Book: Life's Too Short
Author: Abby Jimenez
Pages: 384
Thisis my 73rd read for the year
This is the story of Vanessa, a young woman who started a vlog when she discovered she might have the same disease that killed her mother, her sister, her grandmother and an Aunt - ALS. She travels the world and her videos went viral. She gives most of the money she makes to ALS research, and uses the rest to support her family.
Vanessa's world is turned upside down when her young half sister leaves her newborn daughter on Vanessa's doorstep and says she cannot take care of her. Her sister has struggled with drugs ever since their older sister died of ALS, so Vanessa stops her traveling and her vlog and tries to figure out what she is going to do with a newborn especially when her own life might be coming to an end. Enter - the handsome next door neighbor, Adrian, who offers to help knowing very little about Vanessa and about her life expectancy. Now Vanessa - who vowed to never fall in love, never get attached, is struggling with both. She is now hoping for a future she may never see and for things she can possibly never have.
This book would be the perfect Hallmark Christmas movie. Not only does it start out in December right before Christmas, it moves along as the best of those cheesy movies always do. Everything falls into place and what to do you know.....the ending is perfect. I rolled my eyes quite a few times during this book, BUT then I remembered that I do love those cheesy Hallmakr Christmas movies. It is sweet and Adrian is of course perfect. Vanessa a hero. The baby - a charmer. Everything unrealisticly resolved. Everyone is rich.
This is the lightest of the lightest reads and honestly - I think that is why I stuck with it. Sometimes you have to read cheesy, predictable books when you are in the middle of a pandemic. I can recommend it for that. If you want a silly, predictable, perfect ending read - this book is most definitely for you. Great literature it is NOT. But fun - yes.
Stars: 3
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