![]() ![]() I couldn't get attached to Sawyer at all in How To Love. I have to admit I liked Trouble more but How To Love is a good book to just lazy around reading in the sunshine and it doesn't take much concentration. How To Love also reminded me of Trouble by Non Pratt, how could it not? It's a book about a teen that gets pregnant and then has a kid to look after with no support from the Dad and then he comes back and everything changes. ![]() ![]() How To Love has the same kind of design as Far From You by Tess Sharpe in the way that every chapter it changes from the present to for past or the past to the present this seems to be a really common thing with books at the moment, skipping backwards and forwards, but if it's done well it's good, and this was done well. But the parts when there was more to the story than just Reena and Sawyer I liked. By the end of the book I was still enjoying it but I was kind of fed up with Reena and Sawyer's relationship, they would fight and not speak to each other, then they would forgive each other and make out and then they would fall out again and it was all very tiresome. ![]() How To Love was really good and I really enjoyed it! But it didn't have anything unique - it was just your average love story. ![]()
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You know how it is you are *supposed* to eat and sleep now and then, but you’d much rather be reading! … A desert island keeper… Practically perfect from start to finish, The Beloved One keeps you on the edge of your seat as the plot twists and turns, and leaves you with a tear in your eye. “ The Beloved One is one of those books that I could hardly make myself put down. ![]() ![]() ![]() The trilogy exceeds a thousand pages, which might be too lengthy for some readers in which case I recommend Part 3 alone. In Kristin’s own words: “…they who have loved one another with the fieriest desire come in the end to be as two vipers biting each other’s tails.” After her husband’s demise, Kristin joins a convent.Īlthough the entire work is engrossing, it is Part 3, “The Cross”, which has always stood out for me. 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