3.5 stars. I think this was probably the weakest in this series thus far. There were a lot of characters that I loved; Slade, Wyatt, Erin, hell, even Nancy. But there was one character that I didn’t like, Vickie. Being that Vickie was the second main character it’s not great for the reader to not like her.

Here’s the thing, I think I would have loved Vickie’s younger self. We didn’t get Vickie’s younger self though. We got a middle aged woman who thinks she’s been wronged by the love of her life and she’s stewed over this perceived wrong for forty some years. Yes, she thinks she was wronged. Yes, she was pregnant and basically homeless before she married a mean drunk. Yes, she tried to contact Slade through 4 letters. She knew Slade, more than once they’re referred to as soulmates, and yet she refused to believe him when he said he didn’t sleep with April, didn’t get her letters and knew nothing about their son.

Like some others, I expected this book to be more about Erin & Wyatt since the first chapter started with them. I expected there to be more about Four Toes. I expected there to be more about Slade meeting Brody. Sadly, we didn’t get those things.