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Searching for Tomorrow

 

Some people are blessed to find that one certain person who completes them.

 

Wrynn’s yesterdays were what others only dream of having. She and Tripp were the best of friends before they even thought about love. They had the fairy tale life where ‘like’ turns into ‘love’, and ‘love’ becomes ‘happily ever after’.

 

What happens when life conspires against you, and snatches your soul mate from your arms?

 

…only her forever love ended much too soon.

 

Broken beyond her own ability to repair, Wrynn boxes up her grief and attempts to raise her three girls the best she can on her own. As time slowly passes, Wrynn relives her life with Tripp while struggling most days to get out of bed. She is reminded of him at every turn.

 

How do you set your grief and anguish aside? How do you pick up the shattered pieces, put those pieces back together again, and try to move on?

 

Wrynn tries to find the joy in life every single day through her daughters, family, and friends. Her twin brother Liam has dedicated himself to helping Wrynn put her life back together after losing his own love. On the other hand, her mother-in-law lives to torment her at every turn. Wrynn can't even find a chance to breathe, much less a desire to somehow search for her tomorrow.

Kathryn M. Crane really hit it out of the park with her debut novel Searching for Tomorrow. After reading just the first few sentences I was completely enraptured. The writing is remarkable and evocative, the characters are enchanting and endearing and the story is beautiful and inspirational.

I loved the back and forth between past and present tenses in the telling of this story, it made the narrative much more emotional and I found myself instantly making a strong connection with the characters. The memories of the past tell a beautiful, moving story in which Wrynn and Tripp have a love that many only wish to find. The present holds a woman who is struggling to cope with the loss of her husband and find the will to carry on. It is hard not to admire Wrynn’s strength and determination while her courage and persistence is inspiring.

Michelle Tikal

 

Certain books cause your heart to pound your pulse to race, they burn into your memory and bury deep into your soul. They make your eyes water, ok they make you ugly cry or maybe that ugly cry is really tears of happiness. Maybe you read a book that causes you to laugh out loud. How about a book that is one of the most beautiful love stories ever?

I just finished a book that is all of the above. I am not even sure that my review can do it justice; words for the most part will probably escape me. I am just going to tell you how I feel. I cried for the better part of the day as I was reading. I immediately need to make contact with the author just to share how I was feeling; I needed that connection to her. Kathryn wrote this book, she is her characters and I needed her. I needed to tell her how amazing her story was making me feel. I needed to tell her that I don’t usually go for vanilla type books and how this is the exception. I had to tell her about my tears of joy and sadness and my laughter. I really hope that you all get what I am trying to say here, just how powerful of a reaction this story has left me with.

The author has us going back from present day to past as Wrynn is telling us her story of how her best friend turned into the most astonishing of love stories. Thinking of Tripp makes me smile and cry at the same time, here is a man that has no shame when it comes to his feelings for Wrynn, every look, caress and word he expresses is felt down into the deepest recesses of your body. I did not just melt but I evaporated. Tripp makes a decision that forever changes their lives and you will go through the journey with them. He made these decisions for all the right reasons and it is based on real life event for our country. I was so proud of him.

Searching for Tomorrow is not an erotic book filled with descriptive sex scenes, and there was never at any point that I needed it to be or even wanted there to be. I often visualize myself into the female character, this time I did not do that, it was not my story, not my love it was hers and I felt honored to witness it.

It is the telling of the ultimate love and the loss of that love, coping and tying to exist from day to day. One of my favorite books/movies is The Notebook; if I was asked what book I thought it was as good as, I would say that one.

Please don’t miss out on this book; you would be truly missing out on something extraordinary. I wish these characters were real, I want to reach out and touch them as they have touched me. This book is a standalone, there is no cliff hanger. Liam is getting his own book and I can’t wait.

 

Nikki T.

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