All the Men I've Loved Again by Christine Pride starts off very slow – almost to the point I DNF. A lot of time is spent introducing things instead of getting right into the story.
Cora is our protagonist, and the beginning of the book is about her time at Hamlin College in Virginia. As this is the late 90s/early 2000s – the same time I was in college – I loved all of the slang and references to popular culture. I thought this was where the book shined brightest! While at college, Cora meets her lifetime best friends, Kim and Neisha. She also falls in love at first sight with Lincoln, the first man in our “love triangle.” After college, she meets our second man, Aaron.
The second half of the book takes place 20 years in the future. Cora is single, but her dalliance begins again with Lincoln. On a trip out to LA, she happens to run into Aaron again. I was pretty confident about who she'd end up with once it was revealed one of the men used pony fur as wallpaper. (Yes, you read that correctly.)
I honestly wasn't particularly interested in Cora's love story with either Lincoln or Aaron. I thought this story shined in how it depicted the father/daughter relationship between Cora and her dad and also the nuances of female friendship as Cora, Kim, and Neisha got older.
Note for Kindle readers: The letters Aaron sends to Cora are tough to read because of the formatting. I skipped all of them.
My rating: ⭐️⭐️
I received a free copy of All the Men I've Loved Again by Christine Pride from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
From Christine Pride, the beloved coauthor of the Good Morning America Book Club Pick We Are Not Like Them, comes a dazzling solo debut novel about a woman who finds herself in the impossible situation of being in love with the same two men who won her heart in her early twenties again as she nears forty.
