Book Tour Review - Such Good People

Title: Such Good People

Author: Amy Blumenfeld

Publisher: SparkPress

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

{Thank you @booksparks #SRC2025  + Author Amy Blumendeld for the #gifted copy of Such Good People.  This one published yesterday—7/8.}

Such Good People is your next bingeable read!  It’s a compelling story that explores social injustice and inequality.  The rippling effects from one night gone wrong.  The characters are well developed and you’ll enjoy the sharp focus on friendships, marriage, and raising a family.  It’s told in a ‘Now and Then’ format from multiple POVs.  All in all I found it to be a solid read, but be forewarned I found the female main character’s nickname ‘Ape’ overused and annoying.  Man, oh man, If my name was April I would hate to be called that! 😅

—Book Summary—

It’s 10 p.m. on a Thursday in the spring of her freshman year of college, and April is standing at the back of a crowded Manhattan bar waiting for her friend, Rudy, to arrive. Their eyes lock the moment he enters the room, and in an instant, lives and legacies are altered forever.

Within hours, Rudy is arrested. Within days, April is expelled. Within weeks, he’s incarcerated. And within months, she meets Peter, a prodigious young attorney who makes her world recognizable again.

Nearly fifteen years later, April is happily living in Chicago married to Peter, a mother of three with a fulfilling career and standing yoga date with her girlfriends. On the eve of Peter’s election for local office, Rudy is up for parole. Headlines explode about April’s past, jeopardizing Peter’s campaign and everything they hold dear. Suddenly, April is faced with an impossible choice: protecting the life she created, or the person who sacrificed everything to make that life a possibility. Such Good People is a captivating portrait of blurred lines, divided loyalties, and what it means to love purely, steadfastly, and interminably.