Miles Cookson was a sperm donor but now he has a terminal illness and wants to find his adult children. Follow Miles as he searches for them before his time runs out.
I found Find You First to have the 3 e’s - engaging, enjoyable and entertaining. Although this novel deals with terminal illness and characters who disappear or are killed, it is easy reading because Linwood writes so smoothly. He writes about current times, attitudes and social issues in a soothing style like listening to a radio phone-in programme. All the lifestyle trigger points are covered, for example landlines, burner phones, following Gwyneth Paltrow on Twitter, binge-watching TV, teenagers at home with their mobile phones and ear buds, who text or email with voice calls the last option, Airbnb, Nespresso, and Google Alerts.
There were a lot of twists and turns through this story, lots of finger pointing and a fair range of good and bad characters. These characters gave Linwood the room for subtle humour which made me chuckle, for example…
He’d be ruined professionally. The clinic would be shut down. God, he might even face criminal charges. He’d be lucky to have a job as a Walmart greeter by the time the dust settled.
“You get to a certain age you can throw your back out just wiping your ass.”
Maybe this was what marriage was, Gilbert mused. Unrelenting unhappiness, but at least you had someone to talk to.
“Four stops, four days. Like I’m Drake on tour.”
… I found the plot of Find You First to be okay but the really clever bits were from the beginning and as the story unfolded, slowly but steadily the intriguing elements reduced to a mediocre race to the end. I think Find You First is a GOOD 4 star read but I did not enjoy it as much as his previous book Elevator Pitch.
Thanks to Netgalley and HQ the publisher for providing an ARC on the understanding that I write a review.
Find You First was written in 2021 and is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook.
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