About the Book
Author: Jennifer Lynn Cary
Genre: Sweet, Clean Romantic Comedy
Release Date: January 20, 2026
She’s trying to move beyond her past…
…He wants to know who he was.
Will combining their pieces risk erasing their future together?
April Mathers wants to move forward. She can’t undo her impulsive high school blunder, so she keeps her head down, works hard, and prays for that long-awaited promotion. She’s cautious—even about the friends she chooses.
Then her next-door neighbor sublets her apartment to the one person capable of blowing up April’s world by repeating words that once shattered her.
Except he doesn’t remember saying them.
In fact, he doesn’t remember her.
Viet Nam vet Paul Romer has returned home hoping a support group can help him make peace with his permanent amnesia. All he has from before are flashes of a girl.
Then he finds her.
She lives next door.
And she definitely knows something—something not good.
Their chemistry is real, the tension tangled, and the secret between them is as stable as six-inch platform shoes. When the truth comes out, will it destroy their fragile beginning, or give them a future worth remembering?
Return to 1974 Kokomo, Indiana, where faith, love, and a legendary cardinal in a sycamore tree might fit the pieces into place.
You’ll swoon for this sweet, quirky, romantic tale of second chances, because sometimes sharing all those pieces of your heart is the only way to put it back together.
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My Review
This is another good Christian romance. Carey builds suspense by hinting there is some serious deed from the past that dealt a devastating blow to the previous relationship between Paul and April. Amnesia has removed the memory from Paul but it torments April. If he knew, would he still want to be with her? Tension permeates the possibility of a second chance at romance.
There are a few serious issues Carey explores in this novel. The main one is forgiveness. We hope Paul will forgive April if he finds out what she did all those years ago. But April faces her own issue with forgiveness when she is physically hurt by a customer. Another interesting issue is the amnesia. Do heartfelt feelings manage to get through even if there is no memory of them? Does the heart know even when the mind does not?
I recommend this delightful romance. Set in 1974, its a fun trip down memory lane. While it is part of a series, it reads well on its own. The series is so much fun one should really start at the beginning and read them all.
My rating: 4/5 stars.
About the Author
More from Jennifer
Ever have one of those songs that you’ve loved for a long time and then you discover someone else covered the song? As a general rule, I tend to like the first version better. It’s familiar and often brings up good memories.
However, (you knew there was a however coming, right?) I discovered a different version of “Pieces of April” solely by accident. And it was done by the guy who wrote the song, Dave Loggins. Three Dog Night’s version is great. Chuck Negron did some of his best work on that track. But Dave Loggins’s version touched me in a new way.
So, I did some investigating. For one thing, I wanted to know what the song was about. Was there really an April? Or was it just a play on words?
Turns out, there was an April. And that Dave Loggins enjoyed interacting with fans online. So he’d written that he and April (the girlfriend) had a relationship for three Aprils (meaning the month) before they broke up. He missed her and wrote the song for her and it was one of his favorites that he’d written.
However, (you should’ve known this one was coming 😉) Dave passe away in 2024 so I didn’t get to ask him any more questions.
As I was putting this series together, I listed all the rock and roll songs I could think of from 1960 to the early 1970s that had girls’ names in the titles. Then I grouped them for similarity in beat and title words. When I came to “Pieces of April”, I immediately knew it would have to be an amnesia story. I started it out as a young married couple who ends up going through this but it wasn’t working. I struggled a lot trying to rework what I’d been musing on for months and the funny thing is, once I got past chapter five, things started happening. I’m not a plotter but I’m not a pure pansters/discovery writer either. But this book was a lot of discovery for me and how the threads all got tied up, that’s a God thing.
Blog Stops
Book Reviews From an Avid Reader, April 14
Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, April 15
Inspired by Fiction, April 16
Leslie’s Library Escape, April 17
Jodie Wolfe – Stories Where Hope and Quirky Meet, April 18 (Author Interview)
Pause for Tales, April 18
Texas Book-aholic, April 19
Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, April 20
She Lives To Read, April 21
Books, Books, and More Books, April 22 (Author Interview)
For Him and My Family, April 23
A Modern Day Fairy Tale, April 24 (Author Interview)
Mrs. Ryan Moser’s Book and Movie Reviews, April 24
Paula’s Pad of Inspiration, April 25
Life on Chickadee Lane, April 26
Books Less Travelled, April 27 (Author Interview)
Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Jennifer is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon Gift Card and an eBook copy of the book!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
https://gleam.io/8J97u/pieces-of-april-celebration-tour-giveaway
I received a complimentary egalley of this book through Celebrate Lit. My comments are an independent review.
(My star ratings: 5-I love it, 4-I like it, 3-It's OK, 2-I don't like it, 1-I hate it.)
3 comments:
This looks like a very intriguing novel. Thanks for sharing.
Sounds terrific
This sounds like a great book! Ty for sharing!
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