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One Day in December by Josie Silver
5.0
TRUST ME WHEN I TELL YOU THAT THE FEELINGS THIS BOOK MADE ME FEEL SURPRISED ME.
No, I didn't expect to love this as much as I did. This has its issues but as I go through all sorts of heartbreaks and everything in between, finally reaching that ending ten years later was more than satisfying. This left me with both a smile and tears in my eyes.
This book is a story of missed chances. It follows Laurie and Jack who met one random day in December, while Laurie's seated in a bus and Jack's waiting on a bus stop. The only interaction here was one intense gaze that passed between the two of them. Laurie tried to searched for her bus boy for a whole year, with full support from her best friend, Sarah. But due to some twist of fate, she met him again one year later, as Sarah's boyfriend.
This book takes us through a decade of missed chances between the two. It was presented as love at first sight and honestly, that usually doesn't work for me so I am in awe of why this book got to me. I expected a light and cozy romance but surprise! I picked a book that put my heart through a lot of pain.
I WOULD GENUINELY UNDERSTAND THOUGH WHY SOME PEOPLE WOULD FIND THIS NOT VERY FITTING FOR THEIR TASTE.
HONEST OPINION. I know Jack can be a total Jackass and it's easy to say that he doesn't really deserve Laurie. She's too kind, too warm, too beautiful for him. But as I see everything unfolds, and as he finally finds his footing and realizes that he needs to change and be better, the only thing left really is for him to finally allow himself to love the woman he's been truly in love with for so many years.
AND I AM IN NO WAY JUSTIFYING CHEATING OF ANY FORM. There's one circumstance here that I personally consider as cheating and I HATED IT. Almost didn't continue, but they lived and suffered for that mistake.
I loved this book not just for Laurie and Jack's story actually. Just everything that happened really hit the right spot.
I loved the friendship between Laurie and Sarah. That's undeniably a once in a lifetime friendship. I love the characters' family dynamics. It really added colors to the entire novel. I love the pacing. I love how we see them grow up through the years. I love how the characters started from clueless, dreamy young adults to mature and experienced people who have went through a lot of individual challenges and learned from them. Seeing how things happen and things change through time was really impactful for me, personally.
(I even loved the other relationships in this story honestly. Rooted for those, too.)
THE WRITING WAS REALLY GOOD. This is the first time I heard about this author and this won't be the last time I would be devouring her novels. Her words just hit me right straight to the heart.
I wished we could've seen more of what comes after that last scene though. Maybe a final chapter jumping through the years showing that everything worked out fine for the two of them. I really needed for them to finally find peace and happiness after all those years.
No, I didn't expect to love this as much as I did. This has its issues but as I go through all sorts of heartbreaks and everything in between, finally reaching that ending ten years later was more than satisfying. This left me with both a smile and tears in my eyes.
This book is a story of missed chances. It follows Laurie and Jack who met one random day in December, while Laurie's seated in a bus and Jack's waiting on a bus stop. The only interaction here was one intense gaze that passed between the two of them. Laurie tried to searched for her bus boy for a whole year, with full support from her best friend, Sarah. But due to some twist of fate, she met him again one year later, as Sarah's boyfriend.
This book takes us through a decade of missed chances between the two. It was presented as love at first sight and honestly, that usually doesn't work for me so I am in awe of why this book got to me. I expected a light and cozy romance but surprise! I picked a book that put my heart through a lot of pain.
I WOULD GENUINELY UNDERSTAND THOUGH WHY SOME PEOPLE WOULD FIND THIS NOT VERY FITTING FOR THEIR TASTE.
HONEST OPINION. I know Jack can be a total Jackass and it's easy to say that he doesn't really deserve Laurie. She's too kind, too warm, too beautiful for him. But as I see everything unfolds, and as he finally finds his footing and realizes that he needs to change and be better, the only thing left really is for him to finally allow himself to love the woman he's been truly in love with for so many years.
AND I AM IN NO WAY JUSTIFYING CHEATING OF ANY FORM. There's one circumstance here that I personally consider as cheating and I HATED IT. Almost didn't continue, but they lived and suffered for that mistake.
I loved this book not just for Laurie and Jack's story actually. Just everything that happened really hit the right spot.
I loved the friendship between Laurie and Sarah. That's undeniably a once in a lifetime friendship. I love the characters' family dynamics. It really added colors to the entire novel. I love the pacing. I love how we see them grow up through the years. I love how the characters started from clueless, dreamy young adults to mature and experienced people who have went through a lot of individual challenges and learned from them. Seeing how things happen and things change through time was really impactful for me, personally.
(I even loved the other relationships in this story honestly. Rooted for those, too.)
THE WRITING WAS REALLY GOOD. This is the first time I heard about this author and this won't be the last time I would be devouring her novels. Her words just hit me right straight to the heart.
I wished we could've seen more of what comes after that last scene though. Maybe a final chapter jumping through the years showing that everything worked out fine for the two of them. I really needed for them to finally find peace and happiness after all those years.