Named a Best Book of Summer by Cosmopolitan * InStyle * Redbook * Us Weekly * PopSugar * Buzzfeed * Bustle * Brit+Co * Parade “No one does life and love better.” –InStyle “Earth-shaking…you will flip for this epic love story.” –Cosmopolitan “Reid’s heartwrenching tale asks if it’s possible to have multiple soul mates.” —Us WeeklyFrom the author of Maybe in Another Life—named a People Magazine … multiple soul mates.” —Us Weekly
From the author of Maybe in Another Life—named a People Magazine pick—comes a breathtaking new love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life.
In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure.
On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever.
Emma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness.
That is, until Jesse is found. He’s alive, and he’s been trying all these years to come home to her. With a husband and a fiancé, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants, while trying to protect the ones she loves.
Who is her one true love? What does it mean to love truly?
Emma knows she has to listen to her heart. She’s just not sure what it’s saying.
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Title: One True Loves
@tjenkinsreid
Rating: This book had me at the very first chapter! You go through the book with an inside scoop of Emma’s life. All the good and bad emotional roller coasters love brings into our lives. Aside from the romance aspect of this book it really has great life lessons that really get you thinking “am I the same person I was 4 years ago?” This book brings the reader to a lot of eye opening questions and evaluations. This is a page turner book for sure once I sat down I needed to finish it! Don’t walk run to the bookstore for this selection!! #dowtimereading #onetruelovesbuddyread #taylorjenkinsreid #bookinstagram #bookbub #ereader #amazonunlimited #kindlepaperwhite #amazonkindle #read #readingtime #readabook #readinglife #romancenovel #bookstagram #bookshelf #bookish #bookworm #bookaholic #bookobsessed #bookrecommendations #bookreview #booknerd #bookreviewer #booksofinstagram
Once I started, I couldn’t stop reading this book. I was dying to know the ending, and I wasn’t let down. On the contrary, the conclusion made me cry with its poignancy.
5+ STARS!!
This book affected me on a deeply emotional level. At 25%, I had a notion as to the final outcome, started panicking, and quit reading for the night. The next morning, I read another 25 pages and, although immensely intrigued, I felt the impending doom. Dramatic? Yes, but I can’t describe it any differently. When I picked it up that night, I read to 66% and started sobbing. I mean, big ugly sobs. Except for a few small moments of reprieve, I cried until I was finished and and then cried some more. My family was confused. “You’re still crying over that book?” I know that this will not be the experience for every reader, but I know how I wanted the story to play out and was convinced early on that it wouldn’t be the case. I have irrationally strong convictions at times and I know that had a huge influence on my emotions. I have to keep reminding myself that this was fiction and the characters aren’t real. Avid readers of this genre know how difficult that delineation can be.
After all that upset, crazily enough, I loved this exceptionally evocative book. If an author can reel me into a story with such overwhelmingly strong emotional connections, how can you not give the story 5 stars? Even if the book didn’t play out like I longed for, I can’t dismiss the quality of the writing and overall story. Don’t worry, there was a happy ever after, just not the one I really, really hoped for. At the same time, I have a deep respect for the author and the story she felt compelled to write.
In addition to gutting me emotionally, I found myself laughing often. I fell deeply in love with the characters, their relationships, and their witty banter. It’s not often that I care for a heroine in a book as much as I did Emma. I find that has often been the case with this author’s books. She writes about women I would love to be friends with and friendships between women that I could envy. One True Loves was original with strong characterizations, deep emotional pulls, and some terrific wit. Destined to be an all-time favorite.
I found myself crying out after reading this book, ‘How bloody beautiful!’ One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid was breathtakingly stunning, and very charming, to say the least. I can’t even find one man to love me, this character has two? How freaking lucky is she!
You want to know what my hook, line, and sinker was for this book?
“I am finishing up dinner with my family and my fiancé when my husband calls.”
Say what?!? Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They move away from their hometown and start to build a fantastic life for themselves. Jesse travels for work and Emma receives devastating news that his helicopter has crashed and he is missing.
Shocked and heartbroken, Emma moves back home and starts to build her new life all over again. She begins to work at her family’s bookstore, and decides to start dating again. Emma struggles with the idea that she will never be able to find love like she had with Jesse. But one day she runs into Sam, a high school friend she had a crush on back in the day.
Sam eventually proposes to Emma and she says ‘yes’. This is to a new and fresh start, a happy life with someone she has fallen in love with. One day Emma receives a call from someone she never thought she’d ever hear from again — Jesse. From confusion to anger — Emma now has both a husband and a fiancé.
