All the Men I've Loved Again by Christine Pride

 

stars- This felt a little like reading someone's diary but in third person. It definitely made me nostalgic for my college days. Cora takes us back to her time in college when she first fell in love with Lincoln.  The first half of the novel is about her relationship with him and trying to fit in her new world, making friends, and finding connections.  Cora grew up without a mom and often felt lonely as she was the only black girl at a private school that her dad taught at.  In college she makes her first real friends and also falls in love.  All is well until one day it isn't.  Flash forward twenty years and Cora is in a similar situation that she was in her senior year of college.  She has to decide if she will repeat history or forge a new path. 

I did like this book and it definitely brought me back.  There were many parts of the story I could relate to or knew people in similar situations.  It was interesting to see what choices she made.  There were parts that I did find a little slow and at times I was a little frustrated with Cora's choices.  Overall I thought this was a solid novel.  There were steamy parts but I don't know that I would call this romance.  To me it was more about understanding yourself and what you want in life.