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    One Perfect Summer

    By Paige Toon

    3.5/5

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    DISCOVER THE PERFECT SUMMER READ FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LAST PIECE OF MY HEART.

    A Dorset summer, a chance meeting, and Joe and Alice, both 18, fall into step as if they have known each other forever. But their idyll is shattered as quickly as it began. Joe leaves without warning; Alice heads off to Cambridge University and slowly picks up the pieces of her broken heart.

    Years later, when she catches the attention of gorgeous, gifted, rich boy Lukas, Alice is carried along by his charm and swept up in his ambitious plans for a future together.

    Until news of Joe reaches her once more, but he's out of reach in a way that Alice could never have imagined. Life has moved on, the divide between them is now so great. Surely it is far too late to relive those perfect summer days of long ago?

    THE ONE WE FELL IN LOVE WITH was selected for the Zoella Book Club and Paige Toon's novels have been published across the world.

    Praise for Paige Toon's novels:
    'You'll love it, cry buckets and be uplifted' MARIAN KEYES
    'I blubbed, I laughed and I fell in love... utterly heart-wrenching' GIOVANNA FLETCHER
    'Devoured this in one sitting' COSMOPOLITAN
    'An absorbing and emotional read' HEAT
    'I loved it!' LINDSAY KELK
    'A gorgeous, warm novel' ADELE PARKS
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateMay 10, 2012
    ISBN9781849831291
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    One Perfect Summer
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    Paige Toon

    Paige Toon was born in 1975. A philosophy graduate, she worked at teen, film and women's magazines, before ending up at Heat magazine as Reviews Editor. She is very experienced at events and interviews and has a significant social media following. The One We Fell in Love With was picked for the Zoella Book Club. Her novels are bestsellers throughout the world.

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    • 2/5
      Light and fluffy romantic chick lit can be refreshing. A story about two eighteen year olds who fall in love right as their adult lives are starting should definitely be one of the feel good books that make me like this genre so much. Obviously there will be obstacles, as in every novel, indeed in every life, but the overriding feeling should be one of happiness and rightness. And normally books like this deliver without fail, which is why I reach from them. But there was something about this one that didn't quite come through for me.Alice and her family go to Dorset for the summer before she goes off to university. She fully expects to be bored silly since her best friend can't go with her as planned. But when she and her parents end up at a local pub, she meets Joe. He's good looking and brooding and the two of them fall in love. But his family situation is untenable, his parents are abusive, and his brother is terrifying and dangerous, and eventually Joe and Alice are torn apart. She mourns the loss of him until she finally moves on with her life, meeting and marrying Lukas. But Joe isn't gone; he's gotten famous. What will his reappearance mean in Alice's life?This is a tale of first love but it's not a light one by any means. The tone of the novel changes significantly from dark and terrible to hopeful. But the characters aren't driving that change so it feels artificial, an unrealistic fantasy. Joe was always Alice's first love so it's not surprising that she's conflicted when he comes back into the story. The bulk of the story is not about Alice and Joe, except as absence since Joe is present at the very beginning and then only comes back into the story rather late. Alice's relationship with Lukas is the major portion of the novel and that's not a good thing since she comes across as weak, and he's possessive and controlling even before he has to compete with the intensity of remembered first love. It was hard to sympathize with or appreciate any of the characters in the novel even though Joe is a Cinderella for whom the reader is supposed to feel sympathy. I've never rooted against first love but I probably would have here had Lukas not been unredeemable as a character. Alice and Joe move from lust to love almost immediately (they are teenagers after all) but there seems to be little growth in them for all the years and experiences they spend apart. Can it still be called love if you don't even know the person anymore? Or is it just a lust refresher? The ending of the novel is intentionally ambiguous (although it's fairly obvious what it has to be) in order to allow for a sequel and it felt rushed to boot, neither of which is ideal in a novel. Readers who don't mind infidelity and melodrama in their chick lit might like this one although it didn't really work for me.

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    • 1/5
      When I'd finished this book, I wondered why I had taken the effort to read the whole thing. The answer to that is probably because of how easy to read it actually was. I have never got through such a long book so quickly. There are a number of reasons why I asked myself this question.

      To begin with, it was very predictable. From reading the blurb on the back cover I knew how it would go. That's generally the way with this genre however, and one of the main reasons it was so easy to read.

      The main issue I had was with the characters. I didn't find a single one of them likeable. They were all shallow and irritating in their own little ways. I thought Alice was written badly. In the first section of the book she comes across as a young teenager, when she is supposed to be 18. Throughout the story she moans on and on about a guy she has become obsessed with, even though she only knew him for a few weeks. Someone really needed to yell at her to just get over it. But all her friends just pussy-footed about and put up with it.

      Joe was a very confused character, who going through a lot but for some reason refused to do anything about it ... leave? call the police? get a proper job? Grrrr.

      Lukas was an interesting character, not likeable at all, but the only one who really had a personality. He also had an obsession with his first love. Alice was being completely controlled and not one of her friends said anything to her! In the end though I felt really sorry for Lukas. Alice and Joe came across as selfish and uninteresting and I don't care what happens to them.

      So it was an oddly written book. Too much moaning and not enough action. I'll give the sequel a miss.