A review by cayv97
The One That Got Away by Charlotte Rixon

3.75

Clara and Benjamin meet during their first year of college. It’s instant sparks, the kind of love you will never forget. Unfortunately, this is not a love story. This is rather a story about love and how it makes and breaks you. You travel through 22 years of Clara and Benjamin’s relationship: passionate young love, a traumatic event that separates them, their individual lives, and all the broken hearts between. When an explosion happens in the city they fell in love in, Clara is convinced that she must go and find him. 
💭Thoughts💭
I really did love this book, it was written so well and definitely kept my interest. I just wanted to shake both of these characters though! They were clearly very young which was part of their issue, but they just seemed not right for each other at all. Benjamin also seemed like such a dud- he could not get out of his own way.  
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⌛️Favorite Moment⌛️
My favorite moments were any with Benjamin, his son, and his dad. They all got along so well and it was so sweet to imagine these three generations together. 
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🎉 Theme Ideas 🎉
English football ( soccer ⚽️) played a huge role in this book. Watch a game with a pint of beer and some chips- whether they’re American potato chips or UK French fries!
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