Book: The
Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Author:
Jennifer E. Smith
Publisher:
Poppy/ Little Brown
Genre: Young Adult Romance, Fiction
“Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.”- Mom
“I’m not talking about love, I’m talking about marriage.”-
Hadley
“That is even worse.”- Mom
Blurb via Goodreads:
Who would
have guessed that four minutes could change everything?
Today should
be one of the worst days of seventeen-year old Hadley Sullivan's
life. Having
missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second
wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother
Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His
name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row.
A long night
on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose
track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together
once more?
Quirks of
timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family connections, second chances, and
first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will
make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting
it.
My Synopsis:
Hadley and Oliver
need to go to London for two very different reasons. Hadley's father is getting remarried
and she is angry. He left her and her mom for a job opportunity in
London, which was supposed to last a few months.
Next thing she knew, her
parents had broken
up and he had fallen for someone else, hence the
wedding. Though she was always closer to her dad than her mom, this changes every single thing.
Hadley and Oliver meet accidentally at the airport.
She is late for her flight and has been moved to the next one and is seated
next to Oliver. Ten
hours of talking, sharing and dozing with and next to each other
ends in one certainty, and that is Hadley
has fallen for him.
They part at the
airport not knowing each other's surnames, much less other crucial information,
except for one thing:
Paddington. So off Hadley goes to search for what
could be something real...... Or something
that could break her heart.
My Review:
Though
this book was mostly about growing up, realizations and acceptance within a short 24 hours, I felt thoroughly engaged in the
story.
I hurt
with Hadley. Her flashbacks, specifically to when she was a child with a doting
father, were painful. He was very much her
hero, the almost perfect dad who had all the answers until he fell in love with
another woman and broke all his promises to his family, to Hadley.
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| Author Jennifer E. Smith |
The circumstances he put his wife and daughter in were
unacceptable to me, but then again, Hadley is a forgiving person,
or at least she becomes one after meeting Oliver and understanding his side of the
story which is a total opposite of hers.
Is it really better to have had something
wonderful and lost it than to have had nothing at all? Is it best to forgive when all is settled with everyone happy
but yourself? I can't say. Hadley is a good
character. Much too young to have been put in the situation she was in
but well handled in the end.
What I get from this story is that when true love and happiness presents itself to you, no matter what is in the way, you have to grab it, then fix everything else after. Because those who truly love you will eventually understand and give way to what is important.
This story
does have its sweet romance, but more than that, it's about family that breaks and slowly heals in
the end.
Meet authors Jennifer E. Smith and Lissa Price this weekend and get your copies signed! September 19, 6pm at the SM Cebu; September 20, 2pm at the SM Aura
Premier and September
21, 2 to 4pm at the SMX Convention Center for the Manila International Book fair. Be
early as there are only 200 slots available on the last signing day. This
is upon the invitation of the National Book Store.
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