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Miss You by Kate Eberlen

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melissakuzma's review against another edition

5.0

Loved this! For fans of David Nichols, Marian Keyes, Anna Maxted, early Lisa Jewell, and the movie Sliding Doors. Delightful!

raisingself's review against another edition

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1.0

I hate this book. It's depressing and filled with cheating, bad decisions and worst case scenarios.

jmatkinson1's review against another edition

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5.0

In 1995 Tess is inter railing through Italy with her friend Doll and awaiting the A level results which will make her the first in the family to go to University. Gus is in Florence with his parents, a family fractured by the death of Gus' brother. The two bump into each other a couple of times but it doesn't really register. Over the next 16 years Tess and Gus make their own ways in the world, oblivious to each other until they meet and then it all becomes clear - they were meant to be together.

Giving a plot synopsis like this makes me feel as though this is the last book I would be interested in reading and yet I loved every second of it! Tess and Gus are likeable characters and, whilst I felt real frustration with their actions and lives, they are sympathetic and relatable. Yet it still has a lot of social commentary on class, prejudice etc, loads of little asides that place it firmly in the era that is the subject of that section and a good dollop of pathos which is handled well. This is far better than run of the mill chick lit, Eberlen has crafted a genuinely warm book that wraps round you - it almost wants to be read on the sofa in winter with a mug of hot chocolate, it's that cosy.

abeth_parker's review against another edition

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2.0

Ugh. I loved the story! A chance meeting, followed by years of near misses. It's a sweet idea. However, this fluffy read was, unfortunately, sprinkled with unnecessarily graphic encounters. You can convey the relationships that come and go and change as the years go by without all the extra details. Just saying. If I could go through a copy and black all of that out, I would. It didn't add anything, and turns me off to seeking out any other books by this author.

lornesausage10's review against another edition

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3.0

Despite finishing this in three days, I've given this three stars - though it's really more of a two and a half. So, the story is supposed to be set in the mid to late nineties at the beginning, but there are a few cultural references that are a bit too recent to be from the 90s and the book overall is a bit of a cliché - there's been quite a few from this 'what if' genre over the last few years and it's all getting a bit grating. David Nicholls has a lot to answer for!