Things I Know About Love
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- $7.99
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Publisher Description
Not all true love is destined to last . . .
Livia knows three things about love so far:
1. People don't always tell you the truth about how they feel.
2. Nothing that happens between two people is guaranteed to be private.
3. She doesn't know if you ever get over having your heart broken.
Livia's experience of love has been disappointing to say the least. But all that is about to change. After years of illness, she's off to spend the summer with her brother in America. She's making up for lost time, and she's writing it all down in her private blog. America is everything she ever dreamed of - and then she meets Adam. Can Livia put the past behind her and risk falling in love again?
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This quick reading debut novel is narrated by 17-year-old Livia Stowe, who lives in England and who has spent the better part of her high school years in a hospital, battling leukemia. Now in remission, Livia feels behind her friends: "I missed so much of the last year that I'm the only one of us who didn't apply to university, the only one without a plan." After convincing her overprotective mother to let her travel to America, where her older brother is studying at Princeton, Livia chronicles her experiences on a blog. Her posts make up the novel and detail her relationship with Adam, a fellow Brit, as well as her memories of old boyfriends. Le Vann realistically writes about Livia's excitement about her new romance coupled with her heightened sense of mortality. Occasional blog entries from Adam are interspersed, demonstrating that he is falling just as hard for Livia as she is for him. A tragic twist changes the mostly breezy tone and may leave readers unsettled and thinking about Livia long after they've turned the last page. Ages 12 up.
