One True Loves

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.