Last Will

Name: Last Will
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Bryn Greenwood
ISBN: 9781666179682

Author: Bryn Greenwood

Narrator: Andrea Emmes, Tor Thom

Unabridged: 9 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/07/2022

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Romance

Synopsis

Bernie Raleigh is a failure at nearly everything he touches. Nobody notices a loser, and after being kidnapped for ransom as a child, Bernie has spent his adult life trying to avoid being noticed. That's impossible now that he's inherited his grandfather's enormous fortune. The inheritance comes complete with a mansion, a lot of obligations, and a very problematic housekeeper named Meda Amos. Beauty queen, alien abductee, crypto-Jew, single mother—Meda is all those things, and she may be the only person who can help Bernie survive his new and very public life.

About Bryn Greenwood

Bryn Greenwood is a fourth-generation Kansan, and the daughter of a mostly reformed drug dealer. She earned an MA in creative writing and continues to work in academia as an administrator. She is the author of the novels All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, Last Will, and Lie Lay Lain. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Chiron Review, Karamu, The Battered Suitcase, and Menda City Review. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emma

This is about life not being perfect. People not being perfect. That as we go through life, the paint chips off, we get dented, and sometimes we break. Bryan Greenwood is very astute with the characters she writes about. She makes her characters seem like real people. A theme of hers seems to be not......more

Goodreads review by *TANYA*

3.5 stars. Could have been a fantastic book but I felt like the author included a lot of gibberish that was not necessary to the story. I wish the main characters bond could have been developed a bit more. I’m not sure if Meda was best suited for Bernie because he was very endearing.......more

Goodreads review by Liviu

Last Will is one of the most charming and uplifting book I've read in recent years - last year's Lover's dictionary and 2010 Thera are other similar books I greatly enjoyed - while staying very grounded in "reality", though of course both main characters (Bernie and Meda) who alternate first person......more