Author: Jennifer E.
Smith
Publisher: Poppy
Date: Available now
Source: Publisher via
Edelweiss
Grade: A
If fate sent you an email, would you answer?
When teenage movie star Graham Larkin accidentally sends small town girl Ellie O'Neill an email about his pet pig, the two seventeen-year-olds strike up a witty and unforgettable correspondence, discussing everything under the sun, except for their names or backgrounds.
Then Graham finds out that Ellie's Maine hometown is the perfect location for his latest film, and he decides to take their relationship from online to in-person. But can a star as famous as Graham really start a relationship with an ordinary girl like Ellie? And why does Ellie want to avoid the media's spotlight at all costs?
If fate sent you an email, would you answer?
When teenage movie star Graham Larkin accidentally sends small town girl Ellie O'Neill an email about his pet pig, the two seventeen-year-olds strike up a witty and unforgettable correspondence, discussing everything under the sun, except for their names or backgrounds.
Then Graham finds out that Ellie's Maine hometown is the perfect location for his latest film, and he decides to take their relationship from online to in-person. But can a star as famous as Graham really start a relationship with an ordinary girl like Ellie? And why does Ellie want to avoid the media's spotlight at all costs?
Oh, how I love chick lit when it’s well done!! And this one was sooooo well done!
Cover story
Love, love, love it!
The title is cute and catchy and the cover is cute and catchy. Just perfect for a book that is cute and
catchy!
What’s the Story?
Ellie lives in a small town in Maine and one day, she
accidentally receives an email that got sent to the wrong address. To make a long story short, she starts
emailing the boy (they do figure out that they are a boy and a girl pretty
quickly!), never knowing that he is really a very famous teen movie star. When he sees an opportunity to move his current
film on location to Ellie’s town, he does it because he really likes talking to
her in emails and wants to see what could happen in person.
This is where the story picks up and then moves into the ins
and outs of dating a celebrity. There
are some rather unusual complications in this story, however. I won’t give them away, but just let it
suffice to say that nothing about this relationship is easy.
The story and the characters however, are easy……easy to
love!! I really liked Ellie. She felt very down-to-earth and she dealt
with the complexities and hardships of her life without letting them get her
down or make her jaded. In fact, it was
probably the hardships she had growing up that prepared her for the hardships
of a relationship with a celebrity.
I loved Graham as well.
He wasn’t conceited at all and he complimented Ellie very well. I felt sorry for him a lot. He was just a guy who liked to act and had to
deal with lots of other crap in order to do what he loved.
One thing that was nice about this book was seeing glimpses
of how Ellie and Graham built their relationship over months of emailing one
another. And even so, it wasn’t
insta-love when they first meet. It was
a gradual getting to know one another all over again. But that was the best part! You know those books that give you flutters
in your tummy because you feel exactly what the girl is feeling? This was one of those books! I just wanted to stay in this world
forever.
Just to give you a hint of how much I loved this book, there
are only a couple other contemporaries that I have loved this much. For me, this book ranks right up there with
Meant To Be by Lauren Morrill, Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson and
Ditched by Robin Mellom. I loved those 3
contemporaries and this one is now in that group.
If you want a fun contemporary with a beautiful love story
and 2 really down-to-earth characters, this one is it. And now I have to run read The Statistical
Probability of Love at First Sight.
The Soundtrack
A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton
Dreams by The Cranberries
Oh, Is It Love? By Hellogoodbye
Kiss Me by Six Pence None the Richer
I Knew I Loved You by Savage Garden
When You Say Nothing at All by Alison Krauss
The Final Grade
My final grade for this book is an A. It’s been a week and a half since I read it
and I’m sitting here writing this review with a huge grin on my face because of
how much I enjoyed this book. If that’s
not a good reason, I don’t know what is!
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