e-book , Libby library loan
Author: Katherine Center
Sadie Montgmery can’t catch a break. She just got the big news of her life, something that can help immensely with her career as a portrait artist when she’s diagnosed with a “maybe temporary” condition that has made it impossible for her to recognize faces. Face blindness, they said. She can see the features, but they are jumbled like a Picasso/Dali fusion painting. While trying to figure out her new life, she gets infatuated with not only one but two men: her womanizer neighbor and her pet’s vet.
As Sadie tries to navigate through life and learn to “see” things in a different way, we find ourselves rooting for her to see what’s literally in front of her eyes all the time,
Katherine Center has a way of writing stories with unexpected twists and turns. Sadie is a heroine you want to cheer on and her “love interests” are kind of adorable. You squeal when everything clicks and you get her HEA.
There is a subplot with her stepsister that I felt over the top and unnecessary. Parker is a Disneyesque villain and I really needed for her to get her comeuppance. Her “punishment” felt like a reward. So, nope. Surprisingly, that didn’t take away from the book at all.
Lovely, lovely story!
(Note: Very very low spice, folks!)
Rep: FMC suffers from prosopagnosia.
PT: Toxic relationship with family members, life threatening condition, hospitalization, loss of a parent (historical), severe bullying, gaslighting
