Never Saw You Coming: A Novel
"BOLD. IMPORTANT. BEAUTIFUL.” - Laura Taylor Namey, New York Times bestselling author of A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
In Erin Hahn’s Never Saw You Coming, sometimes it takes a leap of faith to find yourself.
Eighteen-year-old Meg Hennessey just found out her entire childhood was a lie. So instead of taking a gap year before college to find herself, she ends up traveling north to meet what’s left of the family she never knew existed - all while questioning the ideals she grew up with.
While there, she meets Micah Allen, a former pastor’s kid whose dad ended up in prison, leaving Micah with his own complicated relationship with faith. The clock is ticking on his probation hearing and Micah, now 19, feels the pressure to forgive - even when he can’t possibly forget.
As Meg and Micah grow closer, they are confronted with the heavy flutterings of first love and all the complications it brings. Together, they must navigate the sometimes-painful process of cutting ties with childhood beliefs as they build toward something truer and straight from the heart.
"Heartfelt and utterly genuine… I already want to reread it." - Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of Small Favors
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Never Saw You Coming is the first book I’ve read by Erin Hahn, despite having had her previous novel, More Than Maybe on my TBR since it was released. And while I was fairly confident I would enjoy this YA romance that also deals with young adults struggling with their faith, I didn’t expect it to be somewhat healing for me, as well.
It’s not something I talk about often, but I was raised in a conservative Christian church. (Let me clarify, when I talk about the church, I mean the institution. Not God, not faith. Those are different topics that I won’t even try to get into here.) In fact, it’s only in the last three to four years that I’ve stopped attending church. And it’s not a coincidence that the timing coincided with a certain president-who-shall-not-be-named’s election. I still have unresolved feelings and thoughts about church, and I’ve pretty much been content to ignore them for now. I know it’s something I’ll deal with eventually but it’s true that when you step away from something that has had such a powerful influence over you for so long, it takes time to let go of those influences. When you wake up one day and feel like you’ve been mislead all your life, it’s hard to reconcile that quickly.
But I’m not here to talk about me (or at least I’ll try not to
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