Love Deleted by Paul Indigo
Audiobook
Genre: Women’s Fiction / Romance / Second Chance Romance / General Fiction
Today I am reviewing Love Deleted by Paul Indigo for the Lovebookstours audio blogtour. I was gifted a free audiobook in exchange for an honest review. Many thanks to the author and Kelly from Lovebookstours. The audiobook was narrated by the fabulous Gill Mills.
The combination of a really interesting premise and a great cover made me want to read this book. I was fascinated (but slightly horrified) by the idea of deleting love from the brain in order to get over heartbreak. The story is told from different perspectives over past and present. The main story is that of the protagonist, Cooper Hall, a talented sound engineer (not sure if that’s the right term), who lives with her husband, the up and coming musician Jethro Hall, and their son, Daniel, who’s at university. Cooper is described as a tomboy who loves her work and is devoted to her family. The other story focuses on Cooper’s sister Harriet and her husband Eddsy, a devoted couple who own a chain of garages.
The story is told from alternating points of view, interspersed with transcripts from the Sue Baxter Podcast, in which Sue is interviewing the doctors who founded the Gateway Programme… It’s hard to talk about this without giving spoilers so I won’t dwell on the plot, hopefully the description in the blurb is enough to tempt you! I really enjoyed the format of the book and the different timelines. I loved the characters – they were all flawed but likeable and I became invested in them early on.
Cooper has a real mix of strength and vulnerability and fierce independence. I was crying out for her to talk to someone about what she was going through! I really liked Eddsy and the way he cared so deeply about not only his wife but also Cooper. There was a lot of love and kindness in the books as well as pain and heartbreak and misunderstanding. What really struck me was how so much of the pain could have been prevented by the characters opening up to each other and being honest. There was so much love but still they held back and didn’t say what they were really feeling. It was lovely to see how much the male characters really cared and how deep their feelings went. I often feel its unfair that men are depicted as being shallow and unemotional, whereas the author has shown their vulnerability and huge capacity for feeling.
“Soft Kisses….soft moans…”
The way the story develops is fabulous. It’s so nailbitingly gut-churning when you begin to get the answers. Oh my, the Savoy Hotel!!! I could totally imagine how Cooper must have felt, the sense of panic and sickness. I must admit, I had considered the big reveal as a possibility early in the story, but had then dismissed it due to the author’s clever story weaving. I found it really interesting the way love and dependence were analysed and the ending was fabulous. The book stirred up a lot of emotions and a lot of questions. It’s incredibly thought provoking. I really, really enjoyed it and didn’t want it to end.
I loved the narration by Gill Mills, she was perfect. I loved the little phrases that repeated through the book, they really helped to illustrate the pain and emotion and gave the book an almost poetic feel. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes a book that’s a bit different, gets you questioning; a love story with a twist; interwoven stories; different timelines and wonderful characters.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
The blurb
ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ERASE YOUR LOVE?
This is an impossible love story…
Cooper came home unexpectedly early that day. The day her world collapsed. The day she heard things she shouldn’t have. Saw things she shouldn’t have.
Now Cooper is running away. Driving recklessly. Blindly. A broken heart spiralling out of control after witnessing an earth-shattering scene.
Then Cooper discovers the website. Speaks to the doctors. Can they help her? Can they give her the treatment she desperately wants? Yes they can. They can do something mind-blowing.
They can surgically erase her love for her husband Jethro.
Only what appears to be the perfect solution sets off a devastating chain of events not only for Jethro and herself. But one also involving their teenage son Daniel in ways she can’t imagine.
A life-shattering moment. A rash decision. An easy solution. This isn’t just a love story. Not when a heart isn’t just broken, it is irreversibly silenced.
This is an impossible love story.
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