This is a love story by Jessica Thompson

Welcome back to the forgotten shelf. This is day 19!
Watch the video for today, here or here.

The Book in short
This is a love story.
Boy meets girl and girl falls for boy – that much is true.
But when Sienna meets Nick it’s not the way it happens in love stories. It’s because of a squirrel on water skis…
She sees Nick’s dangerous brown eyes and thinks,

Don’t.
Fall.
Into.
Them.

Who will be there to catch Siena when she falls? She is so fragile. She has so many secrets, and he is not that serious.

Funny and sad, this is the story of two people destined never to come together in the great love affair they crave more than anything else.

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My Thoughts
Honestly, as I said in the very first post about this, I didn’t read all the books one after another, but I nearly did. There was a whole bit there where I did not read anything else, and if I did, it was for the Goodreads challenges because I had already gotten all of them throughout the year, and I wanted to have them all (honestly, I don’t ever want to do that again).

At some point, even perfectly good books can become a bit tiring. Also, sometimes books need to marinate in the brain for a bit, and jumping from one to the other does not always work (especially if the one you read before wasn’t that great). That was not necessarily the case here, but I read the past two books almost simultaneously.

Having said that, I did give every book a good go, but I do want to say that pausing a book can be a good thing to do. If you really have to make yourself read, you might put yourself in a reading slump, and honestly, that is just not worth it.

But as I said in the video, this book was very frustrating. It was one of those books I really had to tell myself to read, instead of letting it pull me in. Once I was reading, I did finish it fairly quickly, but it was so frustrating. I know some people really like that push and pull, will they, won’t they, but due to the dual POV, I felt it did not work as well. It felt like being a friend of two people who like each other immensely but aren’t brave enough to do something about it. Now, I am not terribly brave either; that might have been the issue all along. As I said, overall it was nice, but this storyline was not my favourite.

That was the forgotten shelf for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.