i just think with a situation so emotionally devastating as finding out your husband is back from the dead, but also being engaged to someone else, there just wasnt enough depth present to read about. I think my main issue is with the way the story is set up - the first quarter is flashbacks to emma and jesse, the second quarter is flashbacks to emma and sam, and the last half is present time with both.

This, unfortunately, isnt quite the great cathartic tearjerker that a person sometimes needs, buuuut it does have its charming moments. So i guess my destiny is that my husband will be presumed dead but later reappear?ĭear taylor jenkins reid, god of fluffy books, please pull me out of my reading slump. This book is about a girl named emma who loves books and lives in boston and dates a guy named sam. Reading this stressed me out so much and made me so sad that it made my life seem fully blissful by comparison. I like Taylor Jenkins Reid books a lot (or, okay, enjoy reading them more accurately), but I truly wonder at the evils of her dark and twisty mind. And then she falls in love with a DIFFERENT MAN, after MANY YEARS of SUFFERING. Have more time for my hobbies.īut anyway. Spontaneously evolved past the desire to date men, which is cool. My life has been much easier since this, I'll give you that. Which is actually a very freeing thought. The thing about this book is that it stressed me out so much and made me so upset that I would legitimately rather live my entire life alone, perhaps on a deserted island of some kind, either of the proverbial or literal variety, than live a single day in the protagonist's life. Who is her one true love? What does it mean to love truly?Įmma knows she has to listen to her heart. 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. He’s alive, and he’s been trying all these years to come home to her. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever.Įmma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure.

They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse.

One true lovers book