Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I loved the premise, a WWYD in this scenario. A hit-and-run driver kills your husband and then a fixer offers to make you free financially or leave you with crippling debt, which would you choose? Unfortunately the story doesn't live up to the premise. Holly and her husband were paycheck to paycheck kind of people, so it wasn't surprising that she chose financial freedom. But for all the guilt she felt for taking the money, she didn't look very hard for an alternative. She wasn't sure if her husband had life insurance or any sort of military pension, didn't check to see if she qualified for disability while she healed, didn't know how to apply for social security. This is where she lost me, she didn't even try to find out! Just accepted the money with no consequences for the person who killed her husband, which made it hard for me to feel sorry for her. Her daughter Savannah was too proud to be a GoFundMe recipient, but had no problem spending the blood money right and left. Savannah sort of picks and chooses to which of the morals that her dad instilled in her to live by. It was really easy for nosy neighbor Libby to figure out who owned Holly's house, and even after signing an NDA Holly spills her guts about what happened because she doesn't have any friends. She barely knew Libby, but gave her enough info to play amateur detective. Besides inserting herself into Holly's life, Libby spends most of her time whining about not having enough money and generally being unlikable. It's a pretty short book, but it became more convoluted to longer it went on. There were weird religious parts (like "I just need to give it up to God") that popped up from time to time, but they didn't seem to fit with the story. The bad guy was too obvious, I had him pegged the minute he showed up. The worst part was the bizarre romance at the end, which was not believable in any way. UGH. *Kindle First Reads Pick