Taylor Jenkins Reid

Initial reaction: whaaaaat

I didn't cry in the parts that I thought I would, but I cried.

Good, good book.




Now on a serious note:
So what this book is about is love and all the different kinds of love. Platonic love, romantic love, sexual love, abusive love (if you can call it that), motherly and fatherly love. Also it is about all kinds of relationships that are not related to love, but to respect or transactional relationships or relationships between boss and employee and how much power either can have over the other. So much good stuff in this book. So many themes. And that's not even the whole plot of the book. But for this reason alone, I really like it.

You, yeah you, should totally read it. But no pressure.… (altro)

What I loved best about this book was all the real human emotion. Ben and Elsie have just married when he is killed suddenly - and then Elsie is dealing with a mother-in-law who doesn't even know about her. Discovering that Susan (Ben's mother) also lost her husband to cancer and is grieving herself just added to the sense of tragedy. Watching both women come to terms with their grief - and the fact that after the initial hostility, Susan becomes something of a mentor in the journey of grief - all that was heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time.… (altro)