Twenty-Seven

De: P.L. Hernandez

Narrado por: Khadijah Jabari

How much can you live in 365 days?

Waking up in the hospital on her 27th birthday was only the beginning of the longest year of Jax Cassidy’s life.

A traveling music photographer, Jax never stays in one place too long. But when a car accident leaves her with a life-altering injury, everything comes to a screeching halt. As she struggles to adjust to a new normal, her past returns to complicate her future. A hometown boy from her childhood, and an old flame she thought she’d left behind both reemerge, presenting her with two enticing variations of forever.

Past and present collide into a single transformative year as Jax navigates her complicated relationships and stumbles her way through a journey of healing and self-discovery. To have the future she wants, Jax realizes she’ll have to face the heartbreaks and demons she’s been running from all her life.

How much can you live in 365 days? Jax is about to find out.

©2022 P.L. Hernandez (P)2025 P.L. Hernandez

EMOTIONAL & AMAZING READ

PL Hernandez has such pose! I was sucked in and immersed in the world from the very start of it. Her poetic telling makes you immersed in the story and wanting to know what is going on next.

Well, I think it’s always best to go into a book blind, I do recommend this book to check triggers if you are someone who needs to check trigger warnings!

I would classify this as women’s fiction with a dash of romance. It was so well done, and it made me contemplate life and the joy of it in the complexity of it, and embracing the beautiful mess that it is. And that life can be beautiful despite the bad that happens to you.

This made me weep and was such a beautiful important reminder to love the life we are given .

A stunning PL Hernandez story brought life by audio

If you’ve never read a story by PL Hernandez, you need to rectify that immediately. Hernandez is writing is beautiful and lyrical and will make you have deep thoughts about your life.

Per usual, I had my highlighter ready to highlight all the quotes where P.L. Hernandez spoke to my soul. Patty's writing is lyrical, emotional, beautiful poetry on page. P.L. Hernandez writes humanity in a way that feels so real (as if she ripped my experience out of head and put it down on paper) which makes it a very emotional reading experience. True story that I did a bookends cry of this book. I cried during the dedication and during the acknowledgment section.

This book touches on some heavy topics (check your trigger warnings if you need it), but I hope that those who have been through similar situations feel seen through Patty's writing. So often, we like to shy away from the hard stuff, but it's so important to feel seen and loved through our worst days. Patty puts that feeling into writing on the page. And I love that mental health struggles and therapy are always normalized in Patty's writing.

Now, let's talk about the story. Hernandez takes us on a one year journey where Jax Cassidy goes through it. This story is about a woman who got lost somewhere along the way and comes to terms with past traumatic incidents so that she can move on with her life in a healthy way. It's also a second-chance Romance and a story about how the people that love Jax most come together over their mutual worry and love for her.

I was very honored to have an advanced listener copy of the newly dropped audiobook of Twenty Seven. The narrator really brought Jax to life, and I thought she did such a great job with the British accents.

Some of my favorite quotes:

“That’s it. You’re not the bad shit that happens to you. You’re not the sum of your misfortunes. You’re a collection of beautiful moments and grandiose experiences, and a life told through pictures, and this – crap hand you’ve been dealt, it’s just that. It’s a crap hand. It doesn’t define who you are or how you live your life.”

“He wrote the most gorgeous strings of words and when he sang them, he made me sad in a way that made me love the sadness.”

“Love. A little four-letter word. It’s supposed to mean that someone chooses you. Every day, over and over, they accept you for all that you are and all that you aren’t, in any given moment – at every given moment – for the rest of your life. I think that’s what motivates people to get married. Everyone’s always searching for it. Everyone’s always chasing it.”

Being 30 sucks

Apparently I don’t like to cry but I also like to cry. I don’t know how expensive lawyers are but I’m about to find out.