Book Review - The Promise by Emma Heatherington

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Title: The Promise

Author: Emma Heatherington

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: One More Chapter

Publication Date: 14th October 2021

Rating: 5 Stars

Some bonds can never be broken

One terrible moment changes everything for teenagers Kate and David. Brought together during the darkest of times, a spark of hope is ignited between them – a hand held in the darkness, a promise whispered. Neither of them will ever forget those moments.

It’s another ten years before they meet once more, and their lives are now so different. The promise they made to each other on that fateful day still binds them, but now they have so much more to lose.

Have they missed their one chance at happiness? They only way they will ever know is to risk everything to be together. Is that too high a price to pay for love…?

This felt at times like a modern day Romeo and Juliet story.. and at any rate it was a complete epic. 

I really wasn't sure which way it would end up, I would have believed pretty much any ending, as there were so many possibilities. 

Set in Northern Ireland starting during the time of The Troubles, one explosive day, changed the course of Kate and David's lives forever.  We then meet them 10 years later and get to see how their lives have changed and from then on, we get snapshots are regular intervals of what each of them is doing. 

The book is written from both perspectives and it is really easy to mentally switch between them both.  And Kate and David really are clearly connected but also know that their ultimate destiny and happiness could be completely impossible due to their families and differences in upbringings. 

This is turning out to be an impossible book to review without spoilers, so I'm just going to say that the story will have you thinking, it may have you researching more about what was really like during The Troubles, and it will grip you completely. 

I suspect I'll be thinking about Kate and David for many days to come, and it really is a powerful and must read book. 

Thank you to One More Chapter and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.