When you’re feeling lost at sea, what will it take to guide you home?
My Review
Poignant and emotional, it was a journey more than a read. Biggs did a lovely job showing the different points of view and how hard it is to become a caregiver to your parents, especially when they have something like dementia. As someone who has dealt with Alzheimer’s in the family, and dementia, this hit especially deep on that front and I thought that Biggs accurately portrayed it from Grace’s point of view. I can’t speak on Jack’s but it was heartfelt to read his chapters, to see his struggle with his memories. It definitely made me slightly emotional!
The characters are all well thought out and fleshed out so that I felt close to all of them, Michael included. And the threads of the stories were all interwoven in a way that made you feel like even if the story wasn’t physically moving at the time, the characters were constantly dealing with something internally, conflict within themselves or learning to reach out and rely on each other. And while three of the characters are together on a journey, our last fourth main character is on their own and sets us up for when it all connects.
The pacing was pretty well balanced too, and Biggs avoided any lulls. (Which made it hard to put down!)
I do think that maybe there were too many things going on at once, too many dramatic plot points when just any one or two of those would have done well. It felt that there might have been a checklist that had to be completed with things to include and that could take me out of the otherwise very investing read. But that’s a personal preference with it being ‘too busy.’ Too many plot twists has always been a bit of a downside for me aside from some exceptions.
3.75/5 Stars from me (rounding up to 4), and I would read more by Biggs. Thanks so much to the publisher for an eARC in exchange for my honest review. Happy pub day to this as of yesterday, May 8th!!
The Caffeinated Reader 
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