"Forever Friday"

 

disclaimer: "I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review."
 

"Forever Friday"

A novel written by: Timothy Lewis

This was a really great read and I found myself unable to put it down!  I read "Forever Friday" and it starts out with Adam Colby in the year 2006.  Adam is an estate seller and was just doing his job, going through the belongings to sort and get them where they need to go.  He came across photo albums that were postcards from a husband to his wife and they came every Friday for 60 years.

The photo albums dumbfound Adam because he himself went through a bitter divorce and was not a believer that a marriage could be long and happy.  So Adam is your present day main character and Pearl Garnet Huckabee (who makes everyone call her Huck from the time she was 7 years old, till the end!)  and Gabe Alexander are the main characters for the story that dates back to 1926.

The book goes back and forth between present day and back in the day all the way through the book, which I love because you get  to see the take from the love story itself and the way Adam looked at it.  Adam starts digging into the story after finding the post cards and looking for people that might have known the Alexanders, He doesn't come across many and most didn't have much to say.  

He finally met Yvette (the Alexanders' housekeeper's daughter), who the Alexanders' practically raised and after she found him trustworthy they began to talk about the love story that was Huck and Gabe!  They talked about the postcards and how they came about, they talked about the crazy things that should have stood in the way of Huck and Gabe's love but didn't and they talked about the present day love and you will have to read the story yourself to decide where the two of them go from there!

As for Huck and Gabe it was a very loving relationship but, they too had their ups and downs and had to rely on faith to get them through the rough patches but, Gabe only ever missed one Friday out of 60 years of Fridays' and all of those Fridays he wrote a unique poem just for Huck to express his love to her.Every Friday she ran to get the mail so she could read the postcard, It is a very sentimental book and as I said before I had a very hard time putting it down!!!

To close I would like to share a part of the Authors Note from the back of the book.  Timothy Lewis says the story was LOOSELY based on his great aunt and uncle.  At their estate sale he literally pulled photo albums from the trash that contained 60 years worth of post cards and loosely based on that he came up with the story "Forever Friday".  Now his note was more detailed on how the events came about to write the book so I suggest you get reading!!! You won't put it down once you get started!!!