The Things We Leave Unfinished
Ratings36
Average rating4.1
Added to listRomancewith 6 books.
Added to listHistorical Fictionwith 74 books.
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"I'd finally met someone with bigger control issues than I had."
Georgia's great-grandmother Scarlett passed away and left her everything, including control of her book rights, one left unfinished. Georgia's mom, eager for a payday to gamble away, poses as Georgia to get a publisher to find a writer to finish Scarlett's book. Enter Noah, modern fiction writer, arrogance personified. Georgia stubbornly wants to leave Scarlett's book unfinished, Noah stubbornly/arrogantly wants to finish Scarlett's book. Georgia reluctantly agrees, and the two start going through Scarlett's old letters between her and her pilot husband, while also working through their myriad control issues.
This story's told from two POVs, obviously Georgia and Noah are the modern couple finishing the book, but we also get Scarlett's POV from her relationship with Jameson during WWII. Jameson is a pilot, Scarlett is a plotter, and the two are basically head over heels for each other immediately.
I think of the two POVs, Scarlett/Jameson was my favorite. While they do fall in love pretty much instantly (and instalove makes my teeth hurt), I felt like Scarlett had her principles in the right places, felt like she had a voice and mattered to the plot, and overall just felt like a good person. On the other side of the coin, I felt like Noah and Georgia were annoying as characters. I wish more had been done to develop them and their relationship, because it felt like it only took one (not very eventful) rock climbing trip for Georgia to turn a 180 from being annoyed at/bothered by Noah to banging him. They're both kind of unpleasant in how they treated each other until then, and then afterwards it's like it never happened and they're all lovey dovey.
I also see a lot (the majority?) of people here saying how emotionally wrecked they were after reading this, and maybe my sad gene is broken, but I didn't feel particularly much of anything. Maybe I shouldn't have read The Women by Kristin Hannah before this, because that book did for me what this book didn't.
Finally, this may be me reading between the lines and projecting too much, but I also didn't like how much shade the author threw at Noah for being not a Romance writer, for having the audacity to have sad endings in his Fiction books, and just a general feeling that if you don't read Romance you're doing it wrong. It just felt weirdly pointed whenever it was mentioned by Georgia in-story.
It was okay, I guess is my summary. I didn't dislike it in any strong way, I just felt like it was missing something to make me either care/feel sad about the WWII story, or to sell me on Noah/Georgia being a good match for each other.
"I'd finally met someone with bigger control issues than I had."
Georgia's great-grandmother Scarlett passed away and left her everything, including control of her book rights, one left unfinished. Georgia's mom, eager for a payday to gamble away, poses as Georgia to get a publisher to find a writer to finish Scarlett's book. Enter Noah, modern fiction writer, arrogance personified. Georgia stubbornly wants to leave Scarlett's book unfinished, Noah stubbornly/arrogantly wants to finish Scarlett's book. Georgia reluctantly agrees, and the two start going through Scarlett's old letters between her and her pilot husband, while also working through their myriad control issues.
This story's told from two POVs, obviously Georgia and Noah are the modern couple finishing the book, but we also get Scarlett's POV from her relationship with Jameson during WWII. Jameson is a pilot, Scarlett is a plotter, and the two are basically head over heels for each other immediately.
I think of the two POVs, Scarlett/Jameson was my favorite. While they do fall in love pretty much instantly (and instalove makes my teeth hurt), I felt like Scarlett had her principles in the right places, felt like she had a voice and mattered to the plot, and overall just felt like a good person. On the other side of the coin, I felt like Noah and Georgia were annoying as characters. I wish more had been done to develop them and their relationship, because it felt like it only took one (not very eventful) rock climbing trip for Georgia to turn a 180 from being annoyed at/bothered by Noah to banging him. They're both kind of unpleasant in how they treated each other until then, and then afterwards it's like it never happened and they're all lovey dovey.
I also see a lot (the majority?) of people here saying how emotionally wrecked they were after reading this, and maybe my sad gene is broken, but I didn't feel particularly much of anything. Maybe I shouldn't have read The Women by Kristin Hannah before this, because that book did for me what this book didn't.
Finally, this may be me reading between the lines and projecting too much, but I also didn't like how much shade the author threw at Noah for being not a Romance writer, for having the audacity to have sad endings in his Fiction books, and just a general feeling that if you don't read Romance you're doing it wrong. It just felt weirdly pointed whenever it was mentioned by Georgia in-story.
It was okay, I guess is my summary. I didn't dislike it in any strong way, I just felt like it was missing something to make me either care/feel sad about the WWII story, or to sell me on Noah/Georgia being a good match for each other.
Added to listRomancewith 3 books.
Added to listHistorical Fiction with 1 book.
