ShortBookandScribes #BookReview – The Life and Loves of Becca Valentine by Laura Pearson
The Life and Loves of Becca Valentine by Laura Pearson is published by Boldwood and is available now. I bought my copy before the publishers changed the title as you will see in the photo below.
These are the things Becca Valentine doesn’t know yet:
She doesn’t know that two men are about to come into her life. Both seeking her heart.
She also doesn’t know that everything rests on her love story.
Because there are four children she might have. And Fate has a secret little twist for Becca: if she doesn’t choose the right man at the right time, she may never meet those children.
But what if someone could influence her to follow her heart? Even if they knew it might risk their own chance of coming into being? Because the other thing Becca doesn’t know is that somewhere – in a place they call the Beforelife – there are four beings waiting. And where they are, almost anything is possible…
The Life and Loves of Becca Valentine has a unique concept: the idea that the children whose mother you may become are there at your side, from your own birth, hidden from view but awaiting their own conception. It sounds a bit bizarre but the way the story is written makes it incredibly plausible. There are four of them in the beginning, Samuel, Lucy, Thomas and Eliza and it’s Eliza who narrates the story.
Through her we witness Becca meeting Anthony and Ryan. Each of the siblings knows who their father is and from their potential conception dates they know that they can’t all make it all the way to being born. It’s an ingenious way to take what are essentially the ups and downs of Becca’s romantic and home life and turn it into something even more intriguing, almost a race for life. The siblings can’t help but think about themselves but they also want to do what is best for Becca, somebody they have spent years alongside.
It’s a lovely novel and quite an emotional one for the reader who not only sees Becca’s difficulties, but also the beforelife situation as each conception date gets closer and closer. This is a book that is written with compassion and sensitivity, a love story in more ways than one. I really enjoyed it.
Laura Pearson is the author of nine novels. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont was a Kindle number one bestseller in the UK and a top ten bestseller in the US. Laura lives in Leicestershire, England, with her husband, their two children, and a cat who likes to lie on her keyboard while she tries to write.