"You and I aren't simple."
I don't know what Ms Rodriguez put into this story, but I loved it so darn much.
Sabrina's Guide to Searching for Someday was real, raw and gave you that sense of something more. You could literally feel the emotions dripping right off of Sabrina and feel every ounce of what she was going through. I could feel her pain, but I also felt how she grew from the past into the present. Her character's growth was at the core of this story and it gave me a sense of hope.
Told in dual timelines in past and present, we meet Sabrina, a woman with 2 children about to be divorced from a good man. But it's the past that keeps lingering. Told primarily from Sabrina's POV, with a couple of chapters from Abraham, we get to experience a college student falling for her professor and then finding the man that she shares two beautiful children with. The love of the past is forbidden and comes on strong with an instant connection with Abraham. You could feel the push and pull of their relationship right from the start. But when we are brought to the present, you know that their relationship ended. As we get the past and present, we slowly receive morsels of the love story that barely got to blossom before it died out. But that's the thing about recognizing one's own soul. Sometimes you have to make difficult decisions in order to find the happy that always seemed just out of reach. And while this is Sabrina's story, the couple chapters we got from Abraham's POV were eye opening while being a little heartbreaking as well.
I feel like this story was my crack. It was so relatable and exquisitely written. There was a pulse within the story that you could feel beating through your veins as you experienced everything that Sabrina did. It took us on a crash course of what it feels like to live for oneself. To make snap decisions, but also live with them. To make the right decisions for ones own happiness. It was full of angst and pain, but also beauty. The one thing I wanted was for it to be just a little longer in the present, but it still left me satisfied and longing for just a little bit more.
If you like:
Angst
Age gap
Professor/Student
Second Chances
You will LOVE this story. It packs a punch for the length of the story and it is beautiful! This author and her books are like a little hidden gem. Highly Recommend (and to note, this book will be rebranded soon, so don't miss out on Another Life coming soon).