Book Review: The One & Only

The One & Only by Emily Giffin

Goodreads.com Synopsis:
Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas—a small college town that lives and dies by football, a passion she unabashedly shares. Raised alongside her best friend, Lucy, the daughter of Walker’s legendary head coach, Clive Carr, Shea was too devoted to her hometown team to leave. Instead she stayed in Walker for college, even taking a job in the university athletic department after graduation, where she has remained for more than a decade.

But when an unexpected tragedy strikes the tight-knit Walker community, Shea’s comfortable world is upended, and she begins to wonder if the life she’s chosen is really enough for her. As she finally gives up her safety net to set out on an unexpected path, Shea discovers unsettling truths about the people and things she has always trusted most—and is forced to confront her deepest desires, fears, and secrets.

Thoughtful, funny, and brilliantly observed, The One & Only is a luminous novel about finding your passion, following your heart, and, most of all, believing in something bigger than yourself . . . the one and only thing that truly makes life worth living.

My Review: 4 out of 5 stars. I listened to this one on audio. I think it may have prevented me from giving it a full 5 stars. Because someone else created the “voice” of Shae for me thus her character really grated on my nerve. LOL I wanted to slap her out of her world a couple of times and say get with the program. 😉 Overall, though, I thought it was a great read. Fun story and one I’d recommend you pick up if you are a chick lit lover.

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