One Day in December
By: Josie Silver
Grade: B
I picked this up from Book of the Month knowing that because of the title if I didn’t actually read it this month it would probably sit on the shelf for a year. Like sitting around waiting for the dreamy guy you saw at a bus stop. See? The good thing about celebrity fantasies (hello Jason!) you know they aren’t going to turn up on the arm of your best friend.
Unless she’s seriously not telling me something…
Laurie and Jack see each other at a bus stop one snowy December night. She spends the next year looking for him until he turns up with her best friend Sarah- the new love of Sarah’s life.
This starts a ten-year long friendship in which they never really let go of the idea of each other and Jack turns into a bit of an unlikeable dick for a long swath of time.
I liked the idea of One Day in December- the idea that sometimes life intervenes in true love or even just love. That it’s not a book. There are other things to take into consideration. Other people’s feelings you value. And life has many paths other people you may love and other journey’s you may need to take.
I love that stuff. Also much appreciated was Laurie’s twisting career path. It takes a typical book romance and makes it and the characters feel real to me. But in the end its still a book romance and around 2012 (it runs from 2008 to current times) I was mostly like let’s just reach the inevitable conclusion.
Whether it reached the inevitable conclusion or not you can find out for yourselves. Though I did think the end was a bit over the top. Overall I’d still say this is a cute book and a good holiday read. It’s not to taxing and easy to pick up and put down again if you’re busy.
It just didn’t need to be a whole decade long 🙂
Recommend: Yes.
I enjoyed this one, too! A fun and heartwarming read! Wonderful review!
Thanks!
That sounds like such a fun holiday read. I’m definitely keeping it in mind for when I crave something quick to read to keep my entertained.
Great review. 😊 And lol to Jason and your friend remark… you never know… 😉😂
No I would know 🙂 I think I could sniff him out!
🙂 🙂 🙂
This sounds like a good holiday read- easy and sweet. I keep seeing it on people’s blogs and on to read lists, so maybe I will pick it up. The idea is a bit cliche and far fetched (I’m 98% sure they will end up together), but who am I to judge? I fall for these kinds of tricks every time 🙂 Thanks!
I pretty much always fall for them to 🙂
Yeah Jack is an unlikeable dick for a lot of periods of time. I did like the twisting career element as well- that was a nice touch. hehe I get what you mean about the end though 😉 Great review!
I just couldn’t help feel- would people in Scotland really care so much about a radio announcers love life? I never lived in Scotland so I don’t know but I just couldn’t by that 🙂
hehehe I doubt it (I’ve lived there as well- so I probably should have thought of how unlikely this was while I was reading it 😉 )
I’ve been reading so many spoiler free reviews of the book that I still don’t know what happens at the end, who would have thought a romance book would create so much suspense? Can’t wait to read this, although I think I’ll probably be impatient and just want to know what happens in the end… will they, won’t they? 😅