Hello Stranger Book Review

Hello Stranger by Katherine Center

I have been a fan of Katherine Center since my very first book review that I was asked to do for her.  Her characters are very relatable, real people and Hello Stranger continues this example.

Our main character is Sadie Montgomery, a portrait artist living on the edge of homelessness.  We find that she has a contentious relationship with her father, a disapproving of her career doctor.  

While out getting prepared for a party to celebrate her acceptance in career-altering art competition, Sadie passes out on a street corner and winds up in the hospital with a life-changing condition requiring brain surgery.  The surgery, inconveniently, needs to be completed within the same few weeks she has to finish her piece for the art competition if she's going to survive.  

After surgery to repair the defect in her brain, Sadie learns that she has acquired apperceptive prosopagnosia, also called face blindness, which is an impairment in the recognition of facial identity.  This makes is all but impossible for her to complete her piece for the competition in her traditional style.

Sadie is really blessed to have a good girlfriend in the building where she lives as well as a very interesting man, who seems to be having liaisons with many of the women in the building.  In a bizarre twist, Sadie begins a friendship with this man while having a thing for her dog's veterinarian.  

While the plot is a real life possibility, the absurdness of Sadie's relationships makes this story really amusing.  This is another hit for Katherine Center and I continue to recommend her.

I received this book from St. Martin's Press for free in exchange for an honest review.  As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.