About The Book:
Title: Bird After Bird
Author: Leslea Tash
Dear Birdy, Princess Birdzilla von MuffinStuff, Keeper of Dreams, Lover of our Fine Feathered Friends, queen of my life and light of my world, I hope this letter finds you well. If you are reading this then I am gone, and sweetheart, I am so sorry.
Chi-town professional Wren Riley is 25 and a rising star in the business world. She can eat a man alive and laugh about it to her girlfriends in seconds flat--and she does, on the regular. Behind the power suits and the flashing, flirty eyes, however, Wren has a secret, vulnerable side. Following a devastating loss and the discovery of a bird journal she and her father made together years before, Wren sets out to seek peace, closure, and something she just can't name. Is that something tied to the little paper cranes she keeps finding along the way?
Laurence Byrd grew up a lanky Hoosier kid with the good/bad fortune of having the same name as the state's perennial basketball legend. With a better affinity for dogs than sports or school, he ends up in the Army instead of the Chicago art school of his dreams. Still, his service to our country is something he can be proud of--until an argument with the girl who means the world to him results in a series of events that blows his life apart. With no one left to understand him, black sheep Laurie pours out his heart into letters and drawings he never intends to send--then he folds them into paper cranes that he leaves behind like messages in little winged bottles. He never dreams someone might be finding them.
God damn it, Sylvia, for a few moments I tricked myself into feeling really alive. I cut it off before anyone got hurt, but just for a moment or two, I really thought I might feel something again--something like trust. Something like love. Not the kind of love we had, but something new. Something like hope.
Spoiler alert: Wren and Laurie are going to meet. And when they do, their lives are never going to be the same.
My Review:
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Bird After Bird by Leslea Tash is a truly beautiful story about love, loss, recovery, and happily ever afters.
Wren is back in her hometown, one year after her fathers death, having just discovered the bird journal he left for her with letters from his deathbed. She begins a journey then of reconnecting with who she used to be and finally healing from her fathers passing. Then she meets Laurie and the real love story begins...
Laurie is a shell of who he once used to be. Plagued by the loss of his love and guilt over his mistake that caused the death of his army pal. When he meets Wren his soul begins to awaken from the fog he's been shrouded in.
This is a truly beautiful story that I couldn't put down. I look forward to reading more from this author.
About The Author:
Leslea Tash is a professional writer published in hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and websites for over a decade.
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