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Leah Lockhart is an OB-GYN who is the latest in a proud line of doctors. Her father has just retired from their family practice and she is taking over. But her carefully planned life gets thrown off course when she suddenly develops a bad case of vertigo. And an astrology reading done “just for fun” with her cousin and some friends tells her that she isn’t living in line with what her star signs indicate she should be doing.
Frustrated and scared by having to put her work on hold for a while to resolve her vertigo, Leah is particularly annoyed with the astrology claim. It’s a bunch of nonsense. And she decides she has some time to prove it wrong.
Leah starts seeking “star twins”: people who were born with her exact astrology signs. She’s going to gather as much data as possible from them and compare if they are all experiencing similar ups and downs in life.
The journey takes her to Italy and even Istanbul, and Leah has to face some hard truths in her life, whether or not they were written “in the stars.”
I enjoyed All the Signs early on, when it seemed more like it was taking astrology as a jumping-off point. It was a way for the character to make some changes in how she approached life. But for me, I felt it dashed off and ran with the conceit and made it a mission to essentially “convert” this character (and even readers). Leah was made to change from only relying on scientific facts to believing completely in what I, personally, also consider (and still do, despite reading this whole novel) a bunch of woo-woo. I think it would have worked better to allow Leah to grow and embrace more of life and find fulfillment thanks to the starting point of astrology but not make the story completely rooted in astrology. That may be just me, but there it is.
I also felt that the side characters, like Leah’s father, mother, and cousin, were not well developed. They were important parts in her story but were pretty one-dimensional. And the resolutions with them were too quick and easy, as I saw it. First, everything was fine with them; next, everything was bad with them; and last, everything was fine again.
All the Signs had a cute concept, with some nice travel to enjoy and a sweet romance angle, but I think it could have been a lot better.
Rated: Moderate. (On the line of high for the profanity) Profanity includes 6 uses of strong language, around 20 instances of moderate profanity, about 10 uses of mild language, and about 20 instances of the name of Deity in vain. Sexual content includes kissing; anything more is only implied.
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