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A review by jaimereadsromance
This Love Story Will Self-Destruct by Leslie Cohen
4.0
4.5 Stars
Have you ever read a book and been left wondering how it felt like absolutely nothing happened but somehow SO much happened at the same time? This is that book for me.
It read sort of like a diary where you’ll learn everything about Ben and Eve’s lives and how they missed each other for so long but crossed paths so often. You’ll learn of Eve’s struggle with the death of her mom and her absent father and her inability to trust in anything good.
It’s mentioned early on that Ben’s friends think that he is boring and for a majority of the book I didn’t see it. I just saw him as steady, calm and level-headed. Then as we watch as Eve’s emotions start to get the best of her, Ben does seem to come across as unfazed, emotionless and yes, boring. When things blow up and Eve becomes her own worst enemy, I saw that Ben does have emotions, but he doesn’t express them outwardly.
He is the calm to Eve’s storm.
Even in the end when you’d expect a certain excited reaction to something Eve casually acknowledges he is steady and calm. At first I was disappointed because who doesn’t want a big show of emotion, but that’s when I hit me. His reaction was more real than anything I’ve become accustomed to in Fiction, but exactly what I witness first hand in real life. Proving that true love and romance isn’t always show-boating and loud, sometimes calm and steady is the best reaction of them all.
*I received an ARC from NetGalley for voluntary review
Have you ever read a book and been left wondering how it felt like absolutely nothing happened but somehow SO much happened at the same time? This is that book for me.
It read sort of like a diary where you’ll learn everything about Ben and Eve’s lives and how they missed each other for so long but crossed paths so often. You’ll learn of Eve’s struggle with the death of her mom and her absent father and her inability to trust in anything good.
It’s mentioned early on that Ben’s friends think that he is boring and for a majority of the book I didn’t see it. I just saw him as steady, calm and level-headed. Then as we watch as Eve’s emotions start to get the best of her, Ben does seem to come across as unfazed, emotionless and yes, boring. When things blow up and Eve becomes her own worst enemy, I saw that Ben does have emotions, but he doesn’t express them outwardly.
He is the calm to Eve’s storm.
Even in the end when you’d expect a certain excited reaction to something Eve casually acknowledges he is steady and calm. At first I was disappointed because who doesn’t want a big show of emotion, but that’s when I hit me. His reaction was more real than anything I’ve become accustomed to in Fiction, but exactly what I witness first hand in real life. Proving that true love and romance isn’t always show-boating and loud, sometimes calm and steady is the best reaction of them all.
*I received an ARC from NetGalley for voluntary review