3.0
Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe
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Upon learning that her college sweetheart husband has been seeing another woman, Mira Serafino’s once perfect world is shattered and she wants no one, least of all her big Italian family, to know.
She takes off—with no destination and little money—heading north until her car breaks down in Seattle. There she takes a job at the offbeat Coffee Shop at the Center of the Universe, where she’ll experience a terrifying but invigorating freedom, and meet someone she’ll come to love: the new Mira.
She takes off—with no destination and little money—heading north until her car breaks down in Seattle. There she takes a job at the offbeat Coffee Shop at the Center of the Universe, where she’ll experience a terrifying but invigorating freedom, and meet someone she’ll come to love: the new Mira.
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3.0
“I wanted to like this book, and possibly if the formatting had been better on the Kindle, I would have, but the abrupt flash-backs (with not even a blank line between that and current time) drove me crazy. I didn't finish it, and I usually give a book like that only one-star, but the prose was lovely, and the story has potential. So I gave it three-stars.”
“I'm so torn on this book because I wanted to DNF if for at least the first half, but I also wanted to see how it ended.
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This MC is the most narcissistic abusive MC I may have ever read. She spends the first 4 chapters talking about how great her husband is and how she knows she mistreats him yet she doesnt change her behavior then wonders why her daughter hates her and husband falls out of love with her.
She abandons her entire family and social circle because she imagined an affair that probably didnt happen without so much as a conversation with her beloved husband on 20+ years who she claims she trusts. Then we find out she did way worse than that to him in the past. Has an affair the first night she leaves, and has a full relationship and many more fantasy "affairs" as she tries to "reinvent herself" in another city. This woman is delusional and spontaneous at worst, or abusive and narcissistic at best. She judges everyone she meets so harshly without an ounce of empathy or understanding but then for some reason backpedals every time as if the reader is judging her for being horrible, which we should be!
The amount of reviews treating this book as if the MC is just sad and lost dont seem to ever consider how her actions impact those she claims to "love" .
Part of me wishes I did dnf it, maybe I'd have avoided this slump. But the writing is engaging, the author does have talent but the story is frustrating and the ending proves my point. The MC never had to be vulnerable to get her family back, she always sees herself as the victim and this BS "we can start a new life together and ride off into the sunset" ending proves it.
1.5 stars for good writing and the ability to keep me somewhat hooked even when I hated everything about the story.”
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