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Miss You
Tess and Gus are meant to be. They just haven't met properly yet. And perhaps they never will . . .
Today is the first day of the rest of your life is the motto on a plate in the kitchen at home, and Tess can't get it out of her head, even though she's in Florence for a final, idyllic holiday before university. Her life is about to change forever - but not in the way she expects.
Gus and his parents are also on holiday in Florence. Their lives have already changed suddenly and dramatically. Gus tries to be a dutiful son, but longs to escape and discover what sort of person he is going to be.
For one day, the paths of an eighteen-year-old girl and boy criss-cross before they each return to England.
Over the course of the next sixteen years, life and love will offer them very different challenges. Separated by distance and fate, there's no way the two of them are ever going to meet each other properly . . . or is there?
Today is the first day of the rest of your life is the motto on a plate in the kitchen at home, and Tess can't get it out of her head, even though she's in Florence for a final, idyllic holiday before university. Her life is about to change forever - but not in the way she expects.
Gus and his parents are also on holiday in Florence. Their lives have already changed suddenly and dramatically. Gus tries to be a dutiful son, but longs to escape and discover what sort of person he is going to be.
For one day, the paths of an eighteen-year-old girl and boy criss-cross before they each return to England.
Over the course of the next sixteen years, life and love will offer them very different challenges. Separated by distance and fate, there's no way the two of them are ever going to meet each other properly . . . or is there?
433 pages, Hardcover
First published August 11, 2016
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Kate Eberlen
13 books221 followersKate Eberlen grew up in a small town thirty miles from London and spent her childhood reading books and longing to escape. She studied Classics at Oxford University before working in publishing and as a teacher. Kate now lives on the south coast of England, but spends as much time as she can in Italy, a country she loves. She is married with one son.
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June 14, 2018
Absolutely loved it! I think some books just find a way into your life at the right time and this might be a case of that. Maybe six months from now I wouldn't feel quite the same way but this was just the perfect read for me at the moment. The premise isn't really groundbreaking as it's just a story about two people who meet in Italy and share a brief moment in time but go back to England alone. The book follows their lives for the next 16 years as they experience heartache, love, etc..
On an emotional level I just really connected with the characters, particularly Tess. I had a feeling early on this would be a tear jerker and sure enough it was. This might be a depressing read for some but I couldn't put it down as there is something about following characters over the course of years that just gets me every time. Really loved this one!
I won a free copy of this book from LibraryThing but was under no obligation to post a review. All views expressed are my honest opinion.
On an emotional level I just really connected with the characters, particularly Tess. I had a feeling early on this would be a tear jerker and sure enough it was. This might be a depressing read for some but I couldn't put it down as there is something about following characters over the course of years that just gets me every time. Really loved this one!
I won a free copy of this book from LibraryThing but was under no obligation to post a review. All views expressed are my honest opinion.
April 20, 2018
I'm not really sure if two stars is an okay rating because a) I didn't really read this book properly and b) if I had read it properly and it would have been the right time and stuff, I might have liked it. Maybe.
Edit: changed it to one star :D
OK, so the book is about Tess and Gus, who 'meet' in Italy when they are each on vacation. They both go back to England the next day and their paths separate. In the next 16 years they 'meet' more than once again, but they never really get to know each other.
I think the story itself sounds lovely and it could've been so much better, it's a shame, really.
Let me start at the beginning: It all started off way too sad or depresssed or whatever for my liking. Both Tess and Gus have difficult relatives as in not-so-loving parents (for whatever reasons) or their past is sad and so on. It was not at all happy enough for me. That was quite exhausting. The beginning was also way too slow, the first chapters are about certain months in one year and that was painful to read. Towards the middle and the end of the book it gets a tiny bit better, but that doesn't make up for the immense pain felt in the beginning.
I don't know why, but the style of writing and how that made Tess and Gus appear (especially Gus) made me feel really uncomfortable. I've started a book once where this exact problem was the reason I didn't even try to finish it. And 'Miss You' was just not heart-warming enough. Well, it was not heart-warming at all for that matter. I couldn't really like Tess or Gus or anyone else. There was no warmth at all. Nothing that made me want to relate to them. Nothing. Only exhaustion.
Also, I thought their paths would cross more often. They did, but not often enough. I never really wanted to know how their story continues, because it wasn't 'their' story. I understand that the story wasn't supposed to be about how they meet each other all the time and slowly fall in love or something, but a bit more cuteness or something wouldn't have done any harm.
Now, there will be some spoilers.
The uncomfortable story aside, Tess and Gus were stupid people. First, Gus cheats on his girlfriend of six years about a hundred times with a colleague (who coincidentally is / was his dead brothers' girlfriend). And if that wasn't stupid enough, he tries to find out wether she is joking about marriage or whatever (because he got her pregnant) so he asks her to marry him and she says yes. Okay? Yeah why not ask someone to get married only to clarify some stupid joke / misunderstanding? Sure thing. Okay, stupid enough. But then they actually DO get married and have a second baby. Right. At some point she starts cheating just like he did years ago. What a nice couple!
But Tess is not better. Her boyfriend cheats on her, she is furious etc. but then one day she starts having an affair with a married man. Makes sense. Overall I got the feeling the book only consists of people cheating on each other and beginning new realtionships with people who are older / earn more money than themselves as a result. Not my type of story unfortunately.
I tried. I really tried reading this book. Up until page 148 or so. Then I had to admit defeat. I only scanned the pages for interesting words or sentences from then on but obviously couldn't find any. Such a waste of money (or payback points in my case). I cannot reccomend this book. The story was a pain in the arse.
Maybe I'm too much into this chic lit stuff, but why wouldn't I be? Why read depressing stuff when you can read cute, happy, sometimes cheesy stuff instead? Rubbish.
