207 Book Talk

I read  One True Loves  by Taylor Jenkins Reid because she had written one of my favorite books of 2020,  Daisy Jones and the Six . I didn't realize it at first, but she also authored one of the best audiobooks I have ever listened to, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo .  If I did not know the same person had written all three, I never would have guessed. The storylines are incredibly different, but her writing is superb in all of them. One True Loves  opens with teenage Emma Blair questioning her relationships, with her sister, her parents, with books, with her big butt. She is surprised to discover it is possible for her to have a wicked crush when she sees Jesse Lerner for the first time during her freshman year of high school. They don't end up together then, but by senior year they are a couple, and move across the country together to live the life they've both felt unable to live in Massachusetts. Their love is real and true and all-encompassing, and come...