Author: Tarryn Fisher
Genre: Romance, Contemporary
Rating: 5 STARS!!!
“We were both on the search for something true at the same time. Sometimes a person’s truth is another person’s love.”
Fuck Love is a game changer for me. This novel is out of this world amazing. I sat through reading this novel thinking "OMG, HOW AM I ALLOWED TO BE PART OF THIS?" The story line is so authentic and so heartbreaking beautiful, I spent most of this novel in tears (but happy and sad). There are just stories that INSTANTLY click with you and this was it. From the first word in, I was hooked. Tarryn Fisher became my drug dealer and her books are my drugs!!!!
"...Being Single. It’s freedom and loneliness, exhilaration and inner calm. It’s the best high and the worst low.”
Have you ever had a dream that just changed everything? That alters everything you knew about yourself and your future? Well, Helena did! And from the moment it happened, her world changed. It was the sort of dream that made you question all the decisions that bring you to a certain point in life. Helena decides the dream is a wake up call to start living her authentic self and being the person she was supposed to be! She is a crazy, weird, bubbly, contemplative character and one of the best characters I have read so far. Most importantly, she is trying to find herself and accept herself.
"I don’t want to be someone’s ‘girl who got away.’ I want to be someone’s ‘girl who’d I’d never let get away.'"
Kit Isley is equally charming, honest, and compassionate. Their story gives me the chills even thinking about it now! :D They meet in college where they are both at different stages in their lives and have different commitments (cough cough). They spend a majority of the novel not knowing each other too well. Their friendship begins to grow and so does their trust.
Because I’m not brave enough to change with everyone watching me.I’m scared of what they’ll really think of me. If I embrace who I know I am.
Fuck Love does have some romance, but saying it is a romance love diminishes ( just had a economics exam, mind my econ terms) its complexity and depth. I loved it with all my heart! What makes a great romance novel is incorporating all these other factors, such as friendship, family, truth and acceptance, into one cohesive evolving element. It was no overly-dramatic or angsty, it was a great balance between romance and a coming of age/a search for the truth.
What does it feel like? I ask myself. Like cold air in your lungs after too much warm air. Maybe this is how you feel when you find your place in the world.
And, it is weird to say, but I don't think I will read it ever again! It was/is powerful as it is.
“Okay, but I’m trying to find myself.”
Greer grins. “That, my dear, is the scariest thing you’re ever going to do.”
“Why is that?”
“Because you might not like what you find.”
Please read this! :D
Trying to walk away from something you love is like trying to drown yourself. You want to, but it’s unnatural to not crave air. Your body demands it; your mind says you need it. Eventually you break to the surface, gasping and unable to deny yourself that basic need of air. Of love. Of fierce desire.
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