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Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
by Daniel Jones, Andrew Rannells, Veronica Chambers, Ayelet Waldman, Amy Krouse Rosenthal
I knew after watching the first season of the Amazon Prime series “Modern Love” that they would be filming a second season, so I dove into this non-fiction story collection with the mindset of predicting which stories would be turned into episodes for Season 2. This was fun for the first half of the book, but soon became somewhat exhausting as the stories started to blur together in my mind.
To be completely honest, there were some stories in this collection that were extremely forgettable, while certain others left an indelible mark on me. The two stories that impacted me the most both revolve around children, not romantic love. I wonder if other people felt the same way!
Two stories in this collection feature incredibly cruel main characters— one of the stories was so upsetting and preposterous that I seriously wonder why the editor chose to include it in this collection. The other story was just so devastatingly heartless that it left me feeling very numb.
All in all, this book definitely covers a wide range of love related topics, but there is a heavy helping of difficult topics. Trigger warning: a lot of death. A lot of illness.
For my personal taste I would have appreciated a bit more variety in terms of tone— I found myself more often than not extremely saddened at the end of a story rather than hopeful. I feel like a book such as this one could benefit from a bit more optimism and positivity, rather than SO much sadness and darkness.
To be completely honest, there were some stories in this collection that were extremely forgettable, while certain others left an indelible mark on me. The two stories that impacted me the most both revolve around children, not romantic love. I wonder if other people felt the same way!
Two stories in this collection feature incredibly cruel main characters— one of the stories was so upsetting and preposterous that I seriously wonder why the editor chose to include it in this collection. The other story was just so devastatingly heartless that it left me feeling very numb.
All in all, this book definitely covers a wide range of love related topics, but there is a heavy helping of difficult topics. Trigger warning: a lot of death. A lot of illness.
For my personal taste I would have appreciated a bit more variety in terms of tone— I found myself more often than not extremely saddened at the end of a story rather than hopeful. I feel like a book such as this one could benefit from a bit more optimism and positivity, rather than SO much sadness and darkness.