If you haven’t notice by now, I’m completely obsessed with Taylor Jenkins Reid. Her writing makes my cold dark heart melt! This is the fourth book of her’s that I’ve read and I’ve consumed each one in one sitting — multiple glasses of wine in hand — vicariously having romantic relationships with each of the characters in these books. She has become my second favourite romance novelist — sorry Reid, you’ll never be better than Jane Austen!
From the character developments, the plot twists, even the dialogue with the secondary characters in each of Reid’s books, I’m not only captivated by them, I’m obsessed with them. One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid will leave you pathetically crying into your glass of red wine, while shovelling milk chocolate into your mouth…or maybe that’s just me?! This book, like Reid’s others, has convinced me there is such a thing as true love — I just have to move to California!
Read my full review here: https://bit.ly/2WE2lmb
I love days off work and lazy Saturdays when I can throw myself into a book and lose hours from my life.
This book tormented me and hurt me. It screwed with my brain and tore my heart out. I was in bits. Crying intermittently and then just staring into space because someone, maybe all of them would be hurt. How could anyone survive unscathed?
I feel like a survivor. I made it to the end and my broken little heart is beating again although it might have needed a bit of glue and stitches to make it whole again.
And how weird is it this, I listened to Piano Man last night, because Sam is the piano man. Then we play a game where the next song choice has to have a word from the title or artist. Piano Man became Man on the Moon by REM, followed by Whole of The Moon by The Waterboys, became Waterfall by TLC. And just like magic Waterfall appears in the book when I’m reading it on Saturday. It’s like me and this book are a match made in heaven.
I loved it.
My favorite thing about this book was how realistic it felt. It’s such a simple, common-place story, but the character development is so real.
People change, often times fundamentally, and some things in our lives cannot be erased or ignored — we have to deal with them. We have to be honest with ourselves about who we are and what we want. At some point, we must realize that, well, this is it now. This is who I am now. This is my life now. And it doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
That’s exactly what this book does — it tells us that change can be good, growing up is inevitable, life is going to be painful but also beautiful, and, in the end, everything will be okay.
And love, true love, is perhaps easier than we think.
I can’t write a review just yet. But I can tell you it was an amazing book. And that I cried. And: READ IT.
That’s all. Going to go mop up my metaphorical heart that’s laying on the kitchen floor.
A well written and easy to read story. I read the entire novel in one sitting. Very romantic with wonderful characters. Overall a nice, quick read if you are looking for a romance with complications.
Emma ended up with my guy but the road to get there was excruciating at times. The tension was intense and it captured beautifully how it must feel to have a loved one to come back after three years. The joy and the loss for a person that’s not the same and how yourself has changed too. I wouldn’t trade places with Emma. I enjoyed her growing friendship with her sister Marie. How Emma dealt with her grief and tried to move on was exquisitely written.
Taylor Jenkins Reid is a new to me author and I’m definitely reading more from her after finishing this wonderful book.
Loved it!
Welp. I read this book in two days. Couldn’t put it down. The authenticity of the characters and their struggles tugged at my heart. Highly recommend.
Well let me gather my thoughts really quick… I just don’t think any words can do this book justice. No matter what I write it will never represent the beauty and emotional depth of One True Loves. This book will stay in my heart forever.
The writing style of Taylor Jenkins Reid is a little bit different to what I normally read, but I am totally in love with it. Also it’s written in third person, which most people don’t like that much, but it fits this book perfectly. Also 90% of the books written in third person are extraordinary and beautiful books. And nearly every one of those I’ve read made it on my favorite list – just like this one.
Taylor just managed to make me fall in love with the Emma, Jessie and Sam and their story. The way she writes makes you feel, it makes you cry and it makes you laugh. A real masterpiece.
The story and the meaning behind it is just beautiful. My heart broke for Emma, Jessie and Sam. All three held a part of my heart in their hands on their journey. For a long time I didn’t know who I wanted Emma to end up with, but after getting to know each character a little bit, I had my “One True Love” or rather “Forever Love” for Emma. Yet I also didn’t want it to end this way because both – Jessie and Sam – were perfect for Emma. I loved both and knew it didn’t matter with who Emma ended up, it would break and mend my heart at the same time.
This book will stay with you forever. It’s about so much more than love. It’s about finding yourself, becoming the person you are meant to be and about living a happy life with the one person that loves you just as you are.
One of my all-time favorite reads!!!
A little too wordy for me. The author’s emotional descriptions seemed to go on forever. I only keep reading to find out who won her heart. I should have just skipped to the last chapter and saved a lot of time.