melanieasmithauthor's review
4.0
3.5 Stars!
Naïve in Love is an interesting, relatable story. Even though it took me a bit to get into, it almost immediately brought me back to my college days and balancing the struggles of transitioning, friendships, boys, and classes. By the halfway point I was chuckling, wishing I could send this book to my eighteen-year-old self with the note “Boys like Caleb = BAD, Boys like Ethan = PURE GOLD.”
And despite typically not loving the insecure, dependent female main character, I found Sophia’s struggles to be very representative of the doubts and mistakes all females make at one point or another, especially as it served a purpose to demonstrate the necessity of our struggles in making us who we are. It was well summed up by this gem at the end:
“Would I have chosen this path had I known? Probably not. But that is the thing about life, it leads you through obstacles to build your strength and character.”
Naïve in Love is an interesting, relatable story. Even though it took me a bit to get into, it almost immediately brought me back to my college days and balancing the struggles of transitioning, friendships, boys, and classes. By the halfway point I was chuckling, wishing I could send this book to my eighteen-year-old self with the note “Boys like Caleb = BAD, Boys like Ethan = PURE GOLD.”
And despite typically not loving the insecure, dependent female main character, I found Sophia’s struggles to be very representative of the doubts and mistakes all females make at one point or another, especially as it served a purpose to demonstrate the necessity of our struggles in making us who we are. It was well summed up by this gem at the end:
“Would I have chosen this path had I known? Probably not. But that is the thing about life, it leads you through obstacles to build your strength and character.”
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