Published by Aria Fiction
Publication Date: 14th April 2022
Genre: Womens Fiction, Romance
My thanks to the publisher Aria Fiction for the opportunity to read this book ahead of publication. The opinions given in this review are entirely my own and are unbiased.
Book Description:
He loves me... He loves me not... He loves me...
Gemma knows that she and Finn are destined to be together. They are soulmates. But then, on their wedding day, he never arrives at the church.
Gemma is convinced Finn wouldn't abandon her like this, even though he has disappeared once before. But back then he had a reason. She feels sure something terrible has happened, but no one else is convinced. Even the police aren't concerned, telling Gemma most people who disappear usually turn up in a week... assuming they want to be found, that is.
For the next six days Gemma frantically searches for Finn, even though every shocking revelation is telling her to give up on him. Before long, even she begins to doubt her own memories of their love.
How long can she hold on to her faith in Finn if everyone is telling her to let him go?
My Thoughts:
This book was exactly the type of read I needed, at just the right time. As a self-confessed cynic when it comes to all things 'big white wedding' I was the first to think the worst of Finn Douglas as I read the early chapters detailing how he left his bride-to-be Gemma Fletcher at the altar in all her wedding day finery. I wasn't alone, as Gemma's chief bridesmaid and best friend Hannah (not Finn's biggest fan at the best of times) also tried to rein in her opinions of the situation they found themselves in so as not to upset Gemma any more than necessary. But Gemma cannot conceive that Finn would do this to her. She knows him better than anyone - even better than he knows himself. They're soulmates, destined to be together. He wouldn't just walk out on her! But it looks like he just did...
Six Days follows Gemma as she desperately tries to track down what happened to Finn from the moment he left his friends at his stag night. It's emotional, funny and heart breaking in equal measures. Dani Atkins takes us right back to the start of the couple's relationship, in a busy car park with only one space left - but it's not just the parking space they're in competition for. We follow the stop-start nature of things between them as life, Fate and Cupid all step in, each with their own idea of whether the couple are destined to be life partners - or not.
I could happily have read this book in one sitting given the opportunity. The easy, flowing writing style draws you right in for a big hug of a storyline. I changed my opinion of Finn several times along the way, undecided as to whether his absence at the church was intentional or not. The book could easily have become cluttered with superfluous characters, but the author kept the cast tightly in check with just those people significant in the story in the spotlight.
One of my favourite titles of the year so far, I award Six Days 5 large, very glittery stars.
About the Author:
Dani Atkins is an award-winning novelist. Her 2013 debut Fractured (published as Then and Always in North America) has been translated into seventeen languages and has sold more than half a million copies since first publication in the UK.
Dani is the author of five other bestselling novels The Story of Us, Our Song, This Love, While I Was Sleeping and A Million Dreams) and Perfect Strangers, a standalone eBook novella. In 2018, This Love won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award at the RNA awards in London.
Dani lives in a small village in Hertfordshire with her husband, one Siamese cat and a very soppy Border Collie.
Follow Dani on twitter @AtkinsDani or get in touch on Facebook at www.facebook.com/daniatkinsauthor
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