Robbins is an excellent writer and in THERE IS NOTHING STRANGE she gives us compelling and realistic characters. I love stories that have vignettes that overlap, but are not fully integrated, so this was perfect for me.

At first, I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy "There is Nothing Strange." I had a hard time connecting to the characters, but eventually, the story picked up and made it well worth my time. Laura and Jeremy are two young twenty-somethings, getting married, but in the background is Jeremy's friend, Henry, who insists that he will someday be Laura's "second husband." Laura's parents, Rebecca and Weldon, have been married for over twenty years, but have been separated on and off for a good deal of that time. The book focuses not only on Rebecca and Weldon's difficult marital struggles, but also alarming events that take place on Laura's honeymoon. She returns home to her parents, tattered and torn, in a state of shock and can't entirely explain what happened to her. The ever-loyal Henry is there to attempt to restore her to her former self. The prose is excellent. The story comes together in a heartfelt, realistic way. A slow burn book - worth the initial efforts.

Thank you to the author and publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The book starts with the wedding of Laura and Jeremy. Their best friend, Henry, is also in love with Laura and makes it abundantly clear Jeremy and Laura will divorce and Laura will marry him. No wonder I was hooked from the first page!

There are other relationships just as odd as the love triangle the book opened with. I read this in a few hours because I didn’t want to put it down! Every turn of the page had me wondering what crazy and wonderful thing would happen next!

Seriously slow and boring. I tried to muddle thru but it was ridiculous.