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He is Oliver Barett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law.
She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe.
Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny immediately attract, sharing a love that defies everything... yet will end too soon. Here is a love that will linger in your heart now and forever.
"Love means never having to say you're sorry." What a load of crap! That is just not true! The very act of saying that you are sorry to someone means admitting that you feel that you have wronged them in some way and are seeking forgiveness. If you love someone that doesn't automatically give you a free pass to make mistakes and never own up to it and apologize. That line, which is said in the book a few times, annoyed me so much. It was difficult to get past it especially after what happens to prompt the one of the main characters to say that line to the other.
Can you tell that there were many things that I didn't like about Love Story? It was a very short book so I will mostly talk about the characters and their relationship as there was not much content besides that to go off of.
I didn't find either of the main characters very likable and they treated each other poorly. It seemed like that was their thing...to belittle the other as if it were a game that each of them were striving to win. I have read enemies to lovers romance before but each person at least has redeeming qualities and ended up genuinely caring for the other. There is a point in the beginning of the book where Oliver is talking to Jenny about something regarding a relationship with a family member and is being completely serious and she just brushes it off as if he were a whiny baby with no regard for his feelings. I don't think that this book should have been called love story at all.
Also...insta-love! No! If you are writing a romance and the characters dislike each other this strongly you cannot have insta-love. I will admit that at times it has its place but it didn't work in this book. It was hard for me to care about their relationship or how it affected them and those around them. The characters were not fleshed out enough to really know or understand any of them. I was sad at the end of the story because as a human being I care when people are hurting but the story didn't have the effect that I think that the author set out to achieve.
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