The Last Thing He Told Me: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

Hannah is a wood turner and Owen works for one of her most prominent clients. They meet at her office when her client comes to view some furniture he’s commissioned. Owen asks Hannah out and she eventually accepts. They date/get married, the whole thing. Owen has a 16 year old daughter, Bailey who pretty much despises Hannah. It’s been just her and her dad basically her whole life. When Owen disappears suddenly, he leaves both Hannah and Bailey separate notes. They both soon learn that the life Owen and Bailey were living was not at all what it seemed…

I enjoyed this book, it definitely kept me guessing through out and there were plenty of twists and turns. I only rated it 4 stars because I really didn’t like the ending and was hoping for something more.

Full of twists and turns. You'll get to a certain point of the book and will immediately need to know everything.

it’s been on my tbr list forever… a decent true crime story that i found fairly interesting

It holds your attention and takes you on a ride. It's a love story between a husband and wife and stepmother to stepdaughter. A tale of a woman who loved a man and became an instant stepmom to a 16-year-old teenage daughter who rejects the notion of having another woman in her father’s life. We find Hanna Hall in that predicament as she is living her life with her husband, Own Michaels, and his daughter, Bailey, living together in Sausalito. The daughter Bailey still does not want anything to do with Hannah. It’s not personal but yet it feels so personal to Hanna. Yet, Hanna shoulders on and still loves Bailey, regardless, because she loves Owen, Bailey’s father and they are a packaged deal.

Then one day, Hanna finds Owen not only left her but left Bailey, the two loves of his universe. In other words, he’s missing and his company is being charged with fraud and embezzlement. The sh*+ has hit the fan and nobody can find Owen. Worse yet, the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents are knocking on Hanna’s door.

This is a whirlwind of trying to figure out what is happening and finding out all about that man you love with all your heart, to find out, there are things about him that you never knew. Things his own daughter didn’t know. Where does that leave you and you also ask yourself, do you still believe in the man you were married to or what people are telling you about him?

As Hanna and Bailey set out to find Owen, they start peeling off layer upon layer revealing more of the man and getting closer to discovering who he was. I found this book mesmerizing, heartbreakingly beautiful, and how regardless everyone is telling Hanna, Owen’s not the man you think he is, she holds on to the fact that she knows the man he is. She loves that man and she was entrusted to protect his daughter and so she does. Even if it will cost her everything.

It is a true love story and one I felt was written with so much heart, my heart broke as I read more and more. It is one of my favorite books as I seldom give out 5 stars to my read books. In a word, mesmerizing!

interesting read

I'm unsure how to really rate this book as it left me with many questions. Usually I'm satisfied with the ending of books but this one just frustrates me. I really didn't fully understand what happened to Owen that it would get to this extreme.