Congratulation Katherine
on the recent release of
Hello Stranger!
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
Contemporary Romance, 336 pages
Published July 11, 2023 by St. Martin's Press
Love isn’t blind, it’s just little blurry.
Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Literally! One minute she’s celebrating the biggest achievement of her life—placing as a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition—the next, she’s lying in a hospital bed diagnosed with a “probably temporary” condition known as face blindness. She can see, but every face she looks at is now a jumbled puzzle of disconnected features. Imagine trying to read a book upside down and in another language. This is Sadie’s new reality with every face she sees.
But, as she struggles to cope, hang on to her artistic dream, work through major family issues, and take care of her beloved dog, Peanut, she falls into—love? Lust? A temporary obsession to distract from the real problems in her life?—with not one man but two very different ones. The timing couldn’t be worse.
If only her life were a little more in focus, Sadie might be able to find her way. But perceiving anything clearly right now seems impossible. Even though there are things we can only find when we aren’t looking. And there are people who show up when we least expect them. And there are always, always other ways of seeing.
My thoughts about Hello Stranger ~~
(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first lines.)
First lines—"The first person I called after I found out I'd placed in the North American Portrait Society's huge career-making yearly contest was my dad."
I have loved each and every one of Katherine Center's books. This one just might be my new favorite.
I love how she took the medical issue of face blindness and created someone's whole life around it. I had heard of face blindness but knew very, very little about it. It is fascinating to realize how much of a person's life is based on recognizing people by their faces. Katherine fashioned Sadie's life, both before and after face blindness, and allowed us to see how life changed for her.
Hello Stranger is a fun, delightful, and yes, sometimes serious story full of fantastic characters with a nice little twist to it. I enjoyed it so much and as always with this author's books, I loved getting lost in her made-up world and didn't want to leave. If you are a fan of Katherine Center's books, you are going to love this one.
I received a copy of Hello Stanger from the publisher via NetGalley and this is my honest opinion.
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About the author
BookPage calls Katherine Center “the reigning queen of comfort reads.” She's the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including How to Walk Away, Things You Save in a Fire, and What You Wish For. Her summer 2022 book is The Bodyguard. The movie adaptation of her novel The Lost Husband (starring Josh Duhamel) hit #1 on Netflix, and her novel Happiness for Beginners is in production as a Netflix original movie (starring Ellie Kemper and Luke Grimes) right now.
Katherine writes laugh-and-cry books about how life knocks us down—and how we get back up. She’s been compared to both Jane Austen and Nora Ephron, and the Dallas Morning News calls her stories, “satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way.” Her books have made countless Best-Of lists, including RealSimple’s Best Books of 2020, Amazon's Top 100 Books of 2019, Goodreads' Best Books of the Year, the Indie Next Great Reads List, and many more.
Katherine lives in her hometown of Houston, Texas, with her husband, two kids, and their fluffy-but-fierce dog. ~ Goodreads
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