If you ever felt a fleeting connection to someone you’ve never met, if you think you had some sort of near-miss love, that’s the book for you.
With a fresh, witty and heart-warming writing, Laura Jane Williams makes us all fall in love with the idea of a perfect love, a love you have to fight for, a love you will lose your sleep over. One morning Nadia catches sight of a post in the daily paper which seems addressed to her and so begin their attempts at meeting, at giving this love a chance. But, as we all know, life is never what we would want it to be. We make plans, we take decisions, but at the end of the day, not everything falls into place and we end up doubting our feelings, our intuition and our destiny.
That’s what happens to Nadia and Daniel, we can see them, imagining them going on with their lives hoping in something that seems impossible, losing their hope and hurting because of missed chances and twists of fate.
I just loved reading this book, maybe because I’m a believer in love at first sight, maybe because I’m an hopeless romantic and all I want is someone like Daniel, or maybe because I lived something like this and keep its memory very close to my heart.
What I loved most and very much appreciated has been the presence of particularly important topics like feminism, fragile masculinity and consent. I feel like it is difficult to write about these topics, but the author really did a great job. She created male characters that feel confident enough to cry, to let out their emotions and respect women. And she created strong and independent women who know what they want and know how to get it, beautiful and vulnerable at times, but always ready to speak up. William’s writing feels authentic, she doesn’t embellish the experiences Nadia and her friends had on their dates, she doesn’t hide the imperfections and flaws of her characters. It could seem just like an easy and fun book to read, but it is so much more, and I hope you will all read it.
With a fresh, witty and heart-warming writing, Laura Jane Williams makes us all fall in love with the idea of a perfect love, a love you have to fight for, a love you will lose your sleep over. One morning Nadia catches sight of a post in the daily paper which seems addressed to her and so begin their attempts at meeting, at giving this love a chance. But, as we all know, life is never what we would want it to be. We make plans, we take decisions, but at the end of the day, not everything falls into place and we end up doubting our feelings, our intuition and our destiny.
That’s what happens to Nadia and Daniel, we can see them, imagining them going on with their lives hoping in something that seems impossible, losing their hope and hurting because of missed chances and twists of fate.
I just loved reading this book, maybe because I’m a believer in love at first sight, maybe because I’m an hopeless romantic and all I want is someone like Daniel, or maybe because I lived something like this and keep its memory very close to my heart.
What I loved most and very much appreciated has been the presence of particularly important topics like feminism, fragile masculinity and consent. I feel like it is difficult to write about these topics, but the author really did a great job. She created male characters that feel confident enough to cry, to let out their emotions and respect women. And she created strong and independent women who know what they want and know how to get it, beautiful and vulnerable at times, but always ready to speak up. William’s writing feels authentic, she doesn’t embellish the experiences Nadia and her friends had on their dates, she doesn’t hide the imperfections and flaws of her characters. It could seem just like an easy and fun book to read, but it is so much more, and I hope you will all read it.