Cuando Lucy conoce a Nate en Venecia, sabe al instante que él es su verdadero amor. Cuando se besan al atardecer en una góndola bajo el Puente de los Suspiros, parecen sellar el romance para siempre. Pero, la vuelta a sus países de origen y la distancia hacen que todo se enfríe y Nathaniel, desde Norteamérica, deje a Lucy por teléfono anunciándole que se va a casar con otra.
Diez años más tarde, Lucy se muda a Nueva York y capta que no ha podido quitarse a Nate de la cabeza. Aún perdura en ella el influjo veneciano. ¿Cómo conseguirá deshacerse de él? Porque para siempre es muchísimo tiempo...

I just could not get into this book. I really liked the premise but it moved so incredibly slow that I just can't keep trying to trudge through. Oh well.

This was a fun read, I love it when a book can make me laugh AND tell a great story. It's always a treat to find a twisted love story and Alexandra provides plenty of twists. Read it...you will enjoy it...I promise.


I won this book through a goodreads giveaway and I'm very glad that I did. ( )

When I was in high school, I just ate up chick lit. I read pretty much any chick lit novel I could get my hands on, and loved most of them. I envied the romance, the sex, the adventures, and liked to pretend I would get to experience such things some day. As I got older, though, I found that I no longer had a taste for such unrealistic plot lines, which just help to feed high expectations and disappointment with the real world.

You're (Not) the One is about as unrealistic as they come, but in the very best way possible. This definitely falls into the category of chick lit novels that rock, even to my older, more critical eye. For one thing, the whole story is delightfully tongue in cheek. Everything is over the top and poking fun at itself. Plus, the whole theme is that sometimes you do get it wrong. Love at first sight does happen here, but it turns out to be a different kind of love, not the good kind. It also doesn't hurt that Lucy is British. I just love the lingo.

This novel definitely has a bit of a Sarah Addison Allen type feel to it, as it has some very light, subtle, adorable magical realism woven throughout. I loved the way the Legend of the Bridge of Sighs functioned in the story and how it all played out. The legend chases Nate and Lucy in incredibly hilarious ways, like jukeboxes and facebook. Really the only thing/person I did not like was Nate, which is okay, because the title tells you right from the beginning that he's not going to work out.

Chick lit is not for everyone, but if you're willing to give it a go, this is definitely an excellent one. Recommended to fans of reading about real life, only with a dash of magic thrown in.
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This was such a cliched rom-com. I wanted to finish it before I returned it to the library. Lucy, the proagonist, fulfills all the cliches of this genre and manages to be flat and immature in the process. If you're looking for a contemporary romance to read, there are better ones out there. ( )