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A review by kellbraun
Love, Holly by Emily Stone
4.0
Thank you to Random House Publishing Group—Ballantine and Netgalley for an ARC of this book! I’ve willingly read and reviewed it. All opinions are my own.
LOVE, HOLLY is the third book I’ve read by Emily Stone. Much like her previous two novels, LOVE, HOLLY deals with grief and how that grief affects those who are left behind to deal with it. Yet, LOVE, HOLLY is unique in that there are so many moving parts and intricacies.
Following a tragic accident that has left her alone at Christmas, Holly Griffin partakes in a “Dear Stranger” pen-pal type program with other people lonely during the holiday season. The letter she receives, however, is littered with details of a place she’d been before—a café she visited just before the accident that changed her life years before.
What follows is a moving story of grief, of course, but also growth, forgiveness, and love.
I’ve always loved the concept of serendipity—these moments that can be brushed off as coincidence or embraced as fate, and Emily Stone plays with that idea beautifully in LOVE, HOLLY, having these characters experience similar circumstances that allow them to sympathize and empathize, and unbelievable moments of connection which prove just how funny life can be.
LOVE, HOLLY is the perfect palate cleanser from those holiday romantic comedies readers will certainly be gobbling up around the holidays.
LOVE, HOLLY is the third book I’ve read by Emily Stone. Much like her previous two novels, LOVE, HOLLY deals with grief and how that grief affects those who are left behind to deal with it. Yet, LOVE, HOLLY is unique in that there are so many moving parts and intricacies.
Following a tragic accident that has left her alone at Christmas, Holly Griffin partakes in a “Dear Stranger” pen-pal type program with other people lonely during the holiday season. The letter she receives, however, is littered with details of a place she’d been before—a café she visited just before the accident that changed her life years before.
What follows is a moving story of grief, of course, but also growth, forgiveness, and love.
I’ve always loved the concept of serendipity—these moments that can be brushed off as coincidence or embraced as fate, and Emily Stone plays with that idea beautifully in LOVE, HOLLY, having these characters experience similar circumstances that allow them to sympathize and empathize, and unbelievable moments of connection which prove just how funny life can be.
LOVE, HOLLY is the perfect palate cleanser from those holiday romantic comedies readers will certainly be gobbling up around the holidays.