Edit: changed it to one star :D
OK, so the book is about Tess and Gus, who 'meet' in Italy when they are each on vacation. They both go back to England the next day and their paths separate. In the next 16 years they 'meet' more than once again, but they never really get to know each other.
I think the story itself sounds lovely and it could've been so much better, it's a shame, really.
Let me start at the beginning: It all started off way too sad or depresssed or whatever for my liking. Both Tess and Gus have difficult relatives as in not-so-loving parents (for whatever reasons) or their past is sad and so on. It was not at all happy enough for me. That was quite exhausting. The beginning was also way too slow, the first chapters are about certain months in one year and that was painful to read. Towards the middle and the end of the book it gets a tiny bit better, but that doesn't make up for the immense pain felt in the beginning.
I don't know why, but the style of writing and how that made Tess and Gus appear (especially Gus) made me feel really uncomfortable. I've started a book once where this exact problem was the reason I didn't even try to finish it. And 'Miss You' was just not heart-warming enough. Well, it was not heart-warming at all for that matter. I couldn't really like Tess or Gus or anyone else. There was no warmth at all. Nothing that made me want to relate to them. Nothing. Only exhaustion.
Also, I thought their paths would cross more often. They did, but not often enough. I never really wanted to know how their story continues, because it wasn't 'their' story. I understand that the story wasn't supposed to be about how they meet each other all the time and slowly fall in love or something, but a bit more cuteness or something wouldn't have done any harm.
Now, there will be some spoilers.
The uncomfortable story aside, Tess and Gus were stupid people. First, Gus cheats on his girlfriend of six years about a hundred times with a colleague (who coincidentally is / was his dead brothers' girlfriend). And if that wasn't stupid enough, he tries to find out wether she is joking about marriage or whatever (because he got her pregnant) so he asks her to marry him and she says yes. Okay? Yeah why not ask someone to get married only to clarify some stupid joke / misunderstanding? Sure thing. Okay, stupid enough. But then they actually DO get married and have a second baby. Right. At some point she starts cheating just like he did years ago. What a nice couple!
But Tess is not better. Her boyfriend cheats on her, she is furious etc. but then one day she starts having an affair with a married man. Makes sense. Overall I got the feeling the book only consists of people cheating on each other and beginning new realtionships with people who are older / earn more money than themselves as a result. Not my type of story unfortunately.
I tried. I really tried reading this book. Up until page 148 or so. Then I had to admit defeat. I only scanned the pages for interesting words or sentences from then on but obviously couldn't find any. Such a waste of money (or payback points in my case). I cannot reccomend this book. The story was a pain in the arse.
Maybe I'm too much into this chic lit stuff, but why wouldn't I be? Why read depressing stuff when you can read cute, happy, sometimes cheesy stuff instead? Rubbish.
February 7, 2017
A romance novel with a heart on the cover. Two characters who are meant to be. Alternating first person narratives following them through their lives. Sound familiar and wearingly clichéd? Kate Eberlen might not have made herself immediately appealing to the critic’s eye, but in her novel ‘Miss You’ she has written an interesting, enjoyable and immersive work that is both light and literary, and a gently provocative read.
We’re introduced to the main characters in 1997, when Tess and her best friend Doll are inter-railing in Italy after their A Levels, and bump into a lonely and slightly awkward boy, our other protagonist Gus, away with his parents before he goes to fulfil their dreams at university. Tess however can not head to the big city to study, as following the death of her mother, she is left to bring up her autistic sister Hope, and with it sacrifice her own dreams and wonder what might have been. Things aren’t easy for Gus either, and he lives in the shadow of his handsome, successful and adored older brother Ross, whose death in a ski accident concretes his place as an idol in his parents’ eyes.
Through chapters that alternate between their two stories, both experience grief, betrayal, love, career struggles, and the general yearning to find oneself that life involves – right up until summer 2013. Over the sixteen years, their paths not only echo one another’s, but threaten to intersect – never quite making it.
A book lover, Tess’s early comment that ‘my romantic education had come from novels and all my favourite heroines had to suffer misunderstanding and despair in their pursuit of true love’ confirms what we know – they’ll end up together eventually (spoiler alert!) but the route there is interesting and varied to make the journey engaging. Both characters’ narratives are interesting enough to form novels in their own right, and the characters likeable but flawed. There’s some great twists to the plot – the identity of Gus’s wife surprised me, as did his relationship with Nash, and the changes in Hope’s character.
Description is often vivid, and the emotional or physical landscape illuminated, whether it’s the ‘shimmering palms of iridescence in the night sky’ as Gus’s teenage girlfriend gazes at fireworks, the ‘candyfloss-blossom trees, yellow daffodils, lime-green grass; a paintbox row of houses’ that make up Notting Hill’s Portobello Road, or Gus’s exhaustion as ‘my eyelids jerkily fluttering like the wings of a dying bird.’
The book drawn comparisons to David Nicholls’s super successful One Day, both dealing with the idea of love and fate and written through vignettes over the years, and whilst is certainly not a rip off, will benefit from the popularity of the genre. It’s an easy read, but not fluffy – more accessible and immersive. The trope of fate and serendipity is a well-worn one, but like Gus ponders himself, so much of who we spend time with and the relationships we engage in are a result of circumstance more than anything – and you never know what could have happened if you’d spoken to that person, not this one. ‘We think we choose our friends, but perhaps it’s always a matter of chance.’ The premise might be timeworn, but the book certainly isn’t, dealing with all of the issues of life in a warm, compassionate and honest manner.
Endearing and engaging, it thawed this reader’s hard heart towards romance novels. Thoroughly recommended as the un-guiltiest of guilty pleasures.
