Once and for All
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- 6,99 €
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- 6,99 €
Publisher Description
From Sarah Dessen, the beloved New York Times bestselling author of SAINT ANYTHING and JUST LISTEN, comes a new novel set in the world of wedding planning!
Is it really better to have loved and lost? Louna's summer job is to help brides plan their perfect day, even though she stopped believing in happily-ever-after when her first love ended tragically. But charming girl-magnet Ambrose isn't about to be discouraged now that he's met the one he really wants. Maybe Louna's second chance is standing right in front of her.
Sarah Dessen’s many fans will adore this latest novel, a richly satisfying, enormously entertaining story with humor, romance, and an ending that is so much more than happily-ever-after.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In her 13th book, Sarah Dessen weaves together a coming-of-age novel and a story about love … and comes up with something completely unexpected. Teenager Louna Barrett soaks up plenty of lessons about romantic ideals (not necessarily positive ones) while working for her mother’s wedding-planning business. But when she and charming, free-spirited Ambrose enter into a bet to test each other's relationship habits, she has to examine her personal beliefs about love and heartbreak. Written in Dessen’s detailed and relatable voice, this is another tender, honest, and questioning perspective on growing up.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Seventeen-year-old Louna was in love once, but it ended in tragedy when her long-distance boyfriend, Ethan, was killed in a school shooting. Louna has since stopped believing she will find love again, though she is surrounded by constant reminders of it: she works for her mother's successful, high-end wedding-planning business. When Louna's mother temporarily hires Ambrose, the gorgeous but unpredictable son of a client, Louna is charged with making sure that Ambrose doesn't make their summer weddings any more difficult. Dessen's fans will revel in the familiarity of her steady, empathic writing, as well as her attention to detail particularly the painstaking care Louna and her mother devote to every aspect of a wedding, including their nervous and tightly wound clients and the emotionally layered characters that populate her story. Dessen (Saint Anything) include a hint of romance between Louna and Ambrose, but this novel is more about grief and recovery. Flashbacks of Louna's relationship with Ethan, interspersed among the present-day chapters, movingly juxtapose her loss with her tentative efforts to move forward from it. Ages 12 up.
