Unrequited love

The second of my naughty purchases of this month was one that I have had my eye on for a long time!

You’re the one that I want – Giovanna Fletcher

I have heard nothing but praise for this author and having heard that it’s all about love and soppiness, I couldn’t help but choose this as my next book of choice. Revision has properly taken hold of my life at the moment therefore I have had to reserve reading time as my unwind time just before I sleep in the evenings, therefore I get about an hour or so per evening to read. That makes me a little sad as I have loved throwing myself into reading this year to the point where if I’ve made a significant dent in the book, the majority of my thoughts are trying to decipher where this adventure will take me…and yes reading is an adventure! It’s as though you create a world in your head and you grow to love and befriend the characters and it’s certainly safe to say that I befriended the characters in this book.

I would like to note here that next to ‘Evermore’ By Alison Noel and ‘Eleanor and Park’ which I read earlier on this year, this is in my top 3 books. (Don’t worry; I shall be revisiting my favourite book  ‘Evermore’ at some point this year as it can’t not hold a special spot in my blog.)

‘You’re the one that I want’ is a tale of unrequited love between a trio of best friends ‘the tripod’ as they call themselves. 2 boys and 1 girl; Ben, Maddy and Robert, you could simply say that throughout the course of this book Maddy is torn over who of her two guy best friends hold her heart. However, there is absolutely nothing simple about this story! Mrs Fletcher truly had me gripped throughout the story. As the story progresses, a series of events get thrown into the mix driving the decision of love further and further from 'easy'– another girlfriend, a cheating boyfriend, engagements, life decisions – Maddy was never given a fair opportunity to make her choice without hurting someone.

It's a question throughout as to whether fate will control the situation, or if her heart will decide which path she wishes to take. All the while she wonders what life would be like next to the other guy.

The typical falling in love and it's fire being lit in the iconic place of love; Paris... I couldn't help but let my heart pour into this story therefore I could not put this book down! 400 pages, 4 nights, complete! I am passing it onto a good friend of mine so I can have an in depth conversation about how this book moved me to tears yet left me with a warm and happy heart throughout. I will be moving swiftly onto her debut novel next as she is a fabulous author and I can’t see myself ever wandering far from her named books on the shelves in a bookshop.

‘Three squeezes’ … ‘I’ he said as he squeezes my hand, ‘love’ with another squeeze, ‘you’ he finished with the third squeeze.