Reviewed by Francesca on www.whisperingstories.com
We’re introduced to the main characters in 1997, when Tess and her best friend Doll are inter-railing in Italy after their A Levels, and bump into a lonely and slightly awkward boy, our other protagonist Gus, away with his parents before he goes to fulfil their dreams at university. Tess however can not head to the big city to study, as following the death of her mother, she is left to bring up her autistic sister Hope, and with it sacrifice her own dreams and wonder what might have been. Things aren’t easy for Gus either, and he lives in the shadow of his handsome, successful and adored older brother Ross, whose death in a ski accident concretes his place as an idol in his parents’ eyes.
Through chapters that alternate between their two stories, both experience grief, betrayal, love, career struggles, and the general yearning to find oneself that life involves – right up until summer 2013. Over the sixteen years, their paths not only echo one another’s, but threaten to intersect – never quite making it.
A book lover, Tess’s early comment that ‘my romantic education had come from novels and all my favourite heroines had to suffer misunderstanding and despair in their pursuit of true love’ confirms what we know – they’ll end up together eventually (spoiler alert!) but the route there is interesting and varied to make the journey engaging. Both characters’ narratives are interesting enough to form novels in their own right, and the characters likeable but flawed. There’s some great twists to the plot – the identity of Gus’s wife surprised me, as did his relationship with Nash, and the changes in Hope’s character.
Description is often vivid, and the emotional or physical landscape illuminated, whether it’s the ‘shimmering palms of iridescence in the night sky’ as Gus’s teenage girlfriend gazes at fireworks, the ‘candyfloss-blossom trees, yellow daffodils, lime-green grass; a paintbox row of houses’ that make up Notting Hill’s Portobello Road, or Gus’s exhaustion as ‘my eyelids jerkily fluttering like the wings of a dying bird.’
The book drawn comparisons to David Nicholls’s super successful One Day, both dealing with the idea of love and fate and written through vignettes over the years, and whilst is certainly not a rip off, will benefit from the popularity of the genre. It’s an easy read, but not fluffy – more accessible and immersive. The trope of fate and serendipity is a well-worn one, but like Gus ponders himself, so much of who we spend time with and the relationships we engage in are a result of circumstance more than anything – and you never know what could have happened if you’d spoken to that person, not this one. ‘We think we choose our friends, but perhaps it’s always a matter of chance.’ The premise might be timeworn, but the book certainly isn’t, dealing with all of the issues of life in a warm, compassionate and honest manner.
Endearing and engaging, it thawed this reader’s hard heart towards romance novels. Thoroughly recommended as the un-guiltiest of guilty pleasures.
Reviewed by Francesca on www.whisperingstories.com
September 18, 2017
I had a hard time with this book ...
You see - it has been compared to One Day, a novel that revolved around two people always missing their chance, until they don't but then life gets in the way. A really heart-warming love story that had me in tears at the end.
Miss You is about two people, Tess and Gus, who were both in Florence at the same time ... they were in the same church, they saw one another ... and that's it. They aren't two people who know one another, who are simply being to bull headed to fall in love - they are legitimately two people who don't meet for another 18 years - sure their lives sometimes lead them to the same café (at different times), or run the same route (again at different times) ... but they don't actually meet until the last 50 pages or so. And so I spent the entire time reading wondering (1) when is their chance encounter going to take place and (2) why do I care about two people who's characters kind of bother me.
Neither Tess nor Gus brought much to the table in my estimation - they were both not super happy characters, with a sense of "woe is me" surrounding them. Perhaps this was more of a case of the hype for this book wasn't an accurate description of what I got ... or maybe I just wanted another version of "One Day" and this just really didn't live up to that book.
Not my favourite read of the summer. I also thought it could have been 200 pages shorter than it was.
You see - it has been compared to One Day, a novel that revolved around two people always missing their chance, until they don't but then life gets in the way. A really heart-warming love story that had me in tears at the end.
Miss You is about two people, Tess and Gus, who were both in Florence at the same time ... they were in the same church, they saw one another ... and that's it. They aren't two people who know one another, who are simply being to bull headed to fall in love - they are legitimately two people who don't meet for another 18 years - sure their lives sometimes lead them to the same café (at different times), or run the same route (again at different times) ... but they don't actually meet until the last 50 pages or so. And so I spent the entire time reading wondering (1) when is their chance encounter going to take place and (2) why do I care about two people who's characters kind of bother me.
Neither Tess nor Gus brought much to the table in my estimation - they were both not super happy characters, with a sense of "woe is me" surrounding them. Perhaps this was more of a case of the hype for this book wasn't an accurate description of what I got ... or maybe I just wanted another version of "One Day" and this just really didn't live up to that book.
Not my favourite read of the summer. I also thought it could have been 200 pages shorter than it was.
July 18, 2016
Three things:
1) The book felt a little too much like a confluence of One Day and Love, Rosie, down to the affairs, accidental pregnancies, culinary-inspired careers and Tess's desire to become a writer.
2) Why is it that women in these books are always borderline pathetic? They're always self-sacrificing, giving up careers, having affairs and waiting for rich friends to fix their problems. No, damn it. Go fix your own life. Go look at Gwenyth Paltrow in Sliding Doors and emultate her.
It's not a problem necessarily isolated to Miss You, but I felt it acutely when reading Tess's sections.
3) That ending. I just can't with that ending. What was with that ending? *Face palm*
1) The book felt a little too much like a confluence of One Day and Love, Rosie, down to the affairs, accidental pregnancies, culinary-inspired careers and Tess's desire to become a writer.
2) Why is it that women in these books are always borderline pathetic? They're always self-sacrificing, giving up careers, having affairs and waiting for rich friends to fix their problems. No, damn it. Go fix your own life. Go look at Gwenyth Paltrow in Sliding Doors and emultate her.
It's not a problem necessarily isolated to Miss You, but I felt it acutely when reading Tess's sections.
