Reasons to Heal by Jenn Matthews
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Description
A beautiful lesbian romance about wants, love, family, and duty, asking when is the right time to live our own life and dreams.
English police constable Molly Blue is devastated when an assault forces her to endure weeks of therapy and disrupts her promising career. The cute physiotherapist getting her back on her feet is an intriguing distraction at least.
Physiotherapist Kudzi Mufaro is a bold, confident woman in every area of her life except one. She hasn’t told her Zimbabwean parents she’s gay. That probably explains the parade of men her family keeps trotting past her nose. Is it time to finally be honest?
But when Molly takes a visit home, it rocks her to the core. She is forced to decide whether to stay and look after her sister or not. It would mean giving up her career and any hope of something more with Kudzi.
Additional information
| Publication Date | July 2020 |
|---|---|
| Formats | epub (for Kindle Reader/Kindle Apps, for iBooks, Nook etc.), mobi, and pdf |
| Length | 75,000 words |
| Language | English |
| ISBNs | 978-3-96324-374-5 (mobi), 978-3-96324-375-2 (epub), 978-3-96324-376-9 (pdf) |
| Publisher | Ylva Publishing |
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Karola – :
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A really good story, with lots of characters you‘d like to know in real life. I can imagine how difficult it must be to have parents with a view of gay people that isn‘t acceptable. At the end of the book everything happens a little bit fast and Kudzis parents, who reacted very badly before to gay people, are now accepting of Kudzis life. All in all I liked this book, acceptance is still a problem, but for me the last part of this book happens too fast.
Miira – :
Here’s a refreshing take on the doc/patient trope. This time, the main characters are a physiotherapist (Kudzi) and a new police (Molly), still in training.
The story gets going when Molly is injured during a routine arrest. Getting back in shape takes quite a bit longer than she thought, she lives alone in a small flat, her little sister is rebelling… but hey, at least her physiotherapist is cute!
The medical side of things, such as physical therapy, group sessions, and slow recovery are believable and not too detailed. The romance is slow burn and sweet but not schmaltzy. At times I felt like it would be really easy to fall for Kudzi.. and wanted to shout at Molly.
Themes of culture clash, responsibilities and coming out were handled nicely and all the characters seemed real. Another solid novel from Jenn; four stars!
Helen & Nikki! Lucy! Asking for consent! The ASMR-y hand thing! Waita zvako (the language nerd in me was delighted)!
Patricia Iserman – :
Interesting look into the lives of a family that moved from Zimbabwe to UK.
Kudzi’s family immigrated when she was 2 years old.
Molly is a born and bred UK girl.
So we have two women of extremely different backgrounds suddenly finding themselves attracted to each other .
Of course all does NOT go smoothly but the journey is fascinating.
Well worth reading.
“Homosexuality, same-sex relations used to be accepted and commonplace in Zimbabwe prior to colonisation by Rhodesian and British governments,which in turn has spread the erroneous belief that homosexuality is un-African or a Western product and therefore illegal with heavy penalties.“
Chris Hooker – :
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In Matthews third book she continues to flex her ability to explore the human condition. In this book she tackles culture and family. The struggles to overcome fear and insecurity as individuals as well as a couple are faced within this novel. Fear is the enemy but love is stronger
Betty Harmon – :
Reasons to Heal by Jenn Matthews sounded really promising when I read the blurb. I knew I liked Ms. Matthews writing. This is the third book I’ve read by her, and she is a consistently skilled writer.
The premise of this book is a really good one. I liked the story idea of a police officer trainee (Molly) being hurt on the job, and then becoming attracted to her physiotherapist (Kudzi). I loved the diversity of the story with Kudzi and her family being from Zimbabwe and Molly’s younger sister being deaf. Ms. Matthews obviously did her research on these two aspects of the story, and it definitely made the tale better.
My biggest problem came with the main characters themselves. I had trouble connecting with them, and I really didn’t like some of their actions toward each other. I actually liked Lucy, one of the secondary characters, better than I liked her friend Molly for most of the book.
This is a very slow-burn romance, which I did enjoy. I do think Ms. Matthews did an excellent job with the romance part of the novel.
Overall, this is just an okay story for me. There are parts that I really loved, but not having connected with the main characters left me disappointed.
Thanks to Ylva Publishing for the chance to read and honestly review this novel.
listener15 – :
Stars: 4 Stars
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Rachael Beresford
Series: Stand Alone
Steam Level: Steamy
I picked up the ebook of this years ago and just never got around to reading it. Then when I was wondering around the Audible Plus catalog recently, I saw it there and decided to give it a shot.
Quick Thoughts:
– After reading this book, I’d consider it low angst even with how angsty it sounds like it should be
– The difference of ages is only seven years but it felt much larger because Molly reads very young, like just out of high school young
– As someone who has done a lot of physical therapy over the years, I understood Molly’s frustration on the slow, tedious, exacting progress
– I love rats
– Lucy was a fun character and a dang good friend
– Cat and John are the sister and brother in law that everyone needs in their lives
– Something I liked about this book is that not only is it an interracial relationship but also a multicultural relationship and both aspects play a part in the story though not as big a part as one would think
– It seemed like Kudzi’s friends were going to play a bigger part in in the book but they were barely there
– At times I wanted to shake Molly with how she just didn’t seem to sympathize with Kudzi. A lot of my enjoyment of the character lessened because of this
– On the flip side, I wanted to give Kudzi a big big hug. I understood her fear and stress
– I really liked the ending and the motivations for the changes both characters make
– The epilogue wasn’t needed but it was cute
– The two main reasons I didn’t give this book five stars is that I didn’t fully buy into them as a couple. I think it’s partly because they don’t actually spend a ton of time on page together. Also it felt like some story points were resolved too easily or didn’t really get explored
– Rachael Beresford did a great job. It was the first time I’ve listened to her and I’d be interested to see how she does narrating a different books
Overall I enjoyed this book though I wished some story points were explored more. I’m glad I listened to it and definitely recommend reading it that way.