Review Time!: The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight

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This Review Time showcases the YA novel: 

The Statistical Probability Of Love At First Sight!

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The Specs:

Format: Hardcover; ebook

Publisher: Poppy; 1st edition

Pages: 256

Average Rating: 4.5 stars

My Rating: 5 stars

The Amazon Synopsis:

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. She's stuck at JFK, late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon to be step-mother that 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 in seat 18C. Hadley's in 18A.

Twists of fate and quirks of timing play out in this thoughtful novel about family connections, second chances and first loves. Set over a 24-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it.

My Thoughts:

This book, for me, was love at first sight. Couple the heart-breaking reality of divorce, the wonder of first love, and the power of said love to bring people together, and you have a heartwarming novel.

The thing I loved most about this story was the honesty. Upon looking at the synopsis, I figured that the story would be a cute boy-meets-girl romance that would mainly focus on said boy and girl, and how they found one another and fell in love. And, when the story started, that is exactly how it went along -- until we get in a few chapters, and fall into the story's real heart, its honesty.

This book was a love story in many ways, but not only the story of love between a boy and girl who just so happened to meet. It's also a story about a girl and her father, who left her and her mother to move away, and who is now getting married to another woman. It's a story of this girl coming to terms with the reasons her father left, and them patching up their relationship (as well as her patching up the relationship with her mother). There are flashbacks detailing the relationship between her and her father, and her hatred of her new step-mother is completely understandable -- the author really put a lot of emotion into this story, so that it ended up being, really, more a story of a girl and her father, than the story of a girl and the boy who fate magically brought to her.

I also loved the setting of the story -- England -- and the fact that everything went by time. The novel starts off saying how four minutes could change everything, and I loved seeing how the subtle amount of time lost really sped the story forward, and led to the "what would happen if I just so happened to miss a plane, and then met someone" factor. The main character is also very believable, and though the story is written in a different style than most, I quickly fell into the tale, and felt as if I was actually feeling the emotions right along with her.

I give this story five of five stars; it's a tale that will go on my favorites list! This is a good book for teens, though older teens would probably enjoy it more, and it may be enjoyed by adults as well. As far as content, only (very) mild language in this novel.

Prepare for emotion, crafty storytelling, and the honesty of love to draw you into this inspirational story of relationships.

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