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Title: Just Look Up

Author: Courtney Walsh

Narrator: Matilda Novak

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-04-17

Publisher: Two Words Publishing, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

After tirelessly climbing the ranks of her Chicago-based interior design firm, Lane Kelley is about to land her dream promotion when devastating news about her brother draws her back home - a quaint tourist town full of memories she'd just as soon forget. With her cell phone and laptop always within reach, Lane aims to check on her brother while staying focused on work - something her eclectic family doesn't understand.

Ryan Brooks never expected to settle down in Harbor Pointe, Michigan, but after his final tour of duty, it was the only place that felt like home. Now knee-deep in a renovation project that could boost tourism for the struggling town, he is thrilled to see Lane, the girl he secretly once loved, even if the circumstances of her homecoming aren't ideal.

Their reunion gets off to a rocky start, however, when Ryan can't find a trace of the girl he once knew in the woman she is today. As he slowly chips away at the walls Lane has built, secrets from his past collide with a terrible truth even he is reluctant to believe. Facing a crossroads that could define his future with Lane and jeopardize his relationship with the surrogate family he's found in the Kelleys, Ryan hopes Lane can see that maybe what really matters has been right in front of her all along - if only she'd just look up.

Members Reviews:

A great book that works on different levels

I requested a review copy of Just Look Up because Iâd heard so many good things about it. Surely it couldnât possibly measure up?

It did.

Lane is an interior designer up for a big promotion at work when her mother calls to say her brother is on life support following a motorcycle accident. She returns home, but is immediately thrown into conflict with everyone in her family (except perhaps her father, who only gets about two lines in the whole novel). The reasons behind this conflict are gradually revealed as the novel progresses

Ryan was also in the motorcycle accident, but escaped with minor injuries. Heâs from a bad background, but heâs made something of himselfâwith the help of the Kelley family, who were surrogate parents for him and his sister throughout his teenage years. Heâs always had feelings for Lane, but never felt good enough for her. Now he meets the adult Lane, he realises she has issues, and he might be able to help.

Just Look Up was a great title that worked on many levels.

There was the obvious, that we have to look up to see the world around us, to live. Lane spent much of time looking down at her phone that she missed what was going on around her. And the more subtle, the way Lane consciously or subconsciously looked down on herself.

It seemed to me that looking down was a habit formed early in her teenage years, where she looked down because of her low self-esteem. I could relate to thisâand I suspect many grown women can, especially those of us who were bookish teenagers who were never part of the âcoolâ crowd.

To me, Just Look Up showed the lie that many of us believe in our teenage years.

The lie that we donât fit in because arenât good enough.