3) That ending. I just can't with that ending. What was with that ending? *Face palm*
March 14, 2017
"Sinto a tua Falta" tem todas as características do género "chick-lit" e dentro dessa categoria é um dos melhores que tenho lido nos últimos tempos. O enredo parece inspirar-se no livro "Um Dia" de David Nicholls (que chega a ser mencionado a determinada altura. Estamos perante duas vidas que nunca se cruzam e que são narradas em paralelo ao longo dos anos. A história está muito bem estruturada, tendo a autora optado por se focar em temas como a morte, a família, o alcoolismo, o cancro e o síndrome de Asperger. Não são retratadas situações disparatadas ou trágico-cómicas, artifícios que muitas vezes servem para conduzir a protagonista a momentos românticos que alteram totalmente o curso da história.
Recomendo para quem gosta de romances dentro do género ou está à procura de alguma coisa mais "levezinha", mas com algum conteúdo.
Recomendo para quem gosta de romances dentro do género ou está à procura de alguma coisa mais "levezinha", mas com algum conteúdo.
June 30, 2021
4:57 PM EST. A few minutes ago, I finished reading this novel, my eyes brimming with tears. I am now basking in an afterglow of quasi-orgasmic satisfaction, for this was a story that spoke to my heart and mind, captivating me throughout its 433 pages.
The story begins in Florence (Italy) in August 1997. Two young ladies from the UK - friends from childhood - are nearing the end of a summer holiday before each will embark on different paths. Tess, who had recently received her A-levels, has secured a place at University College in London. Her close friend, "Doll" (her full name is Maria Dolores O'Neill), is set to be a beautician. "Doll" is the lively, engaging, vivacious, ballsy sort of friend who is a nice complement to Tess who is deeply sensitive, quietly resilient, a bit naive about some of the ways of the world, with an abiding passion for art and literature.
Then there is 'Gus' (short for Angus) who is also in Florence at the same time. He is with his parents. Together they are the picture of the staid, self-contained English family. Gus is the dutiful son. But inwardly, he is uneasy and anxious given that he will soon be going to London to study medicine, to become more independent and learn who he really is. While exploring the city on his own, Gus has a chance meeting with Tess. It was a fleeting, awkward encounter for both of them - as such meetings between 2 people can be, especially if there is a sudden, mutual attraction.
Sometime later, Tess and Gus meet a third time near the Ponte Vecchio. Gus was standing in line for ice cream when "... I'd felt a tap on my shoulder, and there she was again, smiling as if we'd known each other all our lives and were about to go on some amazing adventure together." Tess then informs him about "this brilliant gelato place just down Via dei Neri where you can get about six for the price of one here!" In response, Gus tells Tess that "I don't think I could manage six!" Ruefully, he then confesses to the reader that "[m]y attempt at wit had come out sounding pompous and dismissive. I wasn't very good at talking to girls." I could totally relate to Gus when you find yourself unexpectedly in the presence of a person who is singularly attractive to you. But you're at a loss for words in a vain attempt to both impress and ingratiate yourself with that person. Opportunity lost. In Gus' case, he "stared at [Tess] like a moron with sentences jostling for position in my head as her smile faded from sparkling to slightly perplexed before she hurried off to catch up with her friend."
Each succeeding chapter follows the paths made by both Gus and Tess over the next 16 years. Gus tells his developing story in one chapter in a given year that is followed by Tess sharing with the reader the ups and downs in which she found herself in that same year. Most of Gus' life is clouded over by the tragic death of his older brother, who is clearly the apple of his parents' eyes. Tess returns home and is soon engulfed by a family tragedy that will seismically alter the trajectory of her life. And yet, through the passing of years, the reader is witness to how chance or Fate may bring together or keep apart 2 people perhaps destined for each other. Example: Gus attends in July 2013 a Rolling Stones concert in Hyde Park (London), where "[a]bout six people in front of me, I noticed a tall woman tracking the ephemeral silvery-white image as it floated over her head, her expression as innocently delighted as a child gazing up at a circus trapeze artist, her lips syncing with the words of the song. Almost as if she had sensed me watching her, our eyes met, her mouth stopped moving and time stood still. Then the butterfly flew away and her face merged back into the darkness."
The ecstacy and the agony. Both Gus and Tess became real people to me the more I read this novel. And as I said earlier, once I read the last sentence, I wanted to cry. But felt embarrassed to do so, though I was alone in my apartment. (I wonder if the author of "MISSING YOU" has received any offers to auction off the rights for a movie adaptation. If so, this novel could be made into a really good movie - provided the mistakes are avoided that bedeviled the movie adaptation of David Nicholls' novel, "One Day".)
Suffice it to say, "MISSING YOU" is a winner.
The story begins in Florence (Italy) in August 1997. Two young ladies from the UK - friends from childhood - are nearing the end of a summer holiday before each will embark on different paths. Tess, who had recently received her A-levels, has secured a place at University College in London. Her close friend, "Doll" (her full name is Maria Dolores O'Neill), is set to be a beautician. "Doll" is the lively, engaging, vivacious, ballsy sort of friend who is a nice complement to Tess who is deeply sensitive, quietly resilient, a bit naive about some of the ways of the world, with an abiding passion for art and literature.
Then there is 'Gus' (short for Angus) who is also in Florence at the same time. He is with his parents. Together they are the picture of the staid, self-contained English family. Gus is the dutiful son. But inwardly, he is uneasy and anxious given that he will soon be going to London to study medicine, to become more independent and learn who he really is. While exploring the city on his own, Gus has a chance meeting with Tess. It was a fleeting, awkward encounter for both of them - as such meetings between 2 people can be, especially if there is a sudden, mutual attraction.
