If fate sent you an email, would you answer?
In This is What Happy Looks Like, Jennifer E. Smith's new YA novel, perfect strangers Graham Larkin and Ellie O'Neill meet—albeit virtually—when Graham accidentally sends Ellie an email about his pet pig, Wilbur. In the tradition of romantic movies like "You've Got Mail" and "Sleepless in Seattle," the two 17-year-olds strike up an email relationship, even though they live on opposite sides of the country and don't even know eachothers first names.
Through a series of funny and poignant messages, Graham and Ellie make a true connection, sharing intimate details about their lives, hopes and fears. But they don't tell each other everything; Graham doesn't know the major secret hidden in Ellie's family tree, and Ellie is innocently unaware that Graham is actually a world-famous teen actor living in Los Angeles.
When the location for the shoot of Graham's new film falls through, he sees an opportunity to take their relationship from online to in-person, managing to get the production relocated to picturesque Henley, Maine, where Ellie lives. But can a star as famous as Graham have a real relationship with an ordinary girl like Ellie? And why does Ellie's mom want her to avoid the media's spotlight at all costs?
Just as they did in The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, the hands of fate intervene in wondrous ways in this YA novel that delivers on high concept romance in lush and thoughtful prose.
In This is What Happy Looks Like, Jennifer E. Smith's new YA novel, perfect strangers Graham Larkin and Ellie O'Neill meet—albeit virtually—when Graham accidentally sends Ellie an email about his pet pig, Wilbur. In the tradition of romantic movies like "You've Got Mail" and "Sleepless in Seattle," the two 17-year-olds strike up an email relationship, even though they live on opposite sides of the country and don't even know eachothers first names.
Through a series of funny and poignant messages, Graham and Ellie make a true connection, sharing intimate details about their lives, hopes and fears. But they don't tell each other everything; Graham doesn't know the major secret hidden in Ellie's family tree, and Ellie is innocently unaware that Graham is actually a world-famous teen actor living in Los Angeles.
When the location for the shoot of Graham's new film falls through, he sees an opportunity to take their relationship from online to in-person, managing to get the production relocated to picturesque Henley, Maine, where Ellie lives. But can a star as famous as Graham have a real relationship with an ordinary girl like Ellie? And why does Ellie's mom want her to avoid the media's spotlight at all costs?
Just as they did in The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, the hands of fate intervene in wondrous ways in this YA novel that delivers on high concept romance in lush and thoughtful prose.
I read The Geography Of
You And Me by this author and absolutely loved it, I loved is so much
that I went out and bought this one. However it didn't grip me as much
as The Geography Of You And Me, don't get me wrong I still found this
book an easy and enjoyable read but I just felt as though the storyline
was so obvious. I knew what was going to happen when it was going to
happen and part of the enjoyment I find in books is the suspense, not
being able to tell what is going to happen and when.
I loved the characters in this book, just like I loved them in her other book i've read... Jennifer E.Smith has a talent for writing loveable characters. I went through all kinds of emotions with Ellie and Graham from smiling stupidly at the book and their relationship to wanting different outcomes to certain situations they found themselves in.
I loved the characters in this book, just like I loved them in her other book i've read... Jennifer E.Smith has a talent for writing loveable characters. I went through all kinds of emotions with Ellie and Graham from smiling stupidly at the book and their relationship to wanting different outcomes to certain situations they found themselves in.
I am actually struggling
for anything else to say about this book just because I found it so
simple and probably to do with the fact that i'm really sick at the
moment so I think I will leave it as that... I am not sure whether I
want to buy her other book now after reading this.
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