Description
One Day meets Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist in this heart-warming teen romance novel told over the course of 24 hours.
Darcy believes in love at first sight. She's spent her whole life waiting for that perfect magical moment.
When Darcy finds herself stranded at a bus station after a music festival, her life is anything but perfect. She is convinced nothing good can come of this night ... until she meets Russell.
Russell is funny, kind and extremely cute. And just what Darcy has been waiting for.
But over the course of twenty-four hours - filled with night swimming, run-ins with the law, epic road trips and dramatic revelations - Darcy will have to question everything she believes about love. Can you really fall for someone you just met? And is it worth saying hello when you know you're destined for a goodbye?
From New York Times bestselling author Morgan Matson comes a sweeping romantic novel about love, fate ... and one night that can change everything.
Review
Eighteen-year-old Darcy decided to travel outside of her comfort zone and attend a music festival with abarely-friend. She finishes up practically broke, with a dead phone and stuck at a remote train station for the night. Having always been a fan of romance movies, when she meets Russell and they have an instant connection she dreams that she might finally get her happy ending?
What follows is one hundred or more pages of a perfect, albeit a bit cheesy, story of love at first sight. But then Darcy discovers that most of what Russell has told her is a lie...
He is actually the son of a rock star in a band that Darcy and her Dad idolise. When they are rescued in the rock star’s helicopter, after being apprehended for a misdemeanour, Darcy thinks that they are done. But after she meets his large and unconventional family, and they are so nice and totally different to what is painted in the media, she starts to understand and forgive Russell. Can they actually be that perfect couple that she was so sure that she first imagined?
Darcy and Russell help each other to understand that families are not perfect, but that sometimes, maybe, your parents are trying to do what they believe is best for you. As they reimagine what their uncertain first year of college, or not going to college at all, could actually look like, they help each other to develop as people.
This is a terrific love at first sight romance novel that occurs over the course of 24 hours. It could be a bit predictable at times, but none the less will appeal to many young readers. Containing some course language, and with the plot being a love story with no explicit, but certainly inferred, sexual activity, it will best suit readers aged 15 and older.
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