Sometime later, Tess and Gus meet a third time near the Ponte Vecchio. Gus was standing in line for ice cream when "... I'd felt a tap on my shoulder, and there she was again, smiling as if we'd known each other all our lives and were about to go on some amazing adventure together." Tess then informs him about "this brilliant gelato place just down Via dei Neri where you can get about six for the price of one here!" In response, Gus tells Tess that "I don't think I could manage six!" Ruefully, he then confesses to the reader that "[m]y attempt at wit had come out sounding pompous and dismissive. I wasn't very good at talking to girls." I could totally relate to Gus when you find yourself unexpectedly in the presence of a person who is singularly attractive to you. But you're at a loss for words in a vain attempt to both impress and ingratiate yourself with that person. Opportunity lost. In Gus' case, he "stared at [Tess] like a moron with sentences jostling for position in my head as her smile faded from sparkling to slightly perplexed before she hurried off to catch up with her friend."
Each succeeding chapter follows the paths made by both Gus and Tess over the next 16 years. Gus tells his developing story in one chapter in a given year that is followed by Tess sharing with the reader the ups and downs in which she found herself in that same year. Most of Gus' life is clouded over by the tragic death of his older brother, who is clearly the apple of his parents' eyes. Tess returns home and is soon engulfed by a family tragedy that will seismically alter the trajectory of her life. And yet, through the passing of years, the reader is witness to how chance or Fate may bring together or keep apart 2 people perhaps destined for each other. Example: Gus attends in July 2013 a Rolling Stones concert in Hyde Park (London), where "[a]bout six people in front of me, I noticed a tall woman tracking the ephemeral silvery-white image as it floated over her head, her expression as innocently delighted as a child gazing up at a circus trapeze artist, her lips syncing with the words of the song. Almost as if she had sensed me watching her, our eyes met, her mouth stopped moving and time stood still. Then the butterfly flew away and her face merged back into the darkness."
The ecstacy and the agony. Both Gus and Tess became real people to me the more I read this novel. And as I said earlier, once I read the last sentence, I wanted to cry. But felt embarrassed to do so, though I was alone in my apartment. (I wonder if the author of "MISSING YOU" has received any offers to auction off the rights for a movie adaptation. If so, this novel could be made into a really good movie - provided the mistakes are avoided that bedeviled the movie adaptation of David Nicholls' novel, "One Day".)
Suffice it to say, "MISSING YOU" is a winner.
March 25, 2017
Para primeiro livro da autora não está mal...gostei. Achei a 5ª parte um pouco apressada e o final é muito corrido. Achei que fosse mais romântico do que é e para mim o titulo nem se refere à saudade entre os dois protagonistas.
Aborda alguns temas sérios como o cancro, síndrome de Asperger, alcoolismo e o adultério. A minha personagem preferida foi a Hope.
Curiosa para ler mais trabalhos da autora no futuro.
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Claro que aqui o que interessa é perceber se Tess e Gus se vão encontrar outra vez e o que parece muito provável que aconteça - dado que isto é um romance e queremos sempre um final feliz - a autora faz o leitor sofrer um pouco, porque o esperado só acontece mesmo na recta final do livro.
Apesar de ter gostado das personagens, ambas cometem algo que para mim seria impensável perdoar ou estar com alguém assim portanto no fundo acho que ficaram bem um com o outro.
Como já disse, a minha personagem preferida foi a Hope, adorei a miúda com a sua inocência mas também inteligência. Há mais algumas personagens secundárias que acabam por ter um pouco de protagonismo na história como por exemplo a Charlotte ou o Shawn.
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Aborda alguns temas sérios como o cancro, síndrome de Asperger, alcoolismo e o adultério. A minha personagem preferida foi a Hope.
Curiosa para ler mais trabalhos da autora no futuro.
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Claro que aqui o que interessa é perceber se Tess e Gus se vão encontrar outra vez e o que parece muito provável que aconteça - dado que isto é um romance e queremos sempre um final feliz - a autora faz o leitor sofrer um pouco, porque o esperado só acontece mesmo na recta final do livro.
Apesar de ter gostado das personagens, ambas cometem algo que para mim seria impensável perdoar ou estar com alguém assim portanto no fundo acho que ficaram bem um com o outro.
Como já disse, a minha personagem preferida foi a Hope, adorei a miúda com a sua inocência mas também inteligência. Há mais algumas personagens secundárias que acabam por ter um pouco de protagonismo na história como por exemplo a Charlotte ou o Shawn.
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November 6, 2018
This was a weird one for me. I liked the idea of the story, but I don't believe the author has executed it as well as they could have. So much infidelity and just general disloyalty were excessive throughout the entire book. And at the end of it all, we only managed to get a couple of chapters with the two leading character; and to me, it was rushed, and there was zero chemistry and reasoning for them to even end up together.
I know how the author wanted it to be, I could see where she was going with the idea, but by the end of the book it fell flat completely. These two characters saw glimpses of each other about three-four times throughout many years, and only a sentence or two was exchanged between the two people during that time. And then one day, they were conveniently both single, and conveniently in the same spot at the same time yet again. It did not feel like fate, it felt forced. I can see the similarities between these two characters, both in personality and in what they've experienced through life, but I don't feel as though that was enough to make us believe they were destined to be together. Once they were together, it felt unnatural, and I really was not feeling their romance. Again, it just felt rushed, and I was disappointed.
I also had a hard time relating or even liking these characters. I understand we all make mistakes, but some of the choices these two people made were disgraceful. They had no morals what so ever. And the consequences for their actions seemed to be minimal because the author didn't portray their emotion well enough through the situations, and they actually made it seem as if the choices they were making were completely justifiable in some way or another. I was just not impressed.
The only reason I am giving this two stars, is because I actually didn't mind the writing technique, minus a few awkwardly worded sentences. And I feel like the idea was a good one, a romantic one, but just wasn't pulled off successfully.
