Book Review and Giveaway: Love Me Anyway by Tiffany Hawk

Disclosure / Disclaimer: I received this book, free of charge, from St Martin's Press, for review purposes on this blog. No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to post about it

Mom grabbed this one as soon as it came in, so this is her review!
Synopsis:

When twenty-three-year-old Emily Crane’s marriage to her abusive high school sweetheart ends, she trades in her dull small-town life for an all-access pass to see the world as a flight attendant.

Hoping for a new start, she moves to San Francisco to bunk with six other new flight attendants. Among them is KC Valentine, a free spirit who encourages Emily to shed her mousy ways and start collecting experiences as exciting as her passport stamps.

Emily soon follows KC’s advice a little too well, falling in love with an older, married co-worker named Tien, a father to two young girls. But as Emily and Tien become more deeply entangled, KC grows distraught. Neither her friends nor co-workers know the real reason she became a flight attendant: to find her father who abandoned her as a child.

As Emily and KC fly from Vegas to Boston, San Francisco to London, Chicago to Delhi, each searching for love and acceptance, they’re torn between passion and moral conviction, freedom and belonging.

Review: This was a very quick read and reminded me a lot of an old 70's movie, about airline stewardesses (I think she means Coffee Tea or Me? ). This isn't to say it was a bad thing, just similar situations and character types. The author takes you inside a world that few people really know anything about, except what they see on tv or at the movies, and personalizes it for the reader. For younger readers it might get them wondering about a career in 'the air'. It was an enjoyable read, and perfect for a 'by the pool' read this Summer!

About the Author: Tiffany Hawk is a graduate of UCLA and the MFA program at UC Riverside. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, National Geographic Traveler, The Potomac Review,StoryQuarterly, and NPR’s "All Things Considered." A few years ago, she did the one thing flight attendants aren’t supposed to do and married a pilot. Together with their son, she and her husband now live wherever the Air Force sends them.



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