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Life has run away from them and they’re both far from where they’d dreamt of being all those years ago. So often, authors fall prey to an annoying, lazy tendency to vilify one love interest while sanctifying the other in love triangles, stacking the deck in the future "winner's" favor. This is the 2nd book that I have read from the author, and my love for her writing style has increased after finishing this story. I was very impressed with this book and the real feelings Mason was able to transmit through the pages. Over the course of the story, told in now time and flash backs, we discover that The H had problems with alcohol after his dad left his mother for the woman he’d been cheating with and the teenage H was left to listen to his mum grieve for his dad every night.
Lots of emotions through this read, the story takes us through families, love, friendship, hope, sadness and new beginnings. As she deals with the mixed emotions of an amicable divorce, Celine becomes preoccupied with her daughter and the dating agency she founded—not least when her ex-husband, Mike, asks her to find him someone new.We follow them both as they make new friends, paint, take photographs, work, flirt and keep bumping into each other. And with the failure of my marriage, should I have made the effort to reach out to the guy for whom I really cared? Somehow that initial love--the perverbial "first love" has never been left behind and a chanced glimpse of Patrick during a trip to London--a 10th anniversary trip, of all things--ultimately precipitates the end of the marriage. The story is set in the present day with flashbacks to their childhood but throughout the whole story there is an underlying mystery as to what caused them to lose touch for so long and become so distant.
Finn's relationship with his mother in particular pulled at the heartstrings and I very nearly shed a tear (it takes a lot to make me cry at a book) The romance potential may have fallen flat for me but the emotions were there in other ways and I would have preferred the side stories were the main focus. When they jokingly sign an agreement that they will marry if they are still single neither think they will need it. Last Time We Met is a dual narrative told by Eleanor and Fin and a dual timeline spanning their teenage years and leading up to the present time. If you fancy picking up a poolside read, or something to cosy up on the couch with, Last Time We Met might just be the read you need (you may also need tissues! And lastly, I think it important for fans of romance fiction who need to be reminded that the HEA ending is, in many real situations, a fiction in and of itself.A lot of the time, these kinds of books are as sickly sweet as the icing on the carrot cake I was eating at the time of writing this review but – much like her debut – Last Time We Met isn’t all sweetness and light. The author compares that exciting instant attraction kind of love with dependable, deep friendship love. Handsome and stylish Victor is reunited by chance with David, his first love, fifteen years after the last time they saw each other.
diamond ear studs she bolts off, leaving him standing in the middle of the street, running after a man she thought is her long lost 4-day former lover? Though her own romantic life has always been fraught with uncertainty, it is her job to forge romantic connections between clients. She admits to her sister that she is not ‘in love’ with Mike as she can only recognise Patrick as her one true love. There are a plethora of side characters that enrich this storyline with complex and bittersweet moments, but also sweet and endearing ones. They have an unhealthy co-dependent relationship as addict and enabler for most of the story, which we see them intending to change but with no actual change to show for the years they have known each other.I blubbed my way through some of the pages and laughed at the stubborn attitude of Heidi, this is a story that sends your emotions all over the place. I was very taken with Patrick and Celine’s romance and wished the story had focused exclusively on that as well as Celine’s marriage with Mike. Combine that with the uncertainty of divorcing the only other man you’ve loved who is also the father of your child and you’ve got The Last Time We Met.
One line stuck out as being out of place, purely because when a British character visits Canada and describes the temperature as being "in the nineties", it makes no sense given that no one in that scenario, including the British author, would use Fahrenheit.In addition to a heartfelt story, this book is so funny at times - Celine's crazy father chasing young women, and her sister making a fool of herself over a man at work. It comes as a bit of an emotional "jar" when we encounter the unhappy ending or at best, the bittersweet resolution . This is an emotionally driven story, and even though it revolves around the difficult topic of divorce, the story transmits more hope than regret. There was not a moment's boredom in this book - I was gripped from page one when Celine sighted her true love, quite by chance, in the middle of London.
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