By Taylor Jenkins Reid Forever, Interrupted

Reading this immediately after Under The Whispering Door was a mistake. Directly compared, Forever Interruped fell flat and felt flat. I don't know exactly why.

On its own, it is a nice little story about love, loss, and recovery, and I think my issue with it is that it's only nice. It's not breathtaking, neither in the Love nor in the Loss sections. I didn't care enough about Ben to mourn him alongside Elsie. I didn't even know Elsie enough to mourn for her loss. Maybe it's different for readers currently battling grief, but I didn't really find into the story to emotionally connect to it.

I rarely read chick lit, but this one was pretty good.

Elsie Porter loses her new husband, Ben, after only nine days of marriage. A whirlwind, six-month romance culminating in a romantic elopement, Elsie is left to pick up the pieces and find a way to move on while faced with meeting her new mother-in-law for the first time after the accident. It's a story of grief, a story of growth, and a story of finding your way through it all.