The Look of Love
Ratings4
Average rating2.8
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Ratings4
Average rating2.8
Inspired by the classic song, this magical story from the New York Times bestselling author of Always and Blackberry Winter tells the tale of a woman with the unusual gift to see true love—but will she be able to find it for herself before it’s too late? Born during a Christmas blizzard, Jane Williams receives a rare gift: the ability to see true love. In spite of her unique talent, Jane has emerged from an ailing childhood a lonely, hopeless romantic without love on her life. On her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious greeting card arrives. The card specifies that Jane must identify the six types of love before the full moon following her thirtieth birthday—or face grave consequences. But when Jane at last falls for a science writer who doesn’t believe in love, she fears that she may never accomplish her task—and that her loveless fate may be sealed... “Jio has become one of the most-read women in America.”—Woman’s World
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Worst book I have ever read. Most despicable characters ever. Cannot even continue...I'm speechless.I just simply do not view the world as these characters do at all, so I think they're horrible, delusional,and selfish people.
My point basically is that the “love” that is explored in this book isn't the love that I believe exists in this world. So, not a book about love to me, it read like a book about people who used “true love” as an excuse for their very bad behavior.
I absolutely loved Sarah Jio's last book, Goodnight June. But unfortunately, The Look of Love just didn't work for me. I thought the idea of actually seeing true love sounded really interesting as a magical realism aspect, and at first it was. But the side plot of this gift possibly being caused by a scientific anomaly instead of by magic really distracted from the rest of the story.
The other parts of the story: all of Jane's friends, their love lives, and Jane using her gift to help them navigate through their relationships were all well done, and if the story had been left there, I would have really enjoyed it.
However, the whole identifying the 6 types of love kind of got lost in the story. It is set up at the beginning of the book as being the whole point of the story - Jane has to identify and record all the types of love before her 30th birthday or lose the ability to ever find true love for herself. And technically, as you are reading, you can tell that she has found all the types of love, but it is never wrapped up at the end. I mean Jane's love story is wrapped up, but she never actually talks about finding the 6 types of love and what they all meant to her.
I just found this story way too surface level and did not enjoy it nearly as much as I thought I would.
