Can’t Wait Wednesday – HELLO STRANGER by Katherine Center
“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about. It is a meme that I have loved participating in since I first started blogging, but as Jill is no longer actively posting, from now on I’ll be linking to Can’t Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, which is a spinoff of the original WoW meme.
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My selection for this week is HELLO STRANGER by Katherine Center. I’m actually embarrassed that I’m only just now posting about Katherine’s new book on my blog because she’s one of my auto-buy authors and Hello Stranger is, by far, one of my most anticipated reads of 2023. Needless to say, I can’t wait to read this one. Katherine is such a wonderful storyteller and I’m so curious to see how she incorporates face blindness into this romance. I do have an arc of Hello Stranger and I’m hoping to dive into it either later this week or over the weekend so I can come back and share my thoughts with you.
HELLO STRANGER by Katherine Center
Publication Date: July 11, 2023
by St. Martin’s Press
From Goodreads:
Love isn’t blind, it’s just little blurry.
Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Literally! One minute she’s celebrating the biggest achievement of her life—placing as a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition—the next, she’s lying in a hospital bed diagnosed with a “probably temporary” condition known as face blindness. She can see, but every face she looks at is now a jumbled puzzle of disconnected features. Imagine trying to read a book upside down and in another language. This is Sadie’s new reality with every face she sees.
But, as she struggles to cope, hang on to her artistic dream, work through major family issues, and take care of her beloved dog, Peanut, she falls into—love? Lust? A temporary obsession to distract from the real problems in her life?—with not one man but two very different ones. The timing couldn’t be worse.
If only her life were a little more in focus, Sadie might be able to find her way. But perceiving anything clearly right now seems impossible. Even though there are things we can only find when we aren’t looking. And there are people who show up when we least expect them. And there are always, always other ways of seeing.
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I’d love to hear what upcoming book releases you’re waiting on this Wednesday? Leave me your link in the comments below and I’ll stop by and check out your CWW selection for this week. 🙂
I can’t wait for that book either!
On my TBR, too!
I’m both fascinated and horrified by face blindness. It looks like the author is going to put a positive spin on it, though. I hope you love it😁
I hope you love this one!
Good choice, I am looking forward to it too.
I have this one and am looking forward to it. I have the audio version.
I hope it’s as good as it sounds. 🙂
One of these days I really am going to read something from Katherine Center! 🙂
This story sounds so good, I’m excited to read it too!
This is actually on deck for me this week. Center is an auto-read for me as well. I am sure this will be a hit
I’m really looking forward to reading this one, too!
This sounds like an interesting story, even though I haven’t heard of face blindness before! Thanks for sharing