I thought this book had a very interesting synopsis and therefore decided to listen to the audiobook. To start, I did not enjoy the fact that the audiobook uses different voices for the women vs the men (in terms of every single thing they say). I think it's a bit distracting and would much rather listen to one person who can "do" different voices depending on the characters.

As for the book itself, I was very disappointed. I felt the dad's illness was actually a bit pointless in terms of the story overall. Also, although I thought Mickey was a very realistic character at the beginning of the book, she changed way too fast and therefore became very unrealistic to me. I also thought it was strange that the first part is all from the dad's point of the view and then randomly, we start seeing things from Mickey's point of view. The switch was too abrupt and did not seem to flow very well.

This went from 3 stars to 2 stars for me because of the epilogue. If Baldacci had just ended the book without an epilogue, I would have said it was pretty good. Not great, but a decent read. However, I felt the epilogue tried too hard to give everyone a happy ending.

I would not recommend this book. I think there are much better books in the same genre.