How to Walk Away - Katherine Center

How to Walk Away – Katherine Center

(4 / 5)

I have read some AMAZING reviews on this one! I was super excited to get a review copy and I was not disappointed. Well ok, maybe I was disappointed at the ending, but I still enjoyed it.

Margaret is having a wonderful day, except for the plane trip with her aspiring pilot fiance as she is afraid of flying, but getting engaged and a grand spanking new job is worth celebrating! Except suddenly her good day turns into a nightmare when the plane crashes. With burns to her body and a debilitating spinal injury, things are about to get very challenging for poor Margaret.

Lets just start with the medical parts of the novel, because as a critical care nurse I get a bit nervous when I read about medical treatment in novels, especially burns because I have a lot of experience nursing major burn victims. So she did pretty well with this one. A few parts were a bit unbelievable, but overall it was done really well.

I really liked the characters. There were a few that were so fun to dislike! And the banter between the characters, especially Margaret with her sister and Ian, was often laugh-out-loud funny!

Ok, the elephant in the room.. The ending… All was going SO WELL, up until the last 9-10% of the book. The absolutely stupidly unbelievable and totally crappy corny ending! It turned my 5 star read to a 4 max. I absolutely hated it. I rolled my eyes at pretty much every page and was longing for the clever, intelligent writing of the first 90% of the book. I felt utterly let down.

Otherwise, it was clever and tender, heartwarming and entertaining. I thoroughly enjoyed the rest of it immensely and if it weren’t for that hallmark card stupid ending and some out of the blue silly decisions made by the main character, it would have been a solid 5 stars. But alas.

Would I recommend How to Walk Away?

Yes. Despite the ending, the rest of the book was fabulous. If you like back-from-nothing type novels with a lovely romance and awesome characters, I am sure you will enjoy it! You may even appreciate the ending more than I did!

Thanks to the author and St Martins Press via Netgalley for a copy of How to Walk Away to review.