A Love Letter to Whiskey - Kandi Steiner
This book hit it out of the park with the feeling of your world revolving around someone else, of being caught up and utterly lost in them. I was able to identify immediately, reminded of how I've obsessed about people in my life, and this book but it perfectly into words. It was deep and relatable and gorgeous, and I was swept up in B & Jamie's story. I loved that they were always slightly out of reach, so we were never able to get bored, and we just wanted them to be together even more. The way Jamie was written as a whiskey addiction was captivating and all consuming, and the fact that there were only a few love scenes made them all the more powerful and palpable.
What I didn't like was the reasoning that kept them apart. If I were B, I wouldn't have let anything stand in the way of love, especially when she knew that Jamie loved her as well. That part was frustrating, and I would have appreciated a bigger force keeping them apart.
Jamie's POV helped to understand what was going on in his world, but I didn't find him nearly as irresistible when he was narrating as when B was narrating. Maybe because when I knew everything about him, he seemed more of just a regular guy instead of a mysterious, confident love interest. But it was cool seeing into his head, too. Funnily enough, my physical imagining of him changed when B talked about him and when he talked about himself.
(SEMI-SPOILER) I heard that this book had a controversial ending, and I thought that that meant they wouldn't be together at the end, which I was delighted about, since I'd love to see a deep, heart-wrenching, realistic romance where there's no HEA. I have yet to see that (where they're both alive, not when one of them dies but they're still in love, but a book where they can't be together cause one really is toxic. I'd loooooove that). I was still happy when they got together, cause I also didn't want them to suffer. So it was a good ending, even though it was different from what I was expecting.
But like I said, my favourite thing about it was the way B described Jamie and how she was so obsessed with him. It was so real, and I really felt it. I haven't felt that much reading a book in a long time.
Book: A Love Letter to Whiskey by Kandi Steiner