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A review by amberisalwaysreading86
Truly Madly Deeply by L.J. Shen
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
The story featured a couple who were imperfect, insecure, and damaged… But their all consuming love was nothing short of perfection.
I laughed.
I cried.
I snorted and chuckled through banter and genius bouts of sarcasm from side characters who embodied the perfect layers of snark, and wit.
I may have thrown my hands up in the air and screamed at the main character’s stubbornness a few dozen times, but by the end of this book, I was openly weeping and grinning from ear to ear,because their happy ending gives hope to all humans who feel unworthy and too damaged to deserve an epic love.
Watching Ambrose not only embrace Calla’s quirkiness,unique personality,and style, but push her so far past her fears that she for once in her life, was able to love herself and see her perfection through his eyes, was extremely moving.
The author did a fantastic job with keeping the characters true to their authentic selves, so much so, that I fell in love with them myself.
(…and as a child who grew up in the late 80s and early 90s I couldn’t possibly appreciate the playlist and the pop culture references more)
I’m greatly looking forward to book 2 in this series, and can’t recommend this one highly enough!
I laughed.
I cried.
I snorted and chuckled through banter and genius bouts of sarcasm from side characters who embodied the perfect layers of snark, and wit.
I may have thrown my hands up in the air and screamed at the main character’s stubbornness a few dozen times, but by the end of this book, I was openly weeping and grinning from ear to ear,because their happy ending gives hope to all humans who feel unworthy and too damaged to deserve an epic love.
Watching Ambrose not only embrace Calla’s quirkiness,unique personality,and style, but push her so far past her fears that she for once in her life, was able to love herself and see her perfection through his eyes, was extremely moving.
The author did a fantastic job with keeping the characters true to their authentic selves, so much so, that I fell in love with them myself.
(…and as a child who grew up in the late 80s and early 90s I couldn’t possibly appreciate the playlist and the pop culture references more)
I’m greatly looking forward to book 2 in this series, and can’t recommend this one highly enough!