Sooooo, it was time to try again. I do have the follow-up book, The Girl You Left Behind but prefer not to read it. I chose One Plus One instead. Hoover is one of the freshest voices in new-adult fiction, and her latest resonates with true emotion, unforgettable characters and just the right amount of sexual tension.

The characters were done really well and the narrative style (in the third person omniscient) is very impressive. It’s every character’s perspective without actually having to read a particular character whine about his woes or brag about his accomplishments. Things were presented truthfully without sugarcoating stuff that are sad but without being mean at the same time. Gah! I just love the author’s writing style! It’s charming, funny, painful, sad but really hopeful too and worry not because nobody dies. Whoopee! She wrote Jess as one amazingly strong and fierce woman, that would do anything and did anything for her children. And Ed, gosh, he was so geeky and nerdy, and kind, and wonderful, and, and, and....... With two jobs and two children, Jess Thomas does her best day after day. But it's hard on your own. And sometimes you take risks you shouldn't. Because you have to...

More books

Moyes' books have been translated into forty-six languages, have hit the number one spot in twelve countries and have sold over forty million [6] copies worldwide. [1]

One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars

Become a Member

The one gripe I have with this novel is that I feel this formula for putting together two people who have absolutely nothing in common together, is a little overdone. Sure Moyes is a skilled writer, it's just a subject that is hard to revamp. I also struggled with the ensuing drunken mishap that later took place between the two main characters (Jess and Ed). It just seems to me that if a drunk woman were to do the things that she did to and around a man whom she had only really gotten to know in the span of a couple of days, any man would have bolted straight out of there. So, it was confusing that he calmed her when she acted insane and yet was upset by something that happened later in the book that wasn’t quite as crazy, but more desperate. It just didn’t blend very well for me during this part of the book for me. I also found Ed’s sisters reaction to their breakup to be unbelievable.

Remember the old song 'Little Boxes by Pete Seeger? It goes something like this: "Little boxes on the hillside Jojo Moyes’ new novel One Plus One adds up to a delightful summer read, where the whole is greater than the sum of its charming parts…Moyes’ observations on modern life are dryly hilarious…You don’t need to be a math whiz to figure out this book is one worth adding to your summer reading list.” —USA Today (4 stars) Paris for One and Other Stories (2015), collection of 10 short stories and 1 novella: ISBN 0735221073 "Paris for One", "Between the Tweets", "Love in the Afternoon", "A Bird in the Hand", "Crocodile Shoes", "Holdups", "Honeymoon in Paris" (novella), "Last Year's Coat", "Thirteen Days with John C", "Margot", "The Christmas List"Me Before You film adaptation awards: People's Choice Awards Winner for Favourite Dramatic Movie (2017); [38] [39] ASCAP Award Winner for Top Box Office Films (2017); [38] Golden Trailer Award Winner for Best Romance (2017) [38] Todo está relatado por un narrador omnisciente, en capítulos cortos enfocados a cada uno de los personajes. Así la narración pasa de un personaje a otro y en cada capítulo nos enteramos de los pensamientos e intimidades de un personaje en específico. La escena no cambia, lo que cambia es el enfoque del narrador, y la continuidad de la historia se diversifica y no se ve afectada. Es una historia a diferentes cuadros. When Tanzie is offered the opportunity of a lifeline, Jess tries desperately to seize the chance for her to gain a scholarship to the school of her dreams but being a real person, and therefore not perfect, Jess makes a few bad decisions and what follows is a comic tragedy of grand proportions - resulting in a journey of a lifetime and the opportunity to change all their lives - but can she make the most of it or will she just make everything a whole lot worse?

Life is tough and time is precious. We carefully choose our Little Boxes in which we want to climb and escape reality, right?Of course their ends up being love in the air between Jess and Ed. They are comical and then refreshing to read. When their bump in the road come along and tears them apart you are actually devastated for them. I'm not telling how it ends... We get the inevitable “couple forced to share a bed” chapter, demanding they confront their sexual attraction for one another. She was born in 1969 and grew up in London. She had many careers including typing braille statements for blind people, writing brochures, and several others. She got her degree at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London. She worked as a journalist for 10 years as a News Reporter, Assistant News Editor, and an Arts and Media Correspondent.