Someone to Hold ~ Marie Force ~ New Release

Release Date: November 15

Grief brought them together. Will it also tear them apart?

Iris

Two and a half years after suddenly losing the love of my life, I’m coming out of the fog of early grief and taking a hard look at the rest of my life. With three young children to care for on my own while also managing their grief, I haven’t had a lot of time to ponder what’s next for me. When I think about what I really want, I keep coming back to one thing. Or I should say one person, someone who understands what I’ve been through because he’s been there, too, only his losses were far worse than mine. I find myself thinking about him all the time, but is he ready for the things I want? I have no idea, but I’m determined to find out.

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Meet Marie Force 

Marie Force is the New York Times bestselling author of contemporary romance, romantic suspense and erotic romance. Her series include Fatal, First Family, Gansett Island, Butler Vermont, Quantum, Treading Water, Miami Nights and Wild Widows. 

Her books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, have been translated into more than a dozen languages and have appeared on the New York Times bestseller more than 30 times. She is also a USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, as well as a Spiegel bestseller in Germany. 

 

Her goals in life are simple—to finish raising two happy, healthy, productive young adults, to keep writing books for as long as she possibly can and to never be on a flight that makes the news. 

 

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Elizabeth's Review

4.5 stars - One of the Best

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Someone to Hold is a book that is hard to review. I want to recommend that everyone read it (and add a small disclaimer), but I want to be careful to not give anything about the story away.

This is the second installment in the Wild Widows series and focuses on group founder Iris as she makes the decision to take steps toward a romantic relationship in the “after.” Iris is a character that we originally met as a secondary in the first book of this series, but it was a pleasure to get to know her better here. She is someone that I would like to be friends with! She’s a wonderful combination of strong and vulnerable and is brutally honest about her grieving process and the highs and lows that come with it.

Ms Force does and excellent job of treating Iris and the whole cast with true grace as they navigate their grief journeys. The journeys portrayed here are mostly positive, but there is an element of honesty from the characters as they acknowledge hard days, struggles, and issues that trigger set backs. Some of the situations presented in Someone to Hold have a certain naïveté in regards to how people tangential to the events will respond, but I think the overall treatment of the situations works for the story being told.

This disclaimer I mentioned earlier has to do with the subject matter. This is definitely more of a “womens fiction book with a romantic story” vs a true romance that some might expect when the see who the author is. The reader’s life experience may make some of the subject matter here more impactful, so I would suggest that be considered before just diving in.

As the second book in a series, Someone to Hold is sequential in timeline. As such, there is a strong presence from the prior main characters. Someone to Hold is a standalone read, but I would suggest going in order for the best series experience.

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