regardless of this not quite being the story i was wanting, this is really sweet and quite touching overall! because it is a really sweet message, a message that i dont think would have been possible had it ended the way i was hoping. emotions and feelings are so much complicated than that) but, the more i think about it, the more i guess im okay with it. i wasnt really buying that emma knew exactly what she wanted just after one weekend away. its going to take much more than three days to come to a life changing decision.

This book also didnt end the way i was wanting it to (i mean, lets be real. and im not a fan of emma, so i only ended up feeling bad for the two guys for what she put them through. the flashbacks are kind of just a highlight reel of each the relationships, very brief moments of love, so its difficult to become attached to anyone because there just isnt much to get invested in. i just think with a situation so emotionally devastating as finding out your husband is back from the dead, but also being engaged to someone else, there just wasnt enough depth present to read about. I think my main issue is with the way the story is set up - the first quarter is flashbacks to emma and jesse, the second quarter is flashbacks to emma and sam, and the last half is present time with both. This, unfortunately, isnt quite the great cathartic tearjerker that a person sometimes needs, buuuut it does have its charming moments. So i guess my destiny is that my husband will be presumed dead but later reappear?ĭear taylor jenkins reid, god of fluffy books, please pull me out of my reading slump. This book is about a girl named emma who loves books and lives in boston and dates a guy named sam. Reading this stressed me out so much and made me so sad that it made my life seem fully blissful by comparison. I like Taylor Jenkins Reid books a lot (or, okay, enjoy reading them more accurately), but I truly wonder at the evils of her dark and twisty mind. And then she falls in love with a DIFFERENT MAN, after MANY YEARS of SUFFERING. Have more time for my hobbies.īut anyway. Spontaneously evolved past the desire to date men, which is cool. My life has been much easier since this, I'll give you that. Which is actually a very freeing thought. The thing about this book is that it stressed me out so much and made me so upset that I would legitimately rather live my entire life alone, perhaps on a deserted island of some kind, either of the proverbial or literal variety, than live a single day in the protagonist's life.

One true loves book