You're the One That I Want

I didn't like it. Don't read further if you don't want spoilers: The whole book is about a girl who is in love with 2 men at the same time, and the 3 of them are best friends. I couldn't relate to it or find it believable. There's no good ending since she claims to love both of them so she has to settle for one of them so as not to hurt the other. Would you get married because of that? It's not a good love story. I wouldn't recommend it.

This book managed to build itself up to be quite anticlimactic and was filled with fairly ordinary events instead of a lot of excitement. I enjoyed it, but felt a little let down.

Reading this in the US, I really enjoyed all the Britishisms--especially when the three go to university, just because it's different in some ways but similar in others to the American system, and I always enjoy hearing how things are done in other countries. Small details like the chocolate hobnob biscuits I found to be terribly amusing.

I also enjoyed watching the three grow up--with scenes like a wedding at elementary school graduation, there's a lot of sweetness to the story and in a way I felt like one of their parents, being able to see them mature.

Ben and Maddy both serve as the narrators for this book, and I unfortunately found them to be very similar--at points I could barely distinguish between the two voices. For people with very different lifestyles, ambitions, and points of view, I felt like the author could have done a better job at making their voices more compelling. Maddy, supposedly a siren, was probably the least developed because I really couldn't understand why the boys were in love with her other than out of habit.

My biggest issue with this book, however, was the first chapter and how it built up the entire rest of the book. It creates a lot of suspense, but then doesn't deliver, because if it hadn't been for the first chapter, I really wouldn't have found much of a conflict and the book would have just been more sad. I did like the ultimate resolution in one character, but there was a huge missed opportunity for conflict in that a third character knew very little of everything else... The entire book, I was waiting for this conflict, but it never happened.

This was enjoyable and I found the growing up of the characters to be very sweet, but it was a lot less conflict filled than the first chapter let on. I did read this in a day though--I was engrossed and kept waiting for a conflict.

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book was awful! It was basically just a whining of why she loved both guys but then why she was with the one she was with. It was just very teenage drama the whole book through. I expected so much more, it could have been much more. Very disappointed!

Great condition! Good book!

Good.

amazing!

Giovanna Fletcher is my favorite author! I have read and loved almost all of her books. I was a little disappointed with ending, but that is how life would be. Sometimes things just don't work out the way that you think they will. I loved that it was a realistic ending, even though my heart wanted it the other way.

It was given as a Christmas gift and the recipient was thrilled!

Wow, what a lovely story.
I loved the way this is written with two points of view. I loved to see the friendship between the three of them blossom and grow to something more.
I am still doubting if I wanted the ending this way or Maddy with the other love of her life.

I love this book even more than her first book.
couldn't stop reading.

Loved it, of course.