Review: Eight Perfect Hours by Lia Louis

Eight Perfect Hours by Lia Louis

Blurb from Goodreads:

On a snowy evening in March, 30-something Noelle Butterby is on her way back from an event at her old college when disaster strikes. With a blizzard closing off roads, she finds herself stranded, alone in her car, without food, drink, or a working charger for her phone. All seems lost until Sam Attwood, a handsome American stranger also trapped in a nearby car, knocks on her window and offers assistance. What follows is eight perfect hours together, until morning arrives and the roads finally clear.

The two strangers part, positive they’ll never see each other again, but fate, it seems, has a different plan. As the two keep serendipitously bumping into one another, they begin to realize that perhaps there truly is no such thing as coincidence. With plenty of charming twists and turns and Lia Louis’s “bold, standout voice” (Gillian McAllister, author of The Good Sister), Eight Perfect Hours is a gorgeously crafted novel that will make you believe in the power of fate.

 This is much more maudlin and sad than the description suggests and than I was expecting.  It reminded me a bit of another book that was less than a hit for me, Ghosted.  So if you liked that one, you may like this one.  The good parts just didn't make up for the seriously maudlin parts for me.

Eight Perfect Hours comes out soon on September 28, 2021 and you can purchase HERE.  

"My life has started. I'm in it. It's not something I'm waiting for anymore. I'm here. And whatever I wanted for my life, was it this? I doubt it, Noelle, I really do--"