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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
I loved this book! It was so beautifully written. As other readers have mentioned, it does give Nicholas Sparks’ Notebook vibes. It’s a book about love standing through the test of time. This is now one of my favorites!
The story follows Ellie and Jack, two young teens who meet each other and fall in love over the course of a summer, but get separated and go different ways, only to reconnect again when they are older.
I enjoyed it, and I felt it had some charming moments, but I also felt there could have been more. It really had the potential to be such a strong heartfelt beautiful story.
It read very much like Nicholas Spark’s The Notebook and I couldn’t help but compare a lot throughout my reading.
I liked the fact that it was a quick and easy read, and I really enjoyed the ending. It just didn’t end up being the book that deeply moved me as I hoped it would.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
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
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Way too predictable and it read like a script for a Hallmark movie….
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Thank you Buck Turner and NetGalley! This book was like a cold lemonade on a hot summer day. It gave you a little bit of sour that made you shiver just a little bit and then finished off with all the sweetness you could ask for. I was worried for a minute that this was going to be another book where a woman gives up her dreams but Buck writes a story that beautifully shows how we can have it all. Compromise, passion and undying love can make all things possible me.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Book club pick. (So stop reading Sydney!) I'm just going to start typing and hopefully will form some coherent thoughts about this along the way.
The story/romance between Ellie and Jack was engaging even if the writing was only decent. I can see why this is getting comparisons to The Notebook, even though I thought this was way less sappy than any Sparks.
My big complaint to Matt when I was finished? The romance was too realistic. I KNOW. Long distance is hard! Having different goals in life than your partner is hard! Being a grown up and making grown-up decisions is hard! There were no fake relationships or secret dukes!
Turner describes himself in his author bio as an author of romance novels, but romance novels as a genre have requirements, which he did not meet. If he had lopped off the first and last chapters and just let it be set in the 1950s and 60s, it would have met them. I don't know why he thought we needed to know in the last chapter. It took the previous chapter's satisfactory ending, and instead made my face do this:
The story/romance between Ellie and Jack was engaging even if the writing was only decent. I can see why this is getting comparisons to The Notebook, even though I thought this was way less sappy than any Sparks.
My big complaint to Matt when I was finished? The romance was too realistic. I KNOW. Long distance is hard! Having different goals in life than your partner is hard! Being a grown up and making grown-up decisions is hard! There were no fake relationships or secret dukes!
Turner describes himself in his author bio as an author of romance novels, but romance novels as a genre have requirements, which he did not meet. If he had lopped off the first and last chapters and just let it be set in the 1950s and 60s, it would have met them. I don't know why he thought we needed to know in the last chapter