I don’t read nearly enough fiction, so when a colleague and close friend, Jessica Cotter, recently self-published her first book, I devoured it…uncomfortably because of our friendship. At times it felt like I was walking around in parts of her brain where I shouldn’t be! Alas, this is the risk authors take by putting themselves into a work, and that she has done.
“All The Roads” is marked with richly authentic characters, Jay and Elle, whose roads cross at romance – or is it? J. Cotter takes readers down these roads and builds anticipation of what these two characters learn during a specific time in their lives. Audiences for this novel could as easily be the twenty-something navigating that space between independence and interdependence, as much as for mature audiences looking back at the connectedness of life’s events that don’t seem so when we’re living them. For all, it is an emotional journey down the winding paths of relationship and our own place within them.
While it should not be, in this day and age, self-published thought articulated so carefully and intricately continues to be a charming surprise! I give this 4 SutterStars! Get a copy soon and support indie publishing: