show fame, their home is rattled even more.
The message the book portrays is about accepting change, offering forgiveness and finding hope within the messiness of life. I enjoyed this book even with its obvious predictability. I’m glad I listened to this one because it was easy to follow and kept me entertained.
I still stand on my opinion that Me Before You was her best book to date!
Quotes I liked:
How can I be behaving like I’m fifteen when my neck is old enough to be growing an actual wattle?”
“There are periods of your life in which all that is really required is to keep putting one foot in front of the other.”
“This is life at this age, she muses, a million goodbyes, and you never know which are the final ones. You just absorb them, like little shocks, trusting with each one that you’ll be able to keep moving forward.”
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