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🥰Thank you to @vikingbooks for the gifted ARC!
📖Title: Day One
✍️Author: Abigail Dean
📆Pub date: March 26, 2024
📖Have you ever read a book that was extremely difficult to read because of the subject matter but that was undeniably powerful and thought-provoking?
📖A few of those books for me have been:
💔Beartown by Frederick Backman
💔Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach
💔Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
📖I’ll now add Day One by Abigail Dean to that list.
📖Had I known what this book was about before I read it, I probably would have skipped it thinking I wouldn’t be able to handle it. But this was so well done and delicately handled, I’m glad I didn’t.
📖I want to handle this review as delicately as possible and simultaneously set your expectations for this book while also not scaring you away from it.
📖From the publisher synopsis: “Stonesmere is an English seaside suburb defined by poignant traditions passed from generation to generation, and the bonds of small town community spirit. But when a lone gunman disrupts a school assembly, he sets of a chain of events that throws this close-kint town into turmoil.”
📖This book follows the perspectives of several people and how they are affected by this unthinkable tragedy. It could also accurately be described as a character study on grief. Many of these characters will be unforgettable for me.
📖While there are some shocking reveals along the way and mysterious elements, do not go into this book expecting a thriller. This is so much more than that.
📖If any of the books I listed above have had an impact on you, I’d definitely recommend reading this one.
📖This is Abigail’s second book. Her first was GIRL A which was a @bookofthemonth pick when it first came out and it’s been sitting on my shelf for years but now I REALLY want to read it!
📖Her writing really sucked me in and I can’t wait to read whatever she writes next!
📖If you have any specific questions about content, please feel free to DM me. I’m keeping things here intentionally vague.
❓What book was difficult for you to read but had a lasting impact on you?
Reading.is.your.destiny 
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