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Corinne: A Novel by Rebecca Morrow 

Title:  Corinne: A Novel

Author:  Rebecca Morrow 
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Genre:  Women's Fiction
Format:  Kindle
No. of Pages:  423
Date of US Publication: 12 July, 2022
My Rating:  3 Stars

My Thoughts 

If you asked me if I was interested in a contemporary setting, Romeo and Juliet retelling with a fundamentalist religious community, I would have probably replied with an adamant and resounding absolutely not and fully meant it, but as I started this one, I realized that I was really invested in this story and didn’t want to stop reading (I stayed awake til past 4 am because I needed to read just a little bit more).

While I had an impossible time connecting to the raised in serious religion hangups the characters possessed, I was so impressed with the beauty of Morrow’s writing and the characters of this book who are so real that they strike the reader more as people you’ve heard about or seen in an article, not fictional characters. This novel kept my interest throughout and I finished it within a 24-hour period. 

There is a lot (and I mean A LOT) of fairly awkward sex, most of which seems unnecessary to the story. I have no issue with sex in stories, it can really add to a novel when done well; I found the sex in this one detracted rather than added and diminished my overall enjoyment somewhat.

eARC kindly provided by St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley. Opinions shared are mine.

Description

"I was riveted...A modern-day Romeo & Juliet."—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways

You want to walk away from the things that are bad for you and never look back.

That's what Corinne Callahan wants.

Cast out of the fundamentalist church she was raised in and cut off from her family, Corinne builds a new life for herself. A good one. But she never stops missing the life—and the love— she's left behind.

It's Enoch Miller who ruins everything for her. It was always Enoch Miller. She'll never get him out from under her skin.

Set over fifteen years and told with astonishing intimacy, Rebecca Morrow's Corinne is the story of a woman who risks everything she's built for the one man she can never have.