After a couple cups of coffee and Kleenex boxes I’m finally ready to talk about A GIRL LIKE LILAC. I’m familiar with the author’s writing, but it’s amazing how she always surprises me with her characters. This time wasn’t different.
When I started to read I had no idea where everything was heading. I was into a teenage girl talking about life, magic, photography... and about Toby Hunter, the boy next door. The candid approach was sweet and made me smile. And then I smiled wider when I also had the chance to be into Toby's mind because that's a wonderful place to be.
Every turn of a page in this book was exciting, and I found myself wondering what would happen next. I was totally into the book, living the story through the characters eyes, loving with them, dreaming beside them, and having my heart broken the same way they did. And you know what? It was beautiful (probably because I'm kinda masochist or something).
Lilac and Toby’s love was made of something epic… something magical, so It’s OK to say that there’s magic in this book. A magical kind of love, that’s it. But this book isn’t a fairy-tale. But it isn’t a just tragedy either… It’s both and more, a comedy, a drama…, just like real life. Lilac and Toby’s book was heartbreaking, but beautiful and intense and… guys, it was perfect! It’s all I can think about this book: that it’s perfect.
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This book will forever hold a spot on my favorites list!
MY HEART, THIS BOOK!!!! It’s rare that I read a love story and can find so many things I adore about both the leading characters but Toby and Lilac were both so special in their own ways and left an imprint on my heart. Their love was epic and all consuming and really just something that pulled me into the pages. I sobbed through my coffee this morning finishing A Girl Like Lilac yet here I am hours later still thinking about it and feeling emotional. In the endnote from the author she said “The only fairy tales to exist are fairy tales. Your life isn’t meant to be one. It’s meant to be a tragedy, a romance, and a comedy you survive, thrive, and remember” - No truer words could be spoken and could encompass the feeling behind this whole beautiful book. James didn’t shy away from the bruised and broken pieces of these characters or the unfairness that is the world we live in but rather she leaned into it evoking every single emotion within these pages.
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- Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2020
MY HEART, THIS BOOK!!!! It’s rare that I read a love story and can find so many things I adore about both the leading characters but Toby and Lilac were both so special in their own ways and left an imprint on my heart. Their love was epic and all consuming and really just something that pulled me into the pages. I sobbed through my coffee this morning finishing A Girl Like Lilac yet here I am hours later still thinking about it and feeling emotional. In the endnote from the author she said “The only fairy tales to exist are fairy tales. Your life isn’t meant to be one. It’s meant to be a tragedy, a romance, and a comedy you survive, thrive, and remember” - No truer words could be spoken and could encompass the feeling behind this whole beautiful book. James didn’t shy away from the bruised and broken pieces of these characters or the unfairness that is the world we live in but rather she leaned into it evoking every single emotion within these pages.
This book will forever hold a spot on my favorites list!
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2020
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- CathyReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 13, 2018
Second half is fast paced and gripping
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Miss MorelliReviewed in Germany on February 13, 2019
Amazing!! Wunderschöne Liebesgeschichte
