Review: Living Dangerously

Living Dangerously by Katie Fforde
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

1.5 stars 

The 1996 publishing date was strongly felt here. It's wild how technological advances in just my lifetime make 1996 seems like another world. Writing phone numbers down on piece of paper and exchanging them, asking the bartender for the phone to ring up a cab, asking for an ash tray in a cafe, and not answering the phone because you think it's your mom but you don't know who it is. 

Really takes you back. 

Also, mainly, this story made me want to buy an older generational woman a cup of tea or coffee and makes me sad again that I wasn't older/mature enough to give my grandma maybe a little more grace before she died. The way fear around men was prevalent in this and used in a way that the male main character was obviously showcased as a good man because all those times "he looked like he wanted to hit her" he didn't do it. The physical abuse threat hovering, lurking around in this was stomach churning, the MMC make-up is set to never to do but ugh, the threat in the wind with the female main character thinking it quite a lot. Not an older pub I'd suggest worthy of a revisit.

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