I know how the author wanted it to be, I could see where she was going with the idea, but by the end of the book it fell flat completely. These two characters saw glimpses of each other about three-four times throughout many years, and only a sentence or two was exchanged between the two people during that time. And then one day, they were conveniently both single, and conveniently in the same spot at the same time yet again. It did not feel like fate, it felt forced. I can see the similarities between these two characters, both in personality and in what they've experienced through life, but I don't feel as though that was enough to make us believe they were destined to be together. Once they were together, it felt unnatural, and I really was not feeling their romance. Again, it just felt rushed, and I was disappointed.
I also had a hard time relating or even liking these characters. I understand we all make mistakes, but some of the choices these two people made were disgraceful. They had no morals what so ever. And the consequences for their actions seemed to be minimal because the author didn't portray their emotion well enough through the situations, and they actually made it seem as if the choices they were making were completely justifiable in some way or another. I was just not impressed.
The only reason I am giving this two stars, is because I actually didn't mind the writing technique, minus a few awkwardly worded sentences. And I feel like the idea was a good one, a romantic one, but just wasn't pulled off successfully.
June 2, 2016
Thank you netgalley for approving my request for this book, although not out til August I had heard great things already. I absolutely loved this book from beginning to end. It is a wonderfully intimate story following two very endearing characters who are unaware of each other. As the chapters progressed I felt more and more engrossed in Tess and Gus's lives, so much so I feel bereft now that I have finished the book. I miss the characters already and feel this book will stay with me for a long time to come.
November 15, 2016
Maybe chick lit is just not for me, or maybe this book was just really bad. I didn't absolutely hate it like other one star books - it was just really, really bad.
[Denne bog er modtaget af Politikens Forlag som anmeldereksemplar. Alle ord og holdninger er mine egne.]
The characters knowingly screw up their own lives time and time again, and frankly it's incredibly annoying. The book is so full of clichés, that even the original elements in the story seem worn out and weary.
I had hoped for a warm and heartfelt story, but instead I was just really annoyed.
[Denne bog er modtaget af Politikens Forlag som anmeldereksemplar. Alle ord og holdninger er mine egne.]
The characters knowingly screw up their own lives time and time again, and frankly it's incredibly annoying. The book is so full of clichés, that even the original elements in the story seem worn out and weary.
I had hoped for a warm and heartfelt story, but instead I was just really annoyed.
February 8, 2017
Que desengañó de libro, lo empece con muchas ganas por la sipnosis pero según va avanzando el libro veo que no tiene nada que ver y me siento defraudada...
Es la historia durante 20 años de dos personas ( con sus penasy alegrías , con una historias muy duras por enfermedades y muertes) pero en ningún momento se conocen y llega el 90% se conocen, se enamoran y se quieren casar?? No se lo ceee nadie ( ni la autora)!
No digo que el libro sea malo ( que no lo es si ves las historias con perspectiva ) pero no tiene nada que ver con la sipnosis y me da rabia como se engaña al lector ....
Es la historia durante 20 años de dos personas ( con sus penasy alegrías , con una historias muy duras por enfermedades y muertes) pero en ningún momento se conocen y llega el 90% se conocen, se enamoran y se quieren casar?? No se lo ceee nadie ( ni la autora)!
No digo que el libro sea malo ( que no lo es si ves las historias con perspectiva ) pero no tiene nada que ver con la sipnosis y me da rabia como se engaña al lector ....
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 28, 2017
Destino...
Será que quando nascemos já temos um destino traçado?ou somos nós que construímos esse destino??
Quando estava a meio desta leitura, foi estas as perguntas que me questionei?
Isto porque a minha mãe tem sempre a conversa de.... "nós quando nascemos já temos o nosso destino traçado, se ele o quis assim temos que o aceitar e saber viver com ele".
Tenho sempre a resposta "mãe, o destino somos nós que o construímos no nosso dia a dia".
Depois de ler este livro, começo a pensar se a minha mãe não terá razão??
Gostei bastante deste livro, principalmente pela sua fluidez. Agarrou-me tão bem no início que fiquei completamente obcecada.
Este livro recordou-me o filme "Um dia" por causa da relação entre o Gus e a Tess. Infelizmente o final do filme acabou de uma forma trágica, por aqui acabou tudo perfeito.
Gostei que a escritora tenha aprofundado a doença que se estava abater num membro da família da Tess.
Fiquei com pena do final ter sido tão pequenino, mas o livro não merece levar tão poucas estrelas por causa de um final.
Será que quando nascemos já temos um destino traçado?ou somos nós que construímos esse destino??
Quando estava a meio desta leitura, foi estas as perguntas que me questionei?
Isto porque a minha mãe tem sempre a conversa de.... "nós quando nascemos já temos o nosso destino traçado, se ele o quis assim temos que o aceitar e saber viver com ele".
Tenho sempre a resposta "mãe, o destino somos nós que o construímos no nosso dia a dia".
Depois de ler este livro, começo a pensar se a minha mãe não terá razão??
Gostei bastante deste livro, principalmente pela sua fluidez. Agarrou-me tão bem no início que fiquei completamente obcecada.
Este livro recordou-me o filme "Um dia" por causa da relação entre o Gus e a Tess. Infelizmente o final do filme acabou de uma forma trágica, por aqui acabou tudo perfeito.
Gostei que a escritora tenha aprofundado a doença que se estava abater num membro da família da Tess.
Fiquei com pena do final ter sido tão pequenino, mas o livro não merece levar tão poucas estrelas por causa de um final.
April 4, 2017
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April 25, 2017
MISS YOU is a story of missed connections about two people who are perfect for each other but never meet over the course of fifteen years.
Tess and Gus first meet briefly in Florence as teenagers—she while on holiday with her best friend, Doll and he while on a trip with his parents who are still grieving after losing his older brother in a skiing accident. Over the next several years, both of their lives take them on journeys neither of them saw coming. Serendipitously, they almost meet again several times over many years.
