After reading the blurb, I had high hopes for this book, which were unfortunately disappointed. I had hoped for an interesting character drama focused on a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship overcoming differences after the death of their son/husband. This unfortunately was not the case.

Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had not previously met, and the mother-in-law did not even know her son had married after dating the main character for just 6 months. So understandably, the mother-in-law was put off by the situation and the women who turned up at her son's deathbed. I had hoped to see the main character and her mother-in-law work through their grief and connect over this shared struggle. Instead, the mother-in-law disappears from the scene, only to reappear after some reflection, wanting to build a relationship with the daughter-in-law. While the story in and of itself was okay, I had very different expectations of what the book would be about and was therefore left disappointed.

Side note: I originally read the German version of the blurb, so this issue might be unique to the German blurb.