Thursday, October 12, 2023

Review: The Fifth Avenue Story Society by Rachel Hauck

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Released: Feb. 4, 2020
378 pages
About the Book:

An invitation to join The Fifth Avenue Story Society gives five New York strangers a chance to rewrite their own stories.

Executive assistant Lexa is eager for a much-deserved promotion, but her boss is determined to keep her underemployed.

Literature professor Jett is dealing with a broken heart, as well as a nagging suspicion his literary idol, Gordon Phipps Roth, might be a fraud.

Uber driver Chuck just wants a second chance with his kids.

Aging widower Ed is eager to write the true story of his incredible marriage.

Coral, queen of the cosmetics industry, has broken her engagement and is on the verge of losing her great grandmother’s multimillion-dollar empire.

When all five New Yorkers receive an anonymous, mysterious invitation to the Fifth Avenue Story Society, they suspect they’re victims of a practical joke. No one knows who sent the invitations or why. No one has heard of the literary society. And no one is prepared to reveal their deepest secrets to a roomful of strangers.

Yet curiosity and loneliness bring them back week after week to the old library. And it’s there they discover the stories of their hearts, and the kind of friendship and love that heals their souls. 


My Rating & Thoughts:    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐


This was a reread for me and I was invested in the characters this time through just as much as I was the first time.

The book starts out by introducing the reader to five separate characters. Each character has their own storyline and are strangers to one another with the exception of two (who have a strained past). They each receive a mysterious invite to the story society. No one know who sent the invite or why them. I loved that the story was told through each character's point of view, this allowed me to really get to know them, and it was easy to follow the switch between points of view. I enjoyed each one of the characters and was invested in getting to know them and see them embrace this friendship opportunity. Each character comes from a different background and age group, but a friendship is formed during their Monday night meetings and impacts their everyday lives. The healing that these individuals go through as they learned to open up, be vulnerable, and grow was inspiring. I recommend this book.

Favourite Quote: 
“If we love when it's easy, it's of no credit to us. Anyone can love when it's easy. But if we love when it's hard, then we are all the better. We gain what we cannot see.”
(I purchased my copy of this book; opinions expressed 
in this review are my honest opinion and completely my own.)

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