For much of the novel both Tess and Gus struggle with their own identity. After losing his brother (his parent's favorite son), he doesn't want to disappoint them and enrolls in university to study medicine, all the while knowing that medicine isn't the calling of his heart. Meanwhile, Tess's plans of studying English and writing are scrapped when tragedy strikes her family and she chooses to take care of her little sister.
What this book does well is crafting two likable but flawed characters. Gus and Tess make choices along the way with which the reader may not always agree. But these seemingly poor choices take the characters on paths that bring them close to meeting but never quite do, something that can be tortuously frustrating for the reader. This novel deeply explores the idea of fate and how people come into our lives for a reason. The tension between autonomy, destiny, and fate is something that is perhaps a bit controversial but leaves room for a lot of discussion.
When I read the synopsis over a year ago (prior to the U.K. publication even), I was immediately taken by the whole "missed connection" premise. I've read a missed connection type of romance before that didn't really work because the novel leaned too much on its premise and not enough on character development. I felt like this novel had really great character development, since the two characters are living completely separate lives, but still felt like it suffered from far too many coincidences.
This book is being marketed mostly as a romance. If you read the synopsis, you might think this a romance novel. I think it fits more in the women's fiction category that it does for romance because the romance between Tess and Gus is so short in page count.
The whole novel builds to the two finally meeting, but the romance part of the novel seemed like an afterthought. Maybe if Tess and Gus had actually had a moment as teenagers to hold on to and carry their love story for nearly 400 more pages it would have worked. But here, the reader is given just a couple passing conversations with no romantic substance (or even the promise of one) and then we go on to learn about these two people separately, who go though similar journeys. When Tess and Gus meet up again, the intense romantic connection we are asked to immediately believe in felt stale and far too rushed.
If I had to rate the book as a romance, I would probably only give it 2 stars. But looking at the novel as a whole and ignoring the frustrating and short-lived love story we were given, I really liked reading about Gus and Tess's separate lives.
Audiobook Comments:
I really enjoyed Anna Acton and Finlay Robertson's performances. They really brought Tess and Gus's characters to life. I really enjoyed both of the narrators and would recommend this audiobook.
Since I had both the ebook and the audiobook, I did notice a few discrepancies between the two versions. This book is penned by an English author, so there are some British expressions left in the audiobook that had been changed for the North American version. This wasn't a big deal but I felt that it was important to point out in case this bothered you.
* Thank you to Harper audio and Harper books for providing me with an early copy for review.
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March 30, 2020
When picking up this book I also thought like many others it would be like David Nicholls One Day (I loved that book). I also wondered if it would be a little long at first but once I got into it, this book could never be long enough to know enough about all the characters. This book however deserves it's own praise for being a fabulous piece of storytelling that is different to One Day.
It was different, which I liked the two main love interests didn't meet properly until quite near the end. I don't think I'd have quite buyed into them at the beginning to get together, to me it was better coming later on. I like the side characters of both Tess and Gus's family and friends. Gus constantly thinking he's the least popular brother and Tess's struggles with Hope. Tess and Gus deserve as much praise as each other for keeping my interest, I didn't want to read more about one person than the other which often happens to me. I liked both of them and liked how they were very different. Tess I found myself thinking what she'd say before even reading it. I have to love a character that thinks like me. Going through the years I never got bored of what was coming. I loved the settings of London, Italy and New York just the description of travel you need when in Lockdown.
Okay, I liked One Day a little more but this book was brilliant in it's own style.
4.5 Stars
It was different, which I liked the two main love interests didn't meet properly until quite near the end. I don't think I'd have quite buyed into them at the beginning to get together, to me it was better coming later on. I like the side characters of both Tess and Gus's family and friends. Gus constantly thinking he's the least popular brother and Tess's struggles with Hope. Tess and Gus deserve as much praise as each other for keeping my interest, I didn't want to read more about one person than the other which often happens to me. I liked both of them and liked how they were very different. Tess I found myself thinking what she'd say before even reading it. I have to love a character that thinks like me. Going through the years I never got bored of what was coming. I loved the settings of London, Italy and New York just the description of travel you need when in Lockdown.
Okay, I liked One Day a little more but this book was brilliant in it's own style.
4.5 Stars
September 10, 2016
An "Miss You" scheiden sich ja derzeit die Geister, denn die einen lieben dieses Buch, die anderen hegen eher eine Abneigung. Da ich mal wieder neugierig war, wollte ich dem Buch trotz kleinerer Skepsis eine Chance geben und habe es fast in einem Rutsch gelesen.
Nun, in einem Rutsch durchlesen klingt ja eigentlich zunächst positiv, denn dies ist immerhin ein Zeichen dafür, dass sich die Geschichte leicht und schnell lesen lässt. Dennoch besitzt die Geschichte aber auch einige Schwächen, sodass ich ehrlich gesagt auch nach dem Lesen noch nicht so richtig weiß, was ich von der Geschichte halten soll.
Auf der einen Seite fand ich die Liebesgeschichte in diesem Buch wirklich schön, allerdings war es mir insgesamt zu viel Drama und die Steine, die einem immer wieder in den Weg gelegt werden, zu künstlich aufgebaut. Da reicht es nicht, dass Tess und Gus einen Schicksalsschlag hinnehmen müssen, sondern es muss gleich gefühlt eine ganze LKW-Ladung sein. So muss sich Tess gleich mit mehreren Problemen auseinandersetzen, die alle aufeinander aufbauen, denn nicht nur ihre geliebte Mutter ist gestorben und ihr Vater schwer alkoholkrank, sondern sie hat auch noch eine autistische Schwester, sodass quasi alles an ihr hängen bleibt und sie sich um sie kümmern muss.
