“All I know is that my parents have always made love seem easy and sometimes I wish they prepared me for how truly complicated it can be.”
Genre: Romance
Actual Rating: 4.5 stars
Content Warnings: Mentions injury descriptions, death, and suicidal thoughts.
“One True Loves” follows Emma Blair’s story in a somewhat chronological order. Emma falls in love with and marries Jesse, her high school sweetheart. On the day of their first wedding anniversary, he is lost at sea and presumed dead after a helicopter crash. Emma then moves back to her hometown and after some time falls in love again and gets engaged to Sam, a high school friend—only for Jesse to be found, alive, after surviving years on a deserted island. Now with a husband and a fiancé, Emma is left to find within herself where her love lies.
This book perfectly describes how it’s possible to love two people at the same time in completely different ways. I empathized with Emma, felt for Jesse, and just absolutely loved Sam. I felt like this was a slow-paced book only because I’ve gotten so used to books with alternating timelines. In “One True Loves”, we get to see a glimpse of the future before jumping on a normal timeline, but after learning that Jesse was alive and getting to know him in the first few chapters of the normal timeline, I couldn’t help but want to see another glimpse into the future and then another and another.
I would say this was a very sad book even though it had a somewhat happy ending. I wouldn’t have had it any other way but at the same time, I wish the characters hadn’t had to go through that. That’s how lovable they were, you really did not want to see any harm done to them.
I don’t know why but this book reminded me of Colleen Hoover novels. this wasn’t that big of a tragedy but if you enjoy CoHo books then I would definitely recommend “One True Loves”.
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