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And I’ve also read stories that were heartbreaking in a way that you can’t fathom how things can possibly work out for the character(s). As they said goodbye, they promised to keep in touch and meet at the exact same place one year later. This book goes back and forth between the past and the present, describing Lili's life in the past and her progression through it to the present day. I think I was expecting something light and airy and don’t get me wrong, there were moments of this, but there were also really sad and heartbreaking moments.
This is the first book I have read by this author and I am very happy to have been introduced to her writing. Our main characters still had some growing to do but will fate ever bring back our star crossed lovers together?This book has me in a chokehold the entire time, I thought it was gonna be some kind of cutesy romance but it was so much more than that. Fate decides to play a funny hand when Ben walks into the same restaurant and finds the one that got away. I think that it was this that brought out some horrible relationships and some absolutely beautiful relationships that kept the book engaging and had me hooked.
If you've read Mad About You and The Man I Never Met, it sort of felt like a unique mashup of those two books, but with the addition of a heroine having amnesia. It’s still there now, smoking slightly and occasionally emitting a creaking sigh, like a train that has just pulled into the depot. Lucas uses duel timelines of now and in the past, wherein which the past timeline is leading up to a specific event and the aftermath that follows. Told in multiple timelines ~ it's 1st person for the meet cute 5 years ago and then the chapters that countdown until the wedding, and their current time together is in dual 3rd person.Fast forward five years, and Ben is living in Scotland, the guardian to his young niece after the death of his sister.
I was kinda worried that the book was 400 pages long and it would be one of the books that could have been shorter.
Special thank you to Sophia at HarperCollins, she always sends me the best arcs, some of them that I would not normally pick up.