3.5 Stars
I actually read this a couple of weeks ago, but then I discovered Instagram and book pictures and now I’m completely and totally obsessed just a teensy little bit into this new hobby so I had to wait for it to stop raining for 40 days and 40 nights in order to go up to the library roof and take this . . . . .
Totally worth it and not psychotically addictive behavior at all.
Before I even begin here, I feel I should tell you all about my relationship with Tracey Garvis-Graves. Noooooo, we’re not related or even friends. But she did write On the Island, a book that my non-re-reading self will re-read every single summer until I die. It’s just oh so very Blue Lagooney and it makes me feel pretty much like this . . . .
That being said, it’s a nearly impossible task for this author to write another “kitten riding a unicorn” type of book for me.
The current blurb states . . . . .
“Love doesn't come with an instruction manual.”
I say this is book is an example that . . . .
It’s a different (simply for lack of a better word – please don’t get offended) type of love story. And I really loved it . . . . until I didn’t. I’m assuming the problems I had will probably be just that – MY PROBLEMS – but they are what they are. I just do not like the device that tore Annika and Jonathan apart. I can’t remember a book where I was ever okay with it. Call it a trigger or whatever catch phrase is most fitting, but it annoys the crap out of me and my hackles remain raised for the duration once I read it. And then to top it all off there was my second most hated thing that I really should have seen coming, but I wasn’t paying attention to what the dates were and when I finally realized what was going to happen I was all like . . . .
But do you see what I mean? These were obviously my issues. For the rest of you, The Girl He Used To Know will probably make you feel like . . . .
ARC received from St. Martin’s Press in exchange for an honest review.
ORIGINAL "REVIEW:"
My reaction to being offered an ARC of this book . . . .
Totally worth it and not psychotically addictive behavior at all.
Before I even begin here, I feel I should tell you all about my relationship with Tracey Garvis-Graves. Noooooo, we’re not related or even friends. But she did write On the Island, a book that my non-re-reading self will re-read every single summer until I die. It’s just oh so very Blue Lagooney and it makes me feel pretty much like this . . . .
That being said, it’s a nearly impossible task for this author to write another “kitten riding a unicorn” type of book for me.
The current blurb states . . . . .
“Love doesn't come with an instruction manual.”
I say this is book is an example that . . . .
It’s a different (simply for lack of a better word – please don’t get offended) type of love story. And I really loved it . . . . until I didn’t. I’m assuming the problems I had will probably be just that – MY PROBLEMS – but they are what they are. I just do not like the device that tore Annika and Jonathan apart. I can’t remember a book where I was ever okay with it. Call it a trigger or whatever catch phrase is most fitting, but it annoys the crap out of me and my hackles remain raised for the duration once I read it. And then to top it all off there was my second most hated thing that I really should have seen coming, but I wasn’t paying attention to what the dates were and when I finally realized what was going to happen I was all like . . . .
But do you see what I mean? These were obviously my issues. For the rest of you, The Girl He Used To Know will probably make you feel like . . . .
ARC received from St. Martin’s Press in exchange for an honest review.
ORIGINAL "REVIEW:"
My reaction to being offered an ARC of this book . . . .
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