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tpanik's review against another edition
2.0
Disappointing, overall. The characters take too long to change their lives and embrace epiphanies that are beyond obvious to the reader.
devon's review against another edition
5.0
This book has no great romance, there is no mystery for the reader to solve nor is it laugh out loud funny. What it is is a quaint story about love, life, loss and how the choices we make effect us and those around us.
Just days before his wedding to his long time girlfriend Josh Everett reveals to his somewhat estranged sister, Emmy, that he is also in love with someone else. This comes as a shocking blow to Emmy who once found herself on the opposite side of that coin, not only because she has been there before herself but also because she is maid of honor and best friend to Josh's fiance Meryl. However, when Josh makes it clear that he needs to see this other woman one last time and wants Emmy to join him she obliges and soon sees that sometimes life's choices are not always black and white.
Laura Dave is a great storyteller who keeps the reader invested in the characters that she has created. The story is well paced, never drags and is not overdone. I will definitely be on the look out for more titles by this author!
Just days before his wedding to his long time girlfriend Josh Everett reveals to his somewhat estranged sister, Emmy, that he is also in love with someone else. This comes as a shocking blow to Emmy who once found herself on the opposite side of that coin, not only because she has been there before herself but also because she is maid of honor and best friend to Josh's fiance Meryl. However, when Josh makes it clear that he needs to see this other woman one last time and wants Emmy to join him she obliges and soon sees that sometimes life's choices are not always black and white.
Laura Dave is a great storyteller who keeps the reader invested in the characters that she has created. The story is well paced, never drags and is not overdone. I will definitely be on the look out for more titles by this author!
kreesta's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
3.5
purnima22's review against another edition
2.0
I kept waiting for the story to start and go somewhere.
Idea had potential but took a predictable route to conclusion.
Idea had potential but took a predictable route to conclusion.
lauren9teen87's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
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? Yes
3.0
jasminenoack's review against another edition
5.0
Hey look I read a totally chicklitty book and liked it. Actually I don't really know what chick lit is but I am worried this might be it. I mean it is clearly a book for women... but lets pretend I'm not embarrassed to have read it.
100... Yay 100... I can calm down I am not a failure.
Okay I liked this book. I as a general rule like any book about relationships in which the resolution is fuzzy at best and everyone is constantly making the wrong decision.
I think that this really comes down to the fact that I really experience those types of books that I really battle with those issues on a day to day basis. I wrote once in another review: "a relationship of love can never be quite as perfect as a relationship of compromise." I'm sure at the time I was talking about the book and it was relevant, but I think it is also a statement about myself.
These days we all grow up in a world where people are constantly getting divorced and changing their minds and falling out of love. I mean did our great grandparents go around falling out of love? it doesn't seem like it. The entire foundation of relationships it just seems shakey. and there isn't much that's worse than standing on shakey ground.
There is a quote I have remembered since high school although I forgot the author long ago that goes something like "tread lightly the crust is thin." For years the world has really felt this way for me. Like If I tried to hard, if I really wanted the world was going to break. So I stayed quiet and I waited and I hoped that everything would turn out on its own.
This book is about that. It is about not wanting to make decisions. Wanting to be in love, wanting to end up in the right, wanting everything to work out, but not being willing to shake the boat to make that happen. It's about how you get what you want without stepping on someone else to get it.
I have this guy, who for years I've had some kind of a thing with. And in reality that thing is nothing. I've dated over the top of it, he's considered dating although I don't think it's worked out. We've gone through long periods of not speaking. There is a funny point in this book where Laura says 75% of relationships are ended by women, it might be the man's fault but he waits for the woman to actually end it. This book is really about that waiting. It's about how nothing will ever be over till you say it's over. It's about the fact that sooner or later someone has to say "put up or shut up" and without that, the thing, that background of I'll always love you it kinda haunts you.
I like this book because I relate to that. I know what it's like to try to move on with your life while you are dealing with a ghost like that. I know that it's impossible. For me a book like this isn't about me wanting what's best for the character it's about the book being a lens to see myself. I don't cheer for the guy proposing at the... okay that movie it was some sports game... I wonder what would I do? It's a book that for me at least I think made me think. It didn't make me change, I won't leave this review and go tell him to "put up or shut up". But I'll have a better idea what is happening for me, and maybe for him to.
