Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

I was given a copy of this book by NetGalley in return for an honest review.

Ask,Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane is a story about two people, Kate and Peter, born around the same time to parents living next door to each other. Kate the youngest of three girls and Peter an only child. Their friendship develops and the link between them is strong but Peter's mother disapproves. Both of their fathers are Police officers who worked together for a short time, but that relationship never grew and Kate's father has little time for his neighbours. When the children are 14 an event one evening changes their futures forever and their relationship is put on hold as each of them tries to forget the events of that night and move on with their lives.

I will be really honest, it took me four attempts at starting this book before I finally got into it. The first chapter about when the two fathers were working together didn't inspire me to read on, but I knew I had to persevere with it and I'm glad I did.

The story is quite quick paced it jumps through time quite quickly so starts with Francis and Brian working together, to when the children were born, to teenage years, then adulthood, and if I'm honest I don't like books that do this, I feel like I'm missing out on important aspects of their lives. At the same time with this story I felt you needed to know what happened after 'the event', how it affected each of the characters and what happened to Kate and Peter's relationship.

Overall I liked the story but it didn't grip me, I could have easily put it down and not found out what happened and it wouldn't have bothered me. The story was okay, but wasn't anything special, the characters were okay too but again nothing or no-one really stood out

I gave the book 2 stars on Goodreads

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