Pictures of You

Evelyn Roche (formerly Evie Hudson) wakes up after a traumatic car crash. Her husband is dead. She knows she should be sad, but she can’t remember a thing. Mentally, she’s sixteen years old again–unable to remember anything before that. She soon realizes that she’s estranged from everyone who mattered to her when she was sixteen: her parents, her best friend Bree. When on a chance encounter, she winds up in the back seat of her other high school best friend Drew, he is seemingly the only one left with any patience for Evie. Seemingly, she has no friends . . . no real life outside of her dead husband and his parents. With Drew’s help, she begins to remember. And as it turns out, her husband’s death might be exactly what she needed for a fresh start. I couldn’t put this down. I almost categorized it as a thriller but it reads more like a suspenseful contemporary romance. Kind of similar in genre to The Light We Lost (but very different!), the fact that Jill Santopolo blurbed it was one of the reasons I read it! (Without giving too much away, this book contains domestic violence and abuse.) This book is about love, loss, and second chances.