One True Loves
Ratings205
Average rating3.8
I've gushed abt how much I enjoy this author before. This book was no different. Riveting. But clearly a first novel, compared to something like Malibu Rising, Evelyn Hugo, or Daisy Jones.
Taylor Jenkins Reid does it again. I fell in love with all the characters and felt for out FMC when she was faced with them impossible. Without spoilers though, let's just say she made the right choice. 5 ⭐️
Spectacular. This book flew by and honestly I wished I could live in this world a little longer. The whole premise of having a husband disappear, find new love, and have your husband come back was so thought provoking. I loved Emma so much, I connected with her on such a deep level of finding herself and growing up. Each of the two loves was also very real. Taylor Jenkins Reid does characters like no other author. Everyone in this book felt REAL and just made me feel so cozy. Jessie and Emma's farewell was bittersweet but needed. They both needed to grow up and realize the true love they had was still real, even though it didn't last forever. Sam was perfect and I love him in every way. Emma's growth was so genuine, how she had dreams, pursued them, and then felt at place home with her family and her bookstore (and how she loved reading at the end!) The lines that Jesse and Emma say to each other at the end, “I am who I am because I loved you once” was so perfect and representative of the novel. TJR does it again, flawless.
I'm writing this in December, I read it in September. I remember the story vaguely but it wasn't memorable and the details have left my brain, so I guess it wasn't that great. As far as I do remember, it was pretty predictable. Also, DO NOT watch the movie, it is garbage.
I think it's a sign you've read too many sad books to think every one is going to end in tragedy. All I can say is I'm glad nobody died at the end.
oh i love sam so fucking much
bumping this to 5 stars bc i can't stop thinking abt this book (esp when listening to taylor) and getting sad. it's not a perfect book but it did something to me and dats enough
3.75 but i'm iffy about the book rn and i might lower to a 3.5 idk
Great story telling but very very very repetitive, it got too much at some points.
The main character was really annoying at times and yes her haircut did suck
4⭐
“I think that perhaps everyone has a moment that splits their life in two. When you look back on your own time line there's a sharp spike somewhere along the way, some event that changed you, changed your life more than the others. A moment that creates a before and an after.”
“When you love someone, it seeps out of everything you do, it bleeds into everything you say, it becomes so ever-present, that eventually it becomes ordinary to hear, no matter how extraordinary it is to feel.”
“I don't think that true love means your only love. I think true love means loving truly. Loving purely. Loving wholly.”
“Hollow and empty are terrible ways to feel when you're used to being full of joy. But it's not so bad when you're used to feeling full of pain. Hollow feels okay. Empty feels like a beginning. Which is nice, because for so long you have felt like you were at the end.”
3.5! super fast, engaging read, but nothing special. reads kinda like a colleen hoover book? the newer tjr books are definitely better.
Solid 3.5 stars. I was cheering for one of them all the time, and wasn't disappointed. Also, despite the dichotomy, it was believable, somehow. And very sweet.
I have not read a book by her that I did not like. She once again tied them together I love that. I really disliked the first husband he was no good for her. I am glad the book ended the way it did. This was a good book.
3.75/5
I would've given it a 4 if she didn't do what she did at the end in the cabin...
I really enjoyed this one but I still felt like I needed more from this book. I kinda felt like I didn't get at attached as I usually do to the main characters so the outcome didn't affect me as much as I expected. Plus, I found the ending a bit predictable.
Gave this one a read because I saw it had a movie trailer and I quite like the way TJR writes her characters. But is this one of her older books or something because this is NOT IT. The plot centres around the main character realising her dead husband is alive 3 years later, and her having sex with him while keeping her current fiancé on the back burner. And then he's like totally cool with it, she gets back with the fiancé and has a happy ending?? This could have worked if she didn't get either guy in the end, I think I just hated how she basically cheated on her fiancé but there was absolutely no remorse or consequences for it.
Originally posted at www.emgoto.com.
I've only seen the trailer for the movie and I already know it sucks butt compared to the actual book
DNF at 50%. Couldn't bring myself to care whether the FMC would end up with her husband, who was presumed dead for several years, or her new fiancé. Doris Day and James Garner did it better in the movie Move Over, Darling (1963).
Ha estado entretenido, no es el mejor libro que he leído pero tampoco es el peor. La verdad que si tenía bastantes expectativas porque los 7 maridos de Evelyn Hugo me encantó. Pero es mi culpa por crearme expectativas tan altas.
Its one of those books that you need to make sure you have enough time to finish it in a go. One of those books, that hides nothing of true, real emotions and feelings. It doesn't make you feel that this couldn't be real, is far fetched, but it could... And Sam is sooo unreal, but there are men like him out there.
I am starting to fall in love with TJR books, not because of her speech, or her choose of words, but because she can give you full raw emotions, both good and ugly. Yes, I cant give this book a 5, but it's really good, really fast pasted, and keeps you hooked to that storyline.
And please, save yourself from the spoilers. It doesn't really matter who she chooses at the end, nothing will make her choice 100% OK, not matter what it is. For me it was what I hoped for, but after I reflected on her other choice, I felt the sorrow, the unfairness of all...