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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Get ready to be swept up in a whirlwind romance. It absolutely charmed me.”—Reese Witherspoon (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick) “The perfect book to get lost in . . . Josie Silver’s characters sneak their way into your heart and stay.”—Jill Santopolo, author of The Light We Lost Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away. Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be. What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.
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It is one of the books where you know exactly what the ending will be, right from the beginning. But I would not call it a shallow romance either. The story line is simple and straight forward. But the author takes time to describe the situations and feelings that a lot of us have experienced in our 20s - such as balancing your new career and relationship, choosing between 'settling ' for a current relationship or moving on, in hope of the perfect one. I felt pretty nostalgic while reading it. I would actually recommend it for teens or people in their early 20s. Maybe someone will feel better knowing that others go through the same struggles too.
This was a fun read. The production of the audiobook is pretty good. I definitely got wrapped up in this book although let's be honest, Jack has very few redeeming qualities apart from his dramatic romantic speeches. Still, I was glad to finally see them together at the end.
I love enjoyable romance books, I really do. Emphasis on enjoyable. Sadly for me this book didn't quite do it. There were cute parts, sure, but overall the pacing and plot just did not keep my attention. I can't point to anything in particular, so maybe someone would disagree with me (books are subjective, after all), but I just found this one to be quite boring.
I'm not usually one for love stories, but I enjoyed the humor in this one! I enjoyed the ride through the story but the end felt incredibly rushed.