Hilarious and heart warming I fully expect a movie. It is so visual it will be a blockbuster I’m sure. Here is my book review The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnet

An Unforgettable Road Trip

Some road trips are planned, some just evolve. This one is a bit of both. But it’s the characters of this novel that really make it so wonderful. An eclectic group of unexpected people connected by circumstance and chance. And one orange tabby cat named Pancakes.

Comedy of Errors

What happens when you take one alcoholic sixty-three year old lottery winner and throw in two orphaned kids, an estranged daughter, his ex-wife who is marrying his best friend, a soap opera star and a multitude of other quirky characters along the way? Plus a cat who knows when people are going to die. Well this is The Road to Tender Hearts.

PJ Halliday

PJ is an unlikely protagonist of this story. He loves his family but ever since the death of his oldest daughter fifteen years ago nothing has gone right. His wife left him, he drinks too much, and his other daughter Sophie is fed up with him. But when a cat named Pancakes comes into his life he finds hope. PJ decides to drive from Massachusetts to Arizona to track down his high school sweetheart Michelle Cobb at the Tender Hearts Retirement Community.

The adventure is busting with heartfelt and hilarious moments, as well as several dead people (which Hartnett somehow also makes hilarious), and several police officers. The dark humor makes it laugh out loud and I enjoyed this story tremendously. You will have to read it to find out if everyone lives happily ever after.

Book Review The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnet

I envision someone like Tommy Lee Jones or maybe Bryan Cranston in the role of PJ Halliday. I hope it is a movie…but you gotta read the book first.

*****Five stars for The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnet. Thanks for reading my book review The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnet. See last week’s book review A Family Matter by Claire Lynch.

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