Don’t get me wrong. ANYWHERE FOR YOU is a book I would have liked very much when I was in eighth or ninth or even tenth grade. But nearly 50 years later my taste has evolved. Now this is not for me.

I won this book through librarything.com, but I don’t think I requested it, at least not deliberately. Sometimes, with my iPhone, I accidentally press buttons that I don’t mean to. That’s what must have happened because I would not deliberately request a romance book, which I think ANYWHERE FOR YOU is. But I’ve won so many great books through librarything.com, I felt I owed it to them to read and review this one, too.

Turns out, this book is a mystery as well as a romance. Mary and Jim have been living together for six years when he suddenly disappears. Why and where did he go? Is he alive? Even after seven years, Mary still hasn’t given up on him. But her friends Alice and Kit believe she deserves an answer so look for him.

If I had been Mary, I would have assumed that Jim had either died or did not love me anymore. But, if I had thought he was alive and still loved me, I would have gone looking for him myself. But, if my friends had looked for him, I could have predicted everything that happened.

Although the romance in this book isn’t for me nowadays, the mystery is. Or, at least, it would have been if it wasn’t so darned predictable. But I give it a thumbs-up because I'm sure this book will generate lots of book club debate/conversation.