I will truly miss Tess and Gus, after being "with them" from when they were. 18 till their mid thirties. A slow burner, this novel slowly introduced you to the lives of this guy and girl, who both but separately go through loss, love, adulthood and keep missing each other for a heartbeat.
They are both very human, with qualities and negatives points of their characters. But they both become so familiar page after page, year after year.
And I loved the settings, London especially, it is a novel that clearly states its love for the city and that makes you want hop on a train and go discover it.
Even if the title shouts romantic book, in reality it's not, it's a novel about life and choices and just things that happen and how you deal with them.
A really good read, engaging and sap and happy and very down to earth.
Overall rating: 8 Plot: 8 Writing style: 7 Cover: 7,5
A really good read, engaging and sap and happy and very down to earth.
Overall rating: 8 Plot: 8 Writing style: 7 Cover: 7,5
The plot
Today is the first day of the rest of your life is the motto on a plate in the kitchen at home, and Tess can't get it out of her head, even though she's in Florence for a final, idyllic holiday before university. Her life is about to change forever - but not in the way she expects.Gus and his parents are also on holiday in Florence. Their lives have already changed suddenly and dramatically. Gus tries to be a dutiful son, but longs to escape and discover what sort of person he is going to be.For one day, the paths of an eighteen-year-old girl and boy criss-cross before they each return to England.Over the course of the next sixteen years, life and love will offer them very different challenges. Separated by distance and fate, there's no way the two of them are ever going to meet each other properly . . . or is there?
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