A review by _beccareads
One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

TJR does it again! Taylor never fails to make me desperately fall in love whilst simultaneously ripping my heart out and crushing it.

This book is a beautiful heartbreaking story about what true love really means.

Emma Blair our protagonist marries her high school sweetheart Jesse, and just 1 short year after their wedding day, he’s in a horrific helicopter accident and is presumed dead.

Three years later Emma dares to love again, and is engaged to Sam, another childhood sweetheart. As her life feels like everything is finally falling into place, she gets the call that Jesse is still alive and he’s coming home. Her life is quickly thrown into turmoil as she has to decide who her true love is, is it Jesse or is it Sam?

I could not put this book down. I was immersed in Emma’s story as she navigated this impossible, brutal decision and it left me constantly wondering what I would do if I was her. The complexity of guilt, grief and love all crashing together at once made for an incredible journey.

I think what I loved most about this book is its perfect depiction of how complex love really is, especially the novel concept of a “true love”. 

Each time we fall in love, we fall in love differently and how naive could we be to possibly believe that we could only have one true love.

“Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be.” 💗