The Look of Love

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.