What I Didn't Say by Jade Beer

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What I Didn't Say by Jade Beer

From GoodReads:
'An unforgettable page-turner that will leave you heartbroken... captivating and flawless... will leave you sobbing… grabbed my attention from the start and I could not put it down!’ Goodreads reviewer
If you could wish one thing for your daughter, what would it be?
Jenny lost her beloved mother as a teenager. As a parting gift her mother left a bundle of letters, one for each significant day of Jenny’s future. First date, first broken heart, wedding day, when she becomes a mother…
But now Jenny is in her late twenties, and while at the hospital where she works she helps other women start families every day, she still hasn’t opened the letter for the day she meets the love of her life, let alone the one for having a baby.
And Jenny is still writing back:
I’m sorry I don’t love cycling.
I’m sorry I don’t always dream about you.
I’m sorry the last thing I whispered in your ear was, ‘can I stay up late?’ when it should have been ‘I love you’.
When a case of mistaken identity leads to an unexpected friendship with Helen, a kindly shopkeeper in her fifties, the bond growing between them makes Jenny wonder: she treasures her mother’s words more than anything, but are they keeping her stuck in the past?
Can we ever heal from a loss that cuts so deep? Can Jenny find a way to let go, and start living life to the full, as her mother truly wanted?

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Alright, this book wasn't per say a bad book, I did enjoy reading it but if you read the above and then start reading the book and then notice that it's told from one just Jenny's POV but from 3 other different people, one is the a person that Jenny makes a connection with and forms more like a mother bond with, while the other POV is this person's daughter and the other someone that mother and daughter know among themselves.  Yeah, it is a little confusing at first, not going to lie, but you get into the story line and go along with it.

Jenny lost her own mother while she was still a teenager and she seems to not have moved on from it.  Her mother because passing away from letters for the most important days of her live, like getting married, or having a baby.  But Jenny has a problem and opens the letters more like when she needs her mother than when will those letters on those days.  She is on her late twenties, is a midwife and loves her job, the only problem?  She is not married and doesn't have any kids, she is depressed and starts to really hate that.  One day, one innocent incident happens that converts into a lie that becomes bigger has the days and weeks go by and she doesn't know how to stop until it's too late.

Helen, owns a couple bridal shops and nothing makes her happier than to help brides.  She has lost her husband a few years ago and she doesn't know how to move past that stage.  She thought that her daughter would be leaning on her for everything but now a days it seems that both of them are growing apart, she is feeling lonely more and more.

Betsy is Helen's daughter is she is just as lost as Jenny and Helen but on a totally different way.  She has a great job that she loves and strives to improve even more.  But she is engaged and even though she is suppose to get married in a few months she's further from wanting to planning the wedding or to get married.  She has fallen out of love from her fiancée and doesn't know how to break the news to him or her mother, she doesn't know who is the worst.  And to make things worst, she is falling for her boss hard.

And then we have Nat, who is a bridesmaid to rent.  Yeah, you read that right.  People rent Nat to be their bridesmaid and plan their wedding.  That's how Betsy ends up meeting Nat, but ends up forming more of a friendship with her.  And that's how Helen knows Nat her and forms a bond with her too.

And that's how complicated and entwined this book is and really different from the synopsis. But like I said it was still interesting, I personally loved Betsy's story line the best, Jenny was kind of all over the place and I really didn't like how she just kept lying to people, so that was disappointing.

Overall, 3 or 5 stars.

XOXO,

Nelia