Loved itOne True Loves was good.
One True Loves (2016)
Others: Mostly positive In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever. Emma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness. That is, until Jesse is found. He’s alive, and he’s been trying all these years to come home to her. With a husband and a fiancé, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants, while trying to protect the ones she loves. Who is her one true love? What does it mean to love truly? Emma knows she has to listen to her heart. She’s just not sure what it’s saying.
- ISBN:
- 9781476776903
- Length:
- 352 pages
Genres: romance
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Loved it
Not a fanI absolutely love most Jenkins Reid's books, but unfortunately, the reason that I did not like this book very much is because of the nature of the love triangle in this story.
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Loved itOne True Loves is one of my favorite. I know there's an adaptation out of it... You're just going to fly through it and you will be devoured by it.
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Loved itIt is an emotional journey, and it's also very cute, and very sweet, and very heartwarming, but also gut-wrenching, and I loved it.
Mixedthis one I think I like the least out of all these because this definitely reads much different than your typical romance but I still really enjoyed it and I think if you don't want as romance have you have a love triangle you would really enjoy this one
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Loved itI do think that the way that Taylor Jenkins readed explored these emotions kind of just Justified the whole thing for me