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🌼🌹🌸PUB DAY REVIEW🌸🌹🌼

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🥰Thank you so much to @vikingbooks and @pameladormanbooks for the gifted book!

📖Title: The Names
✍️Author: Florence Knapp
📅Pub Date: May 6, 2025 (TODAY)

🌹Shakespeare may have asked it first, but Florence Knapp answered it best. “What’s in a name?” Can someone’s name alter the entire course of their life?

📖I usually don’t feel the need to share much of the synopsis, but in this case, I think it may lure more people in if I do! The book starts in 1987 with Cora on the way to take her baby to register his name. Even on the way over, she’s undecided, knowing that the name she chooses for her son could change the whole course of both of their lives.

🌹She’s torn between three names and ultimately we are shown 3 different versions of her and her son’s reality over a 55 year time period based on the name she chose for him that day.

📖I read this entire book on Sunday in two sittings! Once I started, I knew I wouldn’t be able to stop until I knew the fate of Cora and her family! I was connected with all three versions of reality. I’m amazed at the creativity it must have taken to follow three different paths and make each of them so gripping and unique.

🌹The ending could not have been better! Wow 👏

📖This book is a @readwithjenna and @bookofthemonth pick this month for great reason. You’ll be seeing this one EVERYWHERE, so make sure you grab a copy of this debut today!

⚠️This book is not all sunshine and butterflies as the cover may lead you to believe, so if you sensitive to certain things, make sure you check content warnings!

❓Do you know what your name means?