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A review by jfbfsf
Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson
4.0
I want to give this 3.5 stars, but I'm going to bump it up to four because I liked it better than all of the other books I've read by this author.
All of her books are (mostly) set in the south, and feature some extreme characters and situations. As another reviewer aptly put it, reading her books you'd think everyone in the south is a "whackadoodle." That's a little offputting to me. I've never been to the south, so I'm certainly no judge of the accuracy her portrayals, but the characters and the situations can come across as so far fetched that the story loses credibility.
This book has touches of the same weirdness, but in a more palatable way, and the emphasis is not on their extreme wild southern-ness/weirdness.
The stories were compelling, and I was drawn in. There's a reveal/twist at the end that I didn't care for - it served to distance me from the characters involved and the story. It didn't seem plausible that I had come this far with them without knowing some very basic, important facts.
And another primary story/relationship wrapped up a little too neatly/conveniently.
But those were small disappointments towards the end of what was otherwise a touching, compelling story.
All of her books are (mostly) set in the south, and feature some extreme characters and situations. As another reviewer aptly put it, reading her books you'd think everyone in the south is a "whackadoodle." That's a little offputting to me. I've never been to the south, so I'm certainly no judge of the accuracy her portrayals, but the characters and the situations can come across as so far fetched that the story loses credibility.
This book has touches of the same weirdness, but in a more palatable way, and the emphasis is not on their extreme wild southern-ness/weirdness.
The stories were compelling, and I was drawn in. There's a reveal/twist at the end that I didn't care for - it served to distance me from the characters involved and the story. It didn't seem plausible that I had come this far with them without knowing some very basic, important facts.
And another primary story/relationship wrapped up a little too neatly/conveniently.
But those were small disappointments towards the end of what was otherwise a touching, compelling story.