This book begins with the quote:
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. -oscar wilde
I think that contradiction really catches the problem the book is grappling with, the problem so many of us are grappling with. Do we? can we? wait.
100... Yay 100... I can calm down I am not a failure.
Okay I liked this book. I as a general rule like any book about relationships in which the resolution is fuzzy at best and everyone is constantly making the wrong decision.
I think that this really comes down to the fact that I really experience those types of books that I really battle with those issues on a day to day basis. I wrote once in another review: "a relationship of love can never be quite as perfect as a relationship of compromise." I'm sure at the time I was talking about the book and it was relevant, but I think it is also a statement about myself.
These days we all grow up in a world where people are constantly getting divorced and changing their minds and falling out of love. I mean did our great grandparents go around falling out of love? it doesn't seem like it. The entire foundation of relationships it just seems shakey. and there isn't much that's worse than standing on shakey ground.
There is a quote I have remembered since high school although I forgot the author long ago that goes something like "tread lightly the crust is thin." For years the world has really felt this way for me. Like If I tried to hard, if I really wanted the world was going to break. So I stayed quiet and I waited and I hoped that everything would turn out on its own.
This book is about that. It is about not wanting to make decisions. Wanting to be in love, wanting to end up in the right, wanting everything to work out, but not being willing to shake the boat to make that happen. It's about how you get what you want without stepping on someone else to get it.
I have this guy, who for years I've had some kind of a thing with. And in reality that thing is nothing. I've dated over the top of it, he's considered dating although I don't think it's worked out. We've gone through long periods of not speaking. There is a funny point in this book where Laura says 75% of relationships are ended by women, it might be the man's fault but he waits for the woman to actually end it. This book is really about that waiting. It's about how nothing will ever be over till you say it's over. It's about the fact that sooner or later someone has to say "put up or shut up" and without that, the thing, that background of I'll always love you it kinda haunts you.
I like this book because I relate to that. I know what it's like to try to move on with your life while you are dealing with a ghost like that. I know that it's impossible. For me a book like this isn't about me wanting what's best for the character it's about the book being a lens to see myself. I don't cheer for the guy proposing at the... okay that movie it was some sports game... I wonder what would I do? It's a book that for me at least I think made me think. It didn't make me change, I won't leave this review and go tell him to "put up or shut up". But I'll have a better idea what is happening for me, and maybe for him to.
This book begins with the quote:
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. -oscar wilde
I think that contradiction really catches the problem the book is grappling with, the problem so many of us are grappling with. Do we? can we? wait.
mer1721's review against another edition
4.0
Overall I really enjoyed this book. Far more than I expected to. After reading so many just ok books this one really stood out for me. I enjoy books that I feel like I can relate to and this one I could. The book is about family, relationships, and figuring out who you are and where you want to be with your life. I recommend reading this one.
laura_vee's review against another edition
4.0
This was a light, breezy, easy read, which was good because I've been reading an awful lot of books about the end of the world lately!
I loved the main character, Emmy. She was someone I'd want to hang out with in real life. When I started the book, she was frozen, lost in the past of an ended relationship. As the story progressed, she began to thaw out a bit, finding herself.
I loved the main character, Emmy. She was someone I'd want to hang out with in real life. When I started the book, she was frozen, lost in the past of an ended relationship. As the story progressed, she began to thaw out a bit, finding herself.
eljabo's review against another edition
4.0
This was a light, breezy, easy read, which was good because I've been reading an awful lot of books about the end of the world lately!
I loved the main character, Emmy. She was someone I'd want to hang out with in real life. When I started the book, she was frozen, lost in the past of an ended relationship. As the story progressed, she began to thaw out a bit, finding herself.
I loved the main character, Emmy. She was someone I'd want to hang out with in real life. When I started the book, she was frozen, lost in the past of an ended relationship. As the story progressed, she began to thaw out a bit, finding herself.