Blurb:
From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City.
To the Green-eyed Lovebird:
We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House.
You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more.
We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other.
Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding…
I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello.
After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half?
M
My Review:
I LOVED this book so so much! New favorite book in 2017! 💓
This is a beautiful emotional second chance romance.
Maybe that’s what growing up was really all about. Adults always say how complicated life gets as we age, but really, I think we just look for bigger challenges to overcome. Our biggest fears stretch from sleeping without our beloved teddy bear to finding out that we have no purpose in life. Did time, maturity, and overcoming obstacles offer the kind of contentment so evident in Orvin? Or did we just simply give up and surrender to the life we were already living?
What I loved about this book that it was written in alternate POVs. We could read not just Matt's, but Grace's thoughts too. First we could read about the past when they were only 21 years old. They met in college. Grace was a talented musician, and Matt was a talented photographer. First they were friends, best friends. Later they became a couple. I loved them together. I loved to read about their relationship, their love. But they seperated. After 15 years they met again.
We were victims of bad timing. But here we are again.
I loved the characters. I loved them when they were 21 and I loved them when they were 36.
I love college romances and I love romances which are about 30-40 years old characters. Now I got both.
Like nothing else in life, sex is perfectly selfless and selfish all at once. Hot and cold, yin and yang, black and white, and all of the shades in between.
This book is about first love, lost opportunities, missed connections, lost love, second chances.
You can’t re-create the first time you promise to love someone or the first time you feel loved by another. You cannot relive the sensation of fear, admiration, self-consciousness, passion, and desire all mixed into one because it never happens twice. You chase it like the first high for the rest of your life. It doesn’t mean you can’t love another or move on; it just means that the one spontaneous moment, the split second that you took the leap, when your heart was racing and your mind was muddled with What ifs?—that moment—will never happen the same way again. It will never feel as intense as the first time. At least, that’s the way I remember it. That’s why my mother always said we memorialize our past. Everything seems better in a memory.
This is a beautifully written heartbreaking love story. I read it in record time. I couldn't put it down. And it made me cry. 😢
We both cried together, surrendering to the reality that we had to accept. No one could change the past or give us back the time we had lost, and there were no words to make everything better. We just had to accept the present for what it was.
I recommend this book to those who love second chance romances, and love books which stay on our mind for a long time. I think this book became my favorite second chance romance! 💓
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Értékelésem:
Annyira de annyira szerettem ezt a könyvet! Új 2017-es kedvenc!
Ez a könyv egy csodálatos, érzelmekkel teli szerelmi történet.
Amit nagyon szerettem a könyvben, hogy váltott nézőpontban íródott, nm csak matt hanem Grace gondolatait is olvashattuk. Először megismerhettük a múltat, amikor még csak 21 évesek voltak. Fősulin találkoztak. Grace egy igen tehetséges zenész, csellista, Matt pedig egy tehetséges fotós volt. Barétok, sőt legjobb barátok lettek. Később pedig egy pár. Szerettem kettejükről és a kapcsolatukról olvasni. De sajnos útjaik különváltak és nem is találkoztak, csak 15 évvel később. Imádtam a karaktereket. Nemcsak a 21 éves énjüket, hanem a 36 éves énjüket is.
Szeretem a fősulis szerelmi történeteket és azokat is, amik 30-40 év körüli párokról szól. Most megkaptam mindkettőt.
Ez a könyv szól az első szerelemről, elveszett lehetőségekről, elveszett kapcsolatokról, régi szerelemről és második esélyről.
Ez egy nagyon szépen megírt, szívszorító szerelmi történet. Egyszerűen nem tudtam letenni, rekord idő alatt elolvastam. És megkönnyeztem. 😢
Ajánlom mindazoknak, akik szeretik a második esélyről szóló szerelmi történeteket, és az olyan sztorikat amik hosszú időn keresztül velünk maradnak.
Ez a könyv lett a kedvenc második esélyről szóló szerelmi történetem! 💓
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