Before: Reena Montero has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she can remember: as natural as breathing, as endless as time. But he’s never seemed to notice that Reena even exists…until one day, impossibly, he does. Reena and Sawyer fall in messy, complicated love. But then Sawyer disappears from their humid Florida town without a word, leaving a devastated—and pregnant—Reena behind.
After: Almost three years have passed, and there’s a new love in Reena’s life: her daughter, Hannah. Reena’s gotten used to being without Sawyer, and she’s finally getting the hang of this strange, unexpected life. But just as swiftly and suddenly as he disappeared, Sawyer turns up again. Reena doesn’t want anything to do with him, though she’d be lying if she said Sawyer’s being back wasn’t stirring something in her. After everything that’s happened, can Reena really let herself love Sawyer LeGrande again?
In this breathtaking debut, Katie Cotugno weaves together the story of one couple falling in love—twice. (From Goodreads.com)
After: Almost three years have passed, and there’s a new love in Reena’s life: her daughter, Hannah. Reena’s gotten used to being without Sawyer, and she’s finally getting the hang of this strange, unexpected life. But just as swiftly and suddenly as he disappeared, Sawyer turns up again. Reena doesn’t want anything to do with him, though she’d be lying if she said Sawyer’s being back wasn’t stirring something in her. After everything that’s happened, can Reena really let herself love Sawyer LeGrande again?
In this breathtaking debut, Katie Cotugno weaves together the story of one couple falling in love—twice. (From Goodreads.com)
How to Love is the real reason you should be looking forward to October. Screw Halloween, this book is so much easier to devour than candy, and leaves you wanting more, not a sick feeling in your stomach.
The storyline goes back and forth between Before and After, which isn't as confusing as it seems. If you're lazy (like me sometimes) and you forget to read what it says at the beginning of the chapter, you can get a little mixed up, but you can always figure it out in the end. I think it was a really interesting choice to write the story in that way, but I can see why. Having two stories (or two parts of the same story, in this case) going on at the same time makes the reader want to keep going and going so that they can find out what happens next in the past or the present.
Reena is one of those characters that you want to yell at the whole time, but you know that if you were in her situation, you would be doing the exact same things. Sawyer isn't what I would call my dream guy, but Cotugno writes him in a way that I fall in love with him and his sappy romantic ways. When I picked up How to Love I was told that it was going to be pretty cheesy, and in some ways it was, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It's another book with the perfect amount of cheesiness.
The storyline goes back and forth between Before and After, which isn't as confusing as it seems. If you're lazy (like me sometimes) and you forget to read what it says at the beginning of the chapter, you can get a little mixed up, but you can always figure it out in the end. I think it was a really interesting choice to write the story in that way, but I can see why. Having two stories (or two parts of the same story, in this case) going on at the same time makes the reader want to keep going and going so that they can find out what happens next in the past or the present.
Reena is one of those characters that you want to yell at the whole time, but you know that if you were in her situation, you would be doing the exact same things. Sawyer isn't what I would call my dream guy, but Cotugno writes him in a way that I fall in love with him and his sappy romantic ways. When I picked up How to Love I was told that it was going to be pretty cheesy, and in some ways it was, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It's another book with the perfect amount of cheesiness.
A Review by Mia, A Yellow Book Road Teen Book Club Member
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