Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Review: The Bridge by Karen Kingsbury

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Howard Books
Released: October 23, 2012
228 pages
About the Book:

Molly Allen lives alone in Portland, but she left her heart back in Tennessee with a man she walked away from five years ago. They had a rare sort of love she hasn’t found since.

Ryan Kelly lives in Nashville after a broken engagement and several years on the road touring with a country music duo. He can still hear Molly’s voice encouraging him to follow his dreams; Molly, whose memory stays with him. At least he can visit The Bridge—the oldest bookstore in historic downtown Franklin—and remember the hours he and Molly once spent there.

For thirty years, Charlie and Donna Barton have run The Bridge, providing the people of middle Tennessee with coffee, conversation, and shelves of good books—even through dismal book sales and the rise of digital books. Then in May, the hundred-year flood swept through Franklin and destroyed nearly every book in the store.

Now the bank is pulling the lease on The Bridge. Despondent and without answers, Charlie considers the unthinkable. Then tragedy strikes, and suddenly, everything changes. In the face of desperate brokenness and lost opportunities, could the miracle of a second chance actually unfold?

My Rating & Thoughts:    

Both heartwarming and heartbreaking. It was the two male characters that really captured my heart. Charlie has been through some tough stuff, but has never wavered in his faith in God and has spent years sharing his heart with the customer's of The Bridge. Now he has hit hard times and tries to stay positive for his wife, Donna, but things look bleak, what will happen? Ryan spent a lot of time at The Bridge 7 years ago with a fellow college student, Molly. His heart was broken when she returned home but what happens when they reconnect? I did not like the lack of communication and the act of deceit that happened. Story ended with happily ever after.

(I received this book as a gift from a friend; opinions expressed 
in this review are my honest opinion and completely my own.)

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