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A review by chloe_liese
If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane
5.0
“...keep a close eye on the worst things that happened to you, they could turn out to be a doorway, a route to someplace else entirely, a map you couldn’t yet read.”
This book spoke to a part of me that’s still raw and searching for a sense of “now what?” But what I loved about this story was that it managed to be a romantic story that affirms love and romance as a worthy reward for having survived betrayal and heartache without portraying romantic bliss as the *only* worthwhile conclusion to pain.
Laurie and Jamie don’t collapse into each other—they make each other stronger. And though they get their love story and their happy ending, their greater capacity to know and love themselves, the love they find themselves surrounded by in true friends and loyal family, is the real love story told.
This book was brilliantly witty, funny, and dear. Every character was well developed, the writing leapt off the page, and the story never once flagged in pace for me. A truly perfect smart, non-steam, romantic love story.
This book spoke to a part of me that’s still raw and searching for a sense of “now what?” But what I loved about this story was that it managed to be a romantic story that affirms love and romance as a worthy reward for having survived betrayal and heartache without portraying romantic bliss as the *only* worthwhile conclusion to pain.
Laurie and Jamie don’t collapse into each other—they make each other stronger. And though they get their love story and their happy ending, their greater capacity to know and love themselves, the love they find themselves surrounded by in true friends and loyal family, is the real love story told.
This book was brilliantly witty, funny, and dear. Every character was well developed, the writing leapt off the page, and the story never once flagged in pace for me. A truly perfect smart, non-steam, romantic love story.