I loved this book! I'd been in a total reading slump before I started this one, and I'd DNF'd like three books in a row... but when I opened Rachel WeI loved this book! I'd been in a total reading slump before I started this one, and I'd DNF'd like three books in a row... but when I opened Rachel Weiss's Group Chat, I immediately found myself sucked in by the engaging voice of the main character, Rachel. She's confident and fun, but she's approaching thirty and hasn't quite figured out what she wants in life in terms of career or love. Her group text chat with her three best friends is her lifeline... until even her friend group begins to fall apart.
This book is marketed as a rom-com, and I was absolutely rooting for the love story and laughing out loud at many parts, but I think it could also be classified as a coming-of-age story, because it's about so much more than boy-meets-girl. If you're looking for a romance that will also make you think, definitely pick this one up. ...more
I was immediately sucked into this gripping story, a dual timeline with multiple POVs that centers around the real-life disappearance of thousands of I was immediately sucked into this gripping story, a dual timeline with multiple POVs that centers around the real-life disappearance of thousands of young men and women during the Argentinian military dictatorship of the 1970s. The story begins in the point of view of Lorena, a young mother struggling agains the confines of her role as a housewife, who is taken by the military in the middle of the night and forced to leave her young son behind in the care of her mother Esme, who never stops searching for her.
Meanwhile, three decades later, we are introduced to the character of Rachel, an adoptee who grew up hearing the story of how she was abandoned as a baby outside an adoption center in Virginia — but learns that the truth about her adoption is far more complicated and may tear apart her family.
This is a rich, layered story that digs deep into the question of what it means to be a family. I appreciated that even the characters who make truly unforgivable decisions are portrayed as three-dimensional, and we can understand their intentions even as we condemn their actions. I was fully invested in the plot and characters, and I look forward to reading what Rebecca J. Sanford writes next....more
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