Her Best Self

Janelle Wolf is married to Charles and she has two children, and thirty years ago she had a car accident. It had a devastating impact on her life, broken bones, internal bleeding and a brain injury, her memories of the past are gone and nothing has been the same since. Lana O’Shield is a psychic hea......more

This was a NetGalley selection, from an author with whom I was unfamiliar, so I had no expectations beyond the official description. The story began slowly - almost too slowly for my general taste - but it really picked up steam and created tension along with the development of the characters and th......more

No surprise to learn from a bio of Mindy Friddle that, like another writer from the same neck of the woods, Pat Conroy, she hails from the Carolinas. No surprise because fictitious Haven, S.C., is the locale for her latest novel, “Her Best Self,” in which the protagonist, Janelle Wolf, is striving t......more

This book reads as more of a thriller/mystery than literary fiction. Background is revealed slowly to fill in the missing pieces of the situation upon which the story opens. It’s the kind of reveal style that I like, one where the reader knows something major has happened, but doesn’t know the detai......more

I've been a fan of Mindy's since "Garden Angel" and when I read her novels I know I'll be plunged into an immersive, and compelling fictional experience. But she's outdone herself with "Her Best Self." Janelle Wolf was in a car accident and since that time, she hasn't been the same. All kinds of que......more