A Forty Year Kiss

Book 55 of my 2025 Reading Challenge

read from July 17 - 24

A Forty Year Kiss by Nickolas Butler

published 2025

Summary (via the book jacket)

Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles, even though the love didn't quite die. When Charlie returns to Wisconsin forty years later, he's not sure what he'll find. He is sure of one thing - he must try to reconnect with Vivian to pick up the broken pieces of their past. But forty years is a long time. It's forty years of other relationships, forty years of building new lives, and forty years of long-held regrets, mistakes, and painful secrets.

My Opinion

3 stars

I attended a reading and got my book signed by the author in Ames, Iowa earlier this year.  The book itself is really pretty with the pink/purple gradient along the outside of the pages.

This is the second book I've read by this author (Shotgun Lovesongs was a 5 star read for me) and I really like his writing style and character development.  The main reason I gave it 3 stars is because the major surprise of the book is a pretty big thing and I can't believe there wasn't at least a moment of discomfort between the characters after the discovery.