One True Loves

I AM ABSOLUTELY RUINED GOODBYE

despite how emotionally wrecking this book is, i couldn't put it down. TJR's writing shines in this book as you are drawn into emma blair's life story and can't wait to find out what happens next, or how the characters are going to deal with the situation. i felt everything emma was going through despite not going through a single thing she had, and felt genuine anxiety when jesse resurfaced at the worst possible time.

while navigating the whole being married and engaged scenario definitely made this a worthwhile read, what really drove home how much i loved this book was how we saw emma grow over the years. whether that was through her relationship with her family's bookstore, or with her sister, or even with herself and how she started listening to what she really wanted, deep down, it was amazing to see her character adapt and change. the ending made perfect sense, but it also had me wrecked.

TJR... bring me more

*♾/5. this book..I'm so speechless rn. Once I started this, It was SO hard to put down. Everytime I did put it down, I just wanted to pick it right back up again. This story was so beautiful & I'm so grateful that I had the chance to read it. I loved the characters, especially the main character. I..idk I just know that I love this book so much..it was so beautiful and astounding. This is a story that I'll always be thinking about. A story that'll always be with me ❤️‍

sigh I wanted to love this book. The premise of losing your true love and then having them come back to life is so intriguing to me. But I didn't like this story. First, the writing for the first half of the book was “this happened, then that happened, I felt this way”. I feel more connected to the story when I'm shown what is happening rather than being told. Second, I didn't like Emma. This could be due to the style this book was written in. I couldn't connect with her or understand her reasons for doing certain things. There was pre-Jesse Emma, with-Jesse Emma, and then post-Jesse Emma, who was a complete opposite of the person she was before Jesse disappeared, which made it hard to believe some of the decisions she made because they seemed out of her character. I don't want to give anything away so don't click on this if you don't want to be spoiled: I viewed her life with her first love as thrilling and passionate, whereas the life with her second love seemed dull and boring, as if she was just settling. I was #TeamJesse from the very beginning and it was painful to see Emma give up on him so easily. I felt like she had become comfortable in her life with Sam after Jesse "died" and she didn't want to let go of that. I find it hard to believe that you can so easily walk away from someone you've loved for a good majority of your life without even really trying to see if it could still work.

I'm not happy with how this one ended. It was a decent story that had the potential to be great but it just left me disappointed and wishing that I hadn't stayed up until 2 a.m. to finish it.

What a heartbreaking decision Emma had to make. This one will stay with me for a long time.

I have read this book twice now and it gets better each time. It breaks my heart each time. Beautifully told story of heartbreak and impossible choices. I love the support Emma gets from her family. I just love everything about this book.

Spectacular. This book flew by and honestly I wished I could live in this world a little longer. The whole premise of having a husband disappear, find new love, and have your husband come back was so thought provoking. I loved Emma so much, I connected with her on such a deep level of finding herself and growing up. Each of the two loves was also very real. Taylor Jenkins Reid does characters like no other author. Everyone in this book felt REAL and just made me feel so cozy. Jessie and Emma's farewell was bittersweet but needed. They both needed to grow up and realize the true love they had was still real, even though it didn't last forever. Sam was perfect and I love him in every way. Emma's growth was so genuine, how she had dreams, pursued them, and then felt at place home with her family and her bookstore (and how she loved reading at the end!) The lines that Jesse and Emma say to each other at the end, “I am who I am because I loved you once” was so perfect and representative of the novel. TJR does it again, flawless. 

Its one of those books that you need to make sure you have enough time to finish it in a go. One of those books, that hides nothing of true, real emotions and feelings. It doesn't make you feel that this couldn't be real, is far fetched, but it could... And Sam is sooo unreal, but there are men like him out there.

I am starting to fall in love with TJR books, not because of her speech, or her choose of words, but because she can give you full raw emotions, both good and ugly. Yes, I cant give this book a 5, but it's really good, really fast pasted, and keeps you hooked to that storyline.

And please, save yourself from the spoilers. It doesn't really matter who she chooses at the end, nothing will make her choice 100% OK, not matter what it is. For me it was what I hoped for, but after I reflected on her other choice, I felt the sorrow, the unfairness of all...

This was the first TJR book that I've read. Definitely a great story. I knew right from the start who I wanted Emma to choose in the end and I was happy that it turned out how I wanted it to. This book made me really think...do we only have one true love in our lives? Will definitely be reading more from this author.

Ik vond dit echt een sad story. Ik heb een aantal keer echt met een steek in m'n maag dit gelezen. Het was soms zo sad. Ik vond het erg leuk om het leven voor Jesse, tijdens Jessie en na Jessie te lezen.
Nadat Jesse terugkwam vond ik hem echt een eikel. Hij was heel erg egoïstisch en ook wat hij tegen Emma zei (bijvoorbeeld “dit zijn mijn nichtjes”) ugh. Ik vond hem echt niet leuk. Ik hoopte dat ze voor Sam zou gaan, want Sam was heel veel liever voor haar. Gelukkig heeft ze dat gedaan, anders had ik dit boek niet zo goed gevonden als ik het nu vind. Niet het beste boek van Taylor, maar wel een erg mooi verhaal.