STILL FALLING FOR YOU by Holly Miller

3.5* Couldn't warm to the leads, nor really suspend disbelief quite enough to buy the premise of the tale.

So, in order to believe this tale, you have to suspend disbelief in a big way. I'd been thinking 'cryogenics!!' but it was both simpler and yet far more complicated. Once that was out of the way, there were niggles, still, but I wanted to see if it was a love story and what would happen. I'd have liked to know what Wilf told his partner at the end of the tale, as that was a potential for cheating if he didn't confess. 

I'm not sure I liked the leads, though I understood Josh's fears. We never know if they were unfounded or not, but the author redeemed him in the ending, which I didn't see coming, and which, SPOILER.....




... involves cheating. Not sure that worked for me, because both leads moved on really quickly after their split, despite their Big Love and Rachel had her own agenda, with Lawrence simply a means to an end, it felt. And the guy she ended up with for 17 years felt like someone else who'd been 'loved' and used by her. END OF SPOILER.

How not a single person, friend, fan or Fred Bloggs, commented on Josh's lack of ageing over the 35-or-so years that the book spans, was never explained. The guy was in the public eye, had released a book that was a major hit, that took 10 years to make it to the big screen, and still no one clocked? A bit Twilight-ish, though without the constant moves to hide his lack of ageing.

The ending was both well done and sad. Very realistic and done organically. This was the only bit that made me feel for the leads. Until then, it kind of sounded like both had had enough of their own cakes and had eaten them, to have had a satisfying life with the other always on the periphery. For me, sadly, this wasn't the Big Love Story that the blurb made me think it'd be, but it was a decent read with a great cast of loyal friends. 

ARC courtesy of NetGalley and Hodder and Stoughton, for my reading pleasure. 


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