📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Dear Emmie Blue
AUTHOR: Lia Louis
@lialouisauthor
Publisher: Atria Books @atriabooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: July 14, 2020
I started reading this book and started struggling a lot. I liked the characters but the story wasn’t hitting me enough to stay engaged. So I started reading some reviews on Goodreads and found one that said “STAY WITH IT. YOU WON’T REGRET IT.”
And I am really glad I did. When Lucas’ brother Eliot shows up, this book really gets going. Emmie doesn’t know who she loves or how to get her life to where she wants it. It is sweet. The ending is predictable but the journey was touching and amazing. The love that exists between the characters in this book is deep and that made finishing it totally worth it. So take it from me, start this book, and if you have doubts, just press on. I guess that is good advice for life too.
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Small Summary:
At sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. Attached was her name, her email address…and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloon and immediately emailed the attached addressed, sparking an intense friendship between the two teens.
Now, fourteen years later, Emmie is hiding the fact that she’s desperately in love with Lucas. She has pinned all her hopes on him and waits patiently for him to finally admit that she’s the one for him. So dedicated to her love for Lucas, Emmie has all but neglected her life outside of this relationship—she’s given up the search for her absentee father, no longer tries to build bridges with her distant mother, and lives as a lodger to an old lady she barely knows after being laid off from her job. And when Lucas tells Emmie he has a big question to ask her, she’s convinced this is the moment he’ll reveal his feelings for her. But nothing in life ever quite goes as planned, does it?
Emmie Blue is about to learn everything she thinks she knows about life (and love) is just that: what she thinks she knows. Is there such thing as meant to be? Or is it true when they say that life is what happens when you are busy making other plans?
*****
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.