The Love That Split The World by Emily Henry

The Love That Split The World

by Emily Henry

Emily Henry's stunning debut novel perfectly captures those bittersweet months after high school, when we dream not only of the future, but of all the roads and paths we've left untaken. Natalie's last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical start...until she starts seeing the "wrong things." They're just momentary glimpses at first - her front door is red instead of its usual green, there's a pre-school where the garden store should be. But then her whole town disappears for hours, fading away into rolling hills and grazing buffalo, and Nat knows something isn't right. That's when she gets a visit from the kind but mysterious apparition she calls "Grandmother," who tells her: "You have three months to save him." The next night, under the stadium lights of the high school football field, she meets a beautiful boy named Beau, and it's as if time just stops and nothing exists. Nothing, except Natalie and Beau.

Reviewed by Chelsea on

3 of 5 stars

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Quick Thoughts
1. Ultimately I loved reading this book. It was interesting and only kind of predictable.
2. I didn't really like the ending. I know the author was trying to leave it a mystery but it just didn't work for me. There's too many possibilities and we really don't know what happened.
3. I love Beau as a character. He was so strong for someone being in a really tough situation. The insta-love was a little strong in this book though which turned me off a little.
4. The more I think about this book the less stars it gets. Something that really annoyed me (and I couldn't put words to it until Raeleen from padfootandprongs07 on YouTube said it) was that it felt like the author was trying to cover all her bases when it came to ethnicity, races, gender, etc... The was a lot of pushing about the character being Native American and it felt like it didn't really fit with the book. The was also a part where the character was talking about feminism and once again it didn't fit.
5. I would recommend this book to people who like to really think about the story. It's not an easy read because there's a lot to wrap your head around.

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