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Dearest Josephine
by Caroline George
I liked this book. Was it a little confusing? Yes. Was the romance a little weird in my opinion? Yes. Was it a little slow in places? Yes. Did the ending make up for the confusion and weird romance? For the most part.
At the beginning I was very interested. I love books set in Europe (specifically Paris and Scotland/England). I loved watching Josie find these letters and realize that this girl 200 years ago was exactly like her. I was really into wondering if there was some time travel/time loop thing inside Cadwallader. The middle slowed way down for me. We just kind of got stuff from the novel, stuff from Elias and Josie confused about everything. The ending though really brought it back together and was actually pretty adorable.
Josie was a really great character for the most part. She was grieving the loss of her father, the parent she was closest with. It really, really affected her and while she was looking for someone to fill that void, she found Elias's letters addressed to someone from 200 years ago with her same name. The only thing I couldn't wrap my head around was how hard Josie fell for Elias, someone who had to have died hundreds of years earlier. The similarities between Josie and Josephine were uncanny. We never really meet Josephine in the "real" part (the letters), we just get Elias's pining and descriptions of her. I think my favorite character was Oliver, Cadwallader's caretakers grandson. He was absolutely adorable.
The mixed media of this book was very interesting. We have emails between Josie and her best friend Faith who she kind of shut out of her life when her dad got sick and she's reconnecting, text messages, letters from Elias to Josephine, and a novel written by Elias. At first, I thought the novel was based on truth. It starts when Elias and Josephine meet, so halfway through the book I thought that was actually how they met and I was just really confused until I realized that we had not been told how they actually met yet. I liked the emails, but at times it didn't feel like 2 friends talking to each other, it felt like someone writing a story.
This book was very quotable. There were many amazing, heartfelt quotes in this book and I really loved how they made me think.
At the beginning I was very interested. I love books set in Europe (specifically Paris and Scotland/England). I loved watching Josie find these letters and realize that this girl 200 years ago was exactly like her. I was really into wondering if there was some time travel/time loop thing inside Cadwallader. The middle slowed way down for me. We just kind of got stuff from the novel, stuff from Elias and Josie confused about everything. The ending though really brought it back together and was actually pretty adorable.
Josie was a really great character for the most part. She was grieving the loss of her father, the parent she was closest with. It really, really affected her and while she was looking for someone to fill that void, she found Elias's letters addressed to someone from 200 years ago with her same name. The only thing I couldn't wrap my head around was how hard Josie fell for Elias, someone who had to have died hundreds of years earlier. The similarities between Josie and Josephine were uncanny. We never really meet Josephine in the "real" part (the letters), we just get Elias's pining and descriptions of her. I think my favorite character was Oliver, Cadwallader's caretakers grandson. He was absolutely adorable.
The mixed media of this book was very interesting. We have emails between Josie and her best friend Faith who she kind of shut out of her life when her dad got sick and she's reconnecting, text messages, letters from Elias to Josephine, and a novel written by Elias. At first, I thought the novel was based on truth. It starts when Elias and Josephine meet, so halfway through the book I thought that was actually how they met and I was just really confused until I realized that we had not been told how they actually met yet. I liked the emails, but at times it didn't feel like 2 friends talking to each other, it felt like someone writing a story.
This book was very quotable. There were many amazing, heartfelt quotes in this book and I really loved how they made me think.