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Reviewed by Jose Cornelio for Readers' Favorite
Hey You! The Story of a Special Love & Friendship Between Generations... by David Liam Michaels is an engaging tale of love and friendship that brought tears to my eyes. In this novel, the author explores an angle of relationships that is hardly present in romance: the love between two people with a huge age gap. Joe has the habit of sitting at the coffee shop where he enjoys a cup of coffee while reading the news and watching people come in and out. It is here that he meets Corinne Alexander, a little girl, cute and “wholesome-looking with platinum blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail,” and he finds it hard to take his eyes off her. Then he gets the opportunity to do a little kindness for her — even as she appears rude at first. And that is how a special friendship starts between them, a friendship that eventually leads to love, so sweet and endearing that it will have any reader rooting for the two.
This is a wonderful story and I loved the fact that the author creates a powerful bond between two people with little to pull them together from the beginning. At first, Corinne looks at Joe as an irritating old man, wasting her time and intruding. She is irritated when he calls her Little One, not knowing that she will adore him calling her “Pumpkin” and it is so sweet when he does so. She is a student in a community school majoring in Literature and I liked how Joe manages to get the conversation moving fluidly with her. Hey You! The Story of a Special Love & Friendship Between Generations is a wonderful story of a bond between two individuals. The writing is fluid and the narrative is in the first person. Joe’s perspective brings the humor that makes the story enjoyable. Well-plotted, skillfully written, and emotionally engaging. It is a book that will teach many readers powerful lessons on true love and friendship.
