Adelaide

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Listen, I know I am an outlier here with this rating, so I feel the need to thoroughly explain in my review. Adelaide wants so much and loves so much, but she can't get it in return. She has wonderful friends, a little too wonderful--I sometimes felt it unrealistic that her friends were unwaveringly supportive, even when she was selfish. Adelaide Williams is a 20-something American living in dreamy London. With wonderful friends and fierce ambitions, Adelaide has little interest in finding “The One” right now. But when she meets Rory Hughes on a dating app — a charming Englishman who’s been placed there by fate, she swears — that all changes. All of a sudden, Adelaide finds herself completely in love. The book made me sad for her, and for a version of me that relates to what she went through with Rory. I thought the writing was really good, engaging, and easy to digest despite the heavy undertone of the book.

If you like deeply emotional women's fiction, this book is a fantastic example. It's not an easy read, but it's definitely worthwhile. Anyways, I found the book as a whole to be infuriating. There were other parts and lines that I could dissect, but I think at this point you catch my drift. I decided to settle on almost four stars here as I did think about this book a bit in the days after reading it. I find myself with not all that much to say about it though, which is odd. So we shall see how this goes... Adelaide attempts to rationalize and excuse Rory’s behavior on a number of occasions. Why does she do this? What does it say about her character, and about his? Were there moments in the novel where you felt compassion toward Rory? Why or why not? And speaking of Rory, if she had been healthy (this will eventually be explained in the book), she would have recognized that he didn’t deserve her. Despite her shortcomings, or the issues that were eventually revealed, she was a likeable character.Emotional and poignant, Genevieve Wheeler has made a remarkable debut with her fresh, modern voice. I was charmed. Adelaide exposes the raw edges of early adulthood and unrequited love, ultimately showing us that the true magic of life is that it's always worth living.” The ending ... yes, the ending wrapped up "nicely" and had a cute little message to it. Again, I agree with the message. It is something my mother-in-law would always say. But OF COURSE, everything got to be "okay" when Adelaide moved on and found another man. (and yes, we all saw the bubs thing happening from a mile away). Why couldn't we get more time with Adelaide working on herself and not needing her happiness to stem from a man?

This was my first listening experience with the narrator and she completely convinced me she was Adelaide. She conveyed the emotions needed in all the right moments but never lost the character’s sweetness. She nailed her. Does he respond to texts? Honor his commitments? Make advanced plans? Sometimes, rarely, and no, not at all. But Adelaide is convinced that if she just tries and fights and loves a little harder, he’ll fall for her as deeply as she’s fallen for him. (He has to… right?) Because it’s clear to Adelaide that their fate was written in the stars. Why else would they have attended the same play last fall, or that Yankees game in 2016? Their paths never crossing until just the right moment. Honestly I loved it ALL. It’s been a long time since I’ve read something that I felt could really happen.. romance is my jam but a lot of it leans towards the fantastical. My heart broke for Adelaide. She gave all the bits of herself to love and it wasn’t reciprocated equally. I felt that to my core. You know that Adelaide and Rory’s relationship is doomed from the beginning, and yet the journey is no less heartbreaking. You still dare to hope with Adelaide. Even if the hope is the desperate, clawing type. The writing enchants you in the most intimate way, like you’re reading her diary or a dear friend is recounting the story. And it hurts so good. having the fmc at the age of 26 straight up pee her pants in the streets of London? I mean, I could have done without reading that.

Adelaide is a book for all my sad girls out there who remember that Big Breakup, that all-consuming love and subsequent grief when the person you thought would be The One ended up being The One Who Got Away. It’s all heart sparkly and gauzy surreality. It’s that montage of Meg Ryan smiling and walking down the streets of NYC in You’ve Got Mail while The Cranberries sing “Dreams.” It’s the feeling of Autumn air but with the promise that comes in Spring. All of those things, but while storm clouds gather on the horizon and a hand wraps slowly wraps around your throat. Adelaide meets the Disney prince, beautiful, Rory. He's British, he's handsome, and he's kinda perfect. Except he's flaky as French croissant. Adelaide laughed. After nearly half a decade of celibacy, she had thrown herself into the worlds of dating apps and one-night stands with force and fervor when she was twenty-two—charming strangers in text conversations and sweaty dance halls on a weekly basis. First in New York, now in London.