Published by Random House - Ballantine Genres: Contempory, Fiction, LGBT, Romance, thriller
Format: ARC, eBook
Do overs, new beginnings, and young love.
Olivia McAfee moved back to her hometown with her son, Asher, after leaving her husband. Never in her wildest dreams did she think that she would be back and running her father’s beekeeping business. But it has given her a chance for a new beginning.
Lily Campanello is a teenager who is starting over after moving to Adams, New Hampshire to finish her final year of high school. She is hoping that this new beginning will give her a chance to start over.
Lily and Asher meet, and Lily is happy, but their relationship has its ups and downs and is not always pleasant. Then Olivia is informed that Lily is dead, and her son Asher is being held by the police for questioning.
Whew! Picoult and Boylan have written a thought provoking, moving and captivating tale about secrets, the past, starting over, love and being yourself.
Picoult and Boylan obviously did a lot of research or maybe one of them (or both) keep bees. Either way, readers will learn a lot about beekeeping amongst other things in this book that I will not give away. This book is relevant and packs a punch.
With all Picoult’s books this was well written and thought out. I also did not see the reveal coming! I had my theories and did not get it right. But I love being surprised and the authors pulled it off.
Thank you to Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.