Book #122 |
Book: The Heart of Everything | Author: Marc Levy | |
| Source: Free First Reads download Format: Kindle |
Pages: 205 | Duration: 12/05/25 – 12/06/25 (2 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: fiction, magical realism, suspense, family, love, romance | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Son’s father’s ghost visits with a haunting, time-limited, compelling request. 🖌6-word review: Sweetly told tale with likable characters. |
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| 💭A memorable quote: “An adult is just a child with debt.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: Škoda, vetiver, jute, Arsène Lupin | |||
| Description:* There’s nothing too unusual about a father asking his son for a favor — unless, of course, the father in question has been dead for five years. Thomas, a young virtuoso pianist living a quiet, carefully structured life in France, is stunned when his late father, Raymond, suddenly appears in his home. He’s not a ghost in the traditional sense — he’s real enough to ask for help. His request? That Thomas travel with him to San Francisco to find Camille, the long-lost love of his life. For Thomas, it’s as surreal as it sounds. And yet… it might be his last-in-a-lifetime chance to know his father as a man and to square the regrets of the past. Together they embark on a five-thousand-mile journey that questions the very nature of existence, proves that love never fades, and rekindles the curious, heart-tugging bond between a parent and child that somehow endures beyond death.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: This is a brand new book that isn’t scheduled to be published until January of 2026, but it was one of Amazon Prime’s December First Reads selections. I’m not a fan of the magical realism genre, but maybe because it was just one ghost, with not a lot of back story about how his appearance happened and “rules of engagement” with the entity, it didn’t bother me. I could have done without the word “conspiratorial” rearing its ugly head early in the book. I thought it was a sweet, little story. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
