I picked up The Year of Second Chances by Lara Avery on a whim at the library. The blurb sounding in intriguing: I read the words on my laptop screen, "Before you freak out, it's really me."
Robin Lindstrom is reading an email from her dead husband, Gabe, who signed her up for a dating app a year after he died. She's thirty three years old and has been hibernating at their old Minnesota farmhouse.
She gives the dating world a whirl, opens up her heart to some strangers, makes some weird friends, learns to trust the world, and still loves Gabe with all her soul. However, she knows she won't lose him. She'll gain more in life too.
This book is funny and poignant and Avery captures the horror of dating again, and also the opportunities to engage with others. Can Robin emerge from her cocoon to rediscover all the messy, wonderful, horrible things in life?
Take a chance and read this book to find out.
