One Percent of You -

Michelle Gross

Independently Published

2022

384 páginas

12h 48m

ISBN-10: B0B3FGFQNB

Make no mistakes about it. I know what I look like to others. Young, government-aided, pregnant mom. They see Lucy on my hip, and they see a mistake. I mean, why else would someone have a child so young, right? They couldn’t be more wrong. I’m too busy most days between parenting, work, and finishing up my last year of nursing school to let their judging gaze tear me down until he moves into the vacant house next to the apartments I live in.
His cold, blunt observation of us doesn’t differ from any other stranger. He doesn’t know me, but he’s already painting a picture of who he thinks I am in his mind. He judges my very round belly, Lucy’s inability to leave him alone, the bags under my eyes, and the fact that I couldn’t care less what I look like anymore.
He’s a rude guy. Stays that way for months too. Then something happens, I’m not even sure what. Judgmental Guy decides Lucy and me—as well as baby Eli, are worth his friendship.
Turns out, Judgmental Guy isn’t too mean—okay, he kind of still is. But he graduates to Elijah. I build an unlikely friendship with him which deems it necessary for him to start smiling around me and my kids. I’m wrong again. Elijah isn’t rude. He’s terrifying. His strange acts of kindness are unraveling me. Elijah is only my friend.
Right? Oh, fudge. I think I’m wrong. Again.

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3.5 (Bom)

One Percent of You

Foi bom. É aquele tipo de romance que evolui devagar e não tem muita coisa acontecendo em volta disso, por isso entendo se muitos leitores não gostarem da história, mas era tudo o que eu precisava nesse momento, um romance calmo e sem clímax.

A autora poderia ter dado um rumo totalmente diferente para esse livro, com mais discussões, traumas e complicações, mas foi pelo caminho mais leve e realista, por isso gostei.