📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Never Saw You Coming
AUTHOR: Erin Hahn @erinhahn_author
Publisher: Wednesday Books @wednesdaybooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ½ + 🐰
Published: September 7, 2021
The Review 📚 Never Saw You Coming
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- So many of Erin Hahn’s previous books were so enjoyable that I had to pick this one up. Thanks to @netgalley and Wednesday Books for letting me read this book ahead of publication!
💜 What I liked:
- I felt like this book was speaking to me. I grew up in a conservative christian environment, where the church (and private school) showered guilt and shame on girls. To this day I am still inching to tattoos and a bikini, embracing myself and stifling the voices.
- This book gets to the heart of this matter in a way that has been needed for a while, addressing prejudice and blame shifting, lack of non-judgemental mentorship. I could go on and on but I won’t. I will say too, Micah and Meg are respectful relationship goals.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- I do wish that there was a hint of their story being continued. I only knocked off half a star because I felt like the adults weren’t as complex as the kids (in some cases but not all). Also I have heard people say that they weren’t religious enough for this book, and it may be true that people who didn’t grow up in a church environment may not connect as well. Regardless, there can be sympathy to their plight and even the basic lesson of how judgement can hurt can be learned here.
🚦 My face at the end: 😿
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Non-preachy faith based book
- 2. 2 person point of view
- 3. Main characters are real and mature
- 4. Poignant topics covered
- 5. A much needed viewpoint (it needed to be SHOUTED!)
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Micah and Meg meet and share each other’s damaged backgrounds while still recovering from their faith being shook.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
📘 Summary 📚Never Saw You Coming
Raised by conservative parents, 18-year-old Meg Hennessey just found out her entire childhood was a lie. Instead of taking a gap year before college to find herself, she ends up traveling north to meet what’s left of the family she never knew existed.
While there, she meets Micah Allen, a former pastor’s kid whose dad ended up in prison, leaving Micah with his own complicated relationship about the church. The clock is ticking on Pastor Allen’s probation hearing and Micah, now 19, feels the pressure to forgive – even when he can’t possibly forget.
As Meg and Micah grow closer, they are confronted with the heavy flutterings of first love and all the complications it brings. Together, they must navigate the sometimes-painful process of cutting ties with childhood beliefs as they build toward something truer and straight from the heart.
In Erin Hahn’s Never Saw You Coming, sometimes it takes a leap of faith to find yourself.