I bought this paperback in the London Luton airport and read half of it during my 5 hour flight to Kutaisi.

Mailed to Bluemchenblatt as a RABCK

Thank you for the RABCK and the matching postcard!
The question is: read it now or read it ‘in season’? Tough decisions!

Backcover text:

Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist. After all, life isn’t a scene from the movies, is it?

But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she instantly knows is the one. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away.

Laurie thinks she’ll never see the boy from the bus again. But at their Christmas party a year later, her best friend Sarah introduces her to the new love of her life. Who is, of cours, the boy from the bus.

Determined to let him go,
Laurie gets on with her life.

But what if fate has other plans?

It is an easy read. The doubts that are expressed by Laurie are probably the same many of us have, in many ways, which make her in many ways likeable. The setting and the initial outlook are very promising and I enjoyed reading the beginning. So far for the good points.
The back cover text gives away too much. It makes the story even more predictable than it is anyway. I never really warmed to Jack - for some reason he didn’t seem very likeable but rather bland to me. The halfway journal entry style of storytelling with how the story was split and extended over years didn’t convince me.

I guess my expectations might have simply been too high from the start, knowing that the previous readers have liked it very much. From the excerpt of another of Josie Silver’s book at the end I also gather her writing style may not be quite right for me.
I’m hoping the next reader will be more enthused.

Released during the Straßburg MBC at the book table.

Libéré à l'occasion du MBC de Strasbourg, le samedi 25 septembre sur la table à livres, à l'attention des participants.

Libération pour les défis ABC libérations et Bookalauréat 2021.

Bluemchenblatt is the queen of bookcrossers: not only does she liberate tons of books but she leaves a charming little message on the cover of each one. Well, this one will travel from Kehl to Strasbourg and to Lausanne, maybe further...

Chapter 1, girl tired after work goes home in bus, looks out of window, sees man of her dreams sitting in the shelter, he catches her eye and she falls in love with him (but he doesn't get on the bus).
- At this moment I wondered if he had smiled at his own reflection. Maybe: I didn't read many more pages.
About 30 pages in, flatmate of narrator promises to introduce wonderful new boyfriend.
- Obviously this is going to be lover boy from the bus stop.

And then I read the back cover blurb which tells me this already.

So I closed it and will read something else.

sur le banc de l'arrêt de bus en face de la Coop (côté pont) (bus 6 et 7).

Dans le cadre du défi Saint des Saints, eh oui il y a une Sainte Caroline