Blog tour: Pieces of a Life by Jewel E Ann

Genre ~ Romantic Suspense

Featuring ~ slow burn, childhood sweethearts, friends to lovers~ish to enemies to lovers, forbidden love, single dad, law enforcement, medical examiner, characters in their teens and then in their 30’s, second chance

Series ~ Life Series ~ book 3 ~ Colton & Josie duet ~ part 1

Release date ~ September 13, 2022

POV ~ dual ~ 1st

Page count ~ 396

My rating ~ 4⭐

My review:

Colten and Josie’s story is a complicated one. It’s told in the present with some flashbacks of their childhood together beginning when they were 9. Something happened near high school graduation that made them not speak for 17 years. Now, they are working in parallel career fields that give them a chance to get to know each other again. Colten is a homicide detective and Josie is an medical examiner. One character is more reluctant than the other to reconnect.

For most of the book Josie was quite frustrating, and Colten at times too, but the story slowly takes us on the journey of why she’s so upset with Colten. I don’t want to give too much away, but there’s a bit of an intriguing mystery that they try to solve. Note that there is a cliffhanger, which is to be expected with a duet.

CW ~ many suicide and dead children references

Jewel is quite the story teller that takes you on an emotional ride. It was lighter on the romance than I thought it would be, but fast paced with an interesting plot. I’m looking forward to the continuation of Colten and Josie’s story in Memories of a Life and I’m excited to see what’s in store for their future.

*Thanks to Jewel E. Ann and Valentine PR for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

The summer before fourth grade, Colten Mosley moved into the house across the street from mine, and we became inseparable.

He played the piano and baseball.

I had a penchant for dead things while at the same time imagining what it would be like to kiss Colten.

We were filled with curiosity and overly active imaginations.

We were also forbidden to be more than friends.

But that didn’t stop us.

Weeks before graduation, he annihilated my heart, and it’s been seventeen years since the day I knew I’d hate him forever.

Now he’s back in my life—a single dad and a homicide detective looking over my shoulder while I perform autopsies as one of Chicago’s most gifted forensic pathologists. Then fate throws us a curveball.

Colten saves my life, but he can’t erase the images that now keep me awake at night. And I can’t explain them.

Am I still the girl he’s always loved? Or nothing more than pieces of that life?

*This story contains sensitive and graphic content.

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Jewel is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author with a quirky sense of humor. When she’s not saving the planet one tree at a time, you can find her role modeling questionable behavior to her three boys, binge-watching Netflix with her husband, and writing mind-bending romance.