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Love, Holly
by Emily Stone
Thank you to Penguin Random House and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of Love, Holly to review!
One Christmas Eve, Holly gets into a car accident that will tear her family apart for years to come. Feeling lonely, she decides to join a lonely-hearts holiday letter writing club. Even though the letters are anonymous, one Christmas Eve she decides to track down the woman who wrote a letter that she received because she feels connected to her situation. The woman that Holly tracked down, Emma, was also in a car accident that caused her to lose her son and lose her connection with her grandson as well. Now with a cancer diagnosis, Emma is feeling more alone than ever. While getting to know Emma, Holly finds out that she had met Emma's grandson (Jack) the night of her car accident. Determined to resolve their family situation instead of her own Holly decides to reunite these two people and in the process, help heal her own grief as well.
I had mixed feelings about this book. I didn't dislike it but I felt very misguided from what I originally thought this book was going to be about. I thought this was going to be a fun little Christmas themed romance book and in some ways it was but in a lot of ways it was not. This book was a lot more about grief than I was initially expecting and in a lot of ways I think the grief part of the story took precedence over the love story part of the book. I also thought it was kind of comedic how a significant part of the story didn't actually take place during Christmastime? Additionally, I never totally understood Holly and Emma's relationship but I understood the purpose. I also never really felt the chemistry between Holly and Jack but you gotta love a good dramatic hospital scene though. (It gave me major Fangirl vibes because that book has like three different dramatic hospital scenes in it). In the end, I didn't really dislike the book but it was definitely not what I was expecting to get into and that kind of disappointed me.
One Christmas Eve, Holly gets into a car accident that will tear her family apart for years to come. Feeling lonely, she decides to join a lonely-hearts holiday letter writing club. Even though the letters are anonymous, one Christmas Eve she decides to track down the woman who wrote a letter that she received because she feels connected to her situation. The woman that Holly tracked down, Emma, was also in a car accident that caused her to lose her son and lose her connection with her grandson as well. Now with a cancer diagnosis, Emma is feeling more alone than ever. While getting to know Emma, Holly finds out that she had met Emma's grandson (Jack) the night of her car accident. Determined to resolve their family situation instead of her own Holly decides to reunite these two people and in the process, help heal her own grief as well.
I had mixed feelings about this book. I didn't dislike it but I felt very misguided from what I originally thought this book was going to be about. I thought this was going to be a fun little Christmas themed romance book and in some ways it was but in a lot of ways it was not. This book was a lot more about grief than I was initially expecting and in a lot of ways I think the grief part of the story took precedence over the love story part of the book. I also thought it was kind of comedic how a significant part of the story didn't actually take place during Christmastime? Additionally, I never totally understood Holly and Emma's relationship but I understood the purpose. I also never really felt the chemistry between Holly and Jack but you gotta love a good dramatic hospital scene though. (It gave me major Fangirl vibes because that book has like three different dramatic hospital scenes in it). In the end, I didn't really dislike the book but it was definitely not what I was expecting to get into and that kind of disappointed me.