Reasons to Heal

By: Jenn Matthews

Narrated by: Rachael Beresford

A beautiful lesbian romance about wants, love, family, and duty, asking when is the right time to live our own life and dreams.

English police constable Molly Blue is devastated when an assault forces her to endure weeks of therapy and disrupts her promising career. The cute physiotherapist getting her back on her feet is an intriguing distraction at least.

Physiotherapist Kudzi Mufaro is a bold, confident woman in every area of her life except one. She hasn't told her Zimbabwean parents she's gay. That probably explains the parade of men her family keeps trotting past her nose. Is it time to finally be honest?

But when Molly takes a visit home, it rocks her to the core. She is forced to decide whether to stay and look after her sister or not. It would mean giving up her career and any hope of something more with Kudzi.

Contains mature themes.

©2020 Jenn Matthews (P)2020 Tantor

Never Be Afraid to Speak your Truth

Molly is out and Proud. Kudzi is very closeted, except with her sister, brother in-law and a few friends. Molly doesn't want to have a closeted relationship, and Kudzi is adamant about not coming out to her family. They break up With Kudzi sister Cat becoming pregnant, it opens her eyes and she does come out to her family finally. Thank goodness for Lucy tricking them separately in visiting a new cafe, so they can talk, as they are both miserable and ticked off with each other at the same time. After they talk, they become official GFs. Although they love each other the actual words don't get spoken out loud for a year of being together.

Narration wasn't the best and I almost stopped listening, but glad I kept going.

Loved the two career paths!

Nice story
Great reader
Took a minute for the characters to get together
But good things happen when we are patient!

Solid book, not great but good

Stars: 4 Stars
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Rachael Beresford
Series: Stand Alone
Steam Level: Steamy

I picked up the ebook of this years ago and just never got around to reading it. Then when I was wondering around the Audible Plus catalog recently, I saw it there and decided to give it a shot.

Quick Thoughts:
- After reading this book, I’d consider it low angst even with how angsty it sounds like it should be
- The difference of ages is only seven years but it felt much larger because Molly reads very young, like just out of high school young
- As someone who has done a lot of physical therapy over the years, I understood Molly’s frustration on the slow, tedious, exacting progress
- I love rats
- Lucy was a fun character and a dang good friend
- Cat and John are the sister and brother in law that everyone needs in their lives
- Something I liked about this book is that not only is it an interracial relationship but also a multicultural relationship and both aspects play a part in the story though not as big a part as one would think
- It seemed like Kudzi’s friends were going to play a bigger part in in the book but they were barely there
- At times I wanted to shake Molly with how she just didn’t seem to sympathize with Kudzi. A lot of my enjoyment of the character lessened because of this
- On the flip side, I wanted to give Kudzi a big big hug. I understood her fear and stress
- I really liked the ending and the motivations for the changes both characters make
- The epilogue wasn’t needed but it was cute
- The two main reasons I didn’t give this book five stars is that I didn’t fully buy into them as a couple. I think it’s partly because they don’t actually spend a ton of time on page together. Also it felt like some story points were resolved too easily or didn’t really get explored
- Rachael Beresford did a great job. It was the first time I’ve listened to her and I’d be interested to see how she does narrating a different books

Overall I enjoyed this book though I wished some story points were explored more. I’m glad I listened to it and definitely recommend reading it that way.

I had to stop

The narrator is great with the English accent parts and telling the story. I really wanted to get into this book but couldn't and had to quit at chapter 5. The narrator does a South Asian (Indian) ish accent for the ZIMBABWEAN. I've never been to Zimbabwe but that accent was no where near the African continent and let me tell you, it irked me! I love lesfic that include mixed couples especially of different backgrounds. However, if the narrator can't do the accent right (which is fine, I can't do it either) just don't attempt. Speak with your natural language we'll follow. Honestly, it's terrible.

The story was also meh! I'll definitely give the author and narrator another try but not with this book. The narrator is strong with purely English books.