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bxnny's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Medical content, Gaslighting, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Pregnancy
daniofthewood's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Death and Grief
Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Biphobia, Confinement, Alcohol, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia
rcmckane's review
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.0
Moderate: Death
Minor: Grief
graceybookster's review
5.0
Moderate: Grief, Death, and Suicidal thoughts
gwenswoons's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, and Death
kelinkc's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Grief, Death, and Sexual content
birtch's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Grief and Injury/Injury detail
nicolecurlsuptoread's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
š Youāll dig this if you like
Emma and Jesse were high school sweethearts, all the firsts! They build a life together away from their families and the day before their first wedding anniversary, Jesse takes a work trip and is assumed dead when his helicopter crashes in the Pacific.
Almost four years later, he calls Emma to tell her heās alive and heās coming home to her. Except, sheās engaged now to the guy whoās loved her since high school.
This book ruined me. I havenāt had a good book hangover in a while and One True Loves did it. It was devastating and tragic and beautiful and all the adjectives that can be used to describe a book that will stay with you.
The romance was secondary to the themes of loss, grief, and how to move forward. Then, how to choose between the loves of your life. What do you do when youāve always believed in one true love, but you have two?
š What stood out
Ā» The chapter when Emma goes back home. Moving from the story being in the first person, then as if itās being narrated from above, like an out of body experience, helped me connect to the grief piece. Thatās what it feels like, and it was perfectly captured.
Ā» In the prologue, Emma talks about everyoneās life having a moment that splits it into before and after, pre and post. The poignancy of that concept was visceral for me. I know my moment and can recall it with stunning clarity. I was hooked by and connected with One True Loves from page 6.
š Moments
Let me leave you with this moral of the story quote:
"There is nothing more romantic than this. Holding the very person that you thought you lost, and knowing you'll never lose them again. I don't think that true love means your only love. I think true love means loving truly. Loving purely. Loving wholly."
Graphic: Grief, Death, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Infidelity
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
xgabrielle_hx's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Grief, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Sexual content
Minor: Injury/Injury detail
greatestheights's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Grief
Moderate: Grief