An sich hat die Autorin die Geschichte gut erzählt, aber mir persönlich waren das zu viele Probleme und zu viele Momente, die die Figuren beeinflusst haben. So bekommt man zwar den Eindruck, dass sich die Figuren, allen voran Tess, stets weiterentwickeln, allerdings hätte ich mir eine leichtere und unbeschwertere Geschichte gewünscht.
Das Cover ist schlicht, aber dennoch durchaus schön anzusehen und passt für mich hervorragend zur Geschichte. Die Kurzbeschreibung verrät in diesem Fall nicht allzu viel, sodass man nicht genau weiß, was hier einen erwartet und man sich somit überraschen lassen muss, was ich jedoch vollkommen in Ordnung finde.
Kurz gesagt: "Miss You" ist an sich eine hochemotionale Geschichte mit interessanten Figuren, allerdings gab es mir hier auch zu viel Drama und zu viele Probleme, sodass man sich als Leser schon fast von all den Sorgen erschlagen fühlt. Hier wäre weniger weitaus mehr gewesen, sodass ich die Geschichte zwar an sich ganz nett fand, sie mich allerdings nicht vollends überzeugen konnte, was ich ein wenig schade finde.
Nun, in einem Rutsch durchlesen klingt ja eigentlich zunächst positiv, denn dies ist immerhin ein Zeichen dafür, dass sich die Geschichte leicht und schnell lesen lässt. Dennoch besitzt die Geschichte aber auch einige Schwächen, sodass ich ehrlich gesagt auch nach dem Lesen noch nicht so richtig weiß, was ich von der Geschichte halten soll.
Auf der einen Seite fand ich die Liebesgeschichte in diesem Buch wirklich schön, allerdings war es mir insgesamt zu viel Drama und die Steine, die einem immer wieder in den Weg gelegt werden, zu künstlich aufgebaut. Da reicht es nicht, dass Tess und Gus einen Schicksalsschlag hinnehmen müssen, sondern es muss gleich gefühlt eine ganze LKW-Ladung sein. So muss sich Tess gleich mit mehreren Problemen auseinandersetzen, die alle aufeinander aufbauen, denn nicht nur ihre geliebte Mutter ist gestorben und ihr Vater schwer alkoholkrank, sondern sie hat auch noch eine autistische Schwester, sodass quasi alles an ihr hängen bleibt und sie sich um sie kümmern muss.
An sich hat die Autorin die Geschichte gut erzählt, aber mir persönlich waren das zu viele Probleme und zu viele Momente, die die Figuren beeinflusst haben. So bekommt man zwar den Eindruck, dass sich die Figuren, allen voran Tess, stets weiterentwickeln, allerdings hätte ich mir eine leichtere und unbeschwertere Geschichte gewünscht.
Das Cover ist schlicht, aber dennoch durchaus schön anzusehen und passt für mich hervorragend zur Geschichte. Die Kurzbeschreibung verrät in diesem Fall nicht allzu viel, sodass man nicht genau weiß, was hier einen erwartet und man sich somit überraschen lassen muss, was ich jedoch vollkommen in Ordnung finde.
Kurz gesagt: "Miss You" ist an sich eine hochemotionale Geschichte mit interessanten Figuren, allerdings gab es mir hier auch zu viel Drama und zu viele Probleme, sodass man sich als Leser schon fast von all den Sorgen erschlagen fühlt. Hier wäre weniger weitaus mehr gewesen, sodass ich die Geschichte zwar an sich ganz nett fand, sie mich allerdings nicht vollends überzeugen konnte, was ich ein wenig schade finde.
February 21, 2017
The best way to enjoy this novel is to avoid reading the blurb and go into it with no expectations about the plot. It is a thoroughly engaging saga about two people and the directions their lives take over the years on the path to maturity. Both Tess and Gus are intricately drawn characters who feel and act so realistically that readers will likely miss them once the book is complete. Once the reader gets into the rhythm of the story, the tale is difficult to put down until the conclusion.
Tess and her best friend Doll celebrate the summer before entering university with a trip to Florence. Gus is also in Florence with his parents, trying to piece his life back together after a tragedy before he heads off to medical school. Tess and Gus meet briefly, but go on to live, grow and make choices in their lives over the next decades. Both suffer bumps and bruises, triumphs and joys, all the while looking for a love that seems to be just out of reach.
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Tess and her best friend Doll celebrate the summer before entering university with a trip to Florence. Gus is also in Florence with his parents, trying to piece his life back together after a tragedy before he heads off to medical school. Tess and Gus meet briefly, but go on to live, grow and make choices in their lives over the next decades. Both suffer bumps and bruises, triumphs and joys, all the while looking for a love that seems to be just out of reach.
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January 1, 2018
Adorei, está nas minhas leituras de preferidos 2017.
Um livro que não "fala" apenas de amor e romance. Ele saltita por temas tão importantes como a morte, o alcoolismo, famílias pouco estruturadas, relações de pais e filhos, de irmãos, de doenças como o Cancro e o Síndroma de Asperger.
Uma leitura que nos toca no coração de um modo especial, viajamos um pouco pela Inglaterra e por Itália e sempre aprendendo que nas coisas mais simples poderemos encontrar a felicidade!
:)
Um livro que não "fala" apenas de amor e romance. Ele saltita por temas tão importantes como a morte, o alcoolismo, famílias pouco estruturadas, relações de pais e filhos, de irmãos, de doenças como o Cancro e o Síndroma de Asperger.
Uma leitura que nos toca no coração de um modo especial, viajamos um pouco pela Inglaterra e por Itália e sempre aprendendo que nas coisas mais simples poderemos encontrar a felicidade!
:)
October 28, 2017
This book made me so happy and so sad at the same time, and I absolutely loved it! I highly recommend it.
April 17, 2025
Bought this for the cute cover (and it was only $2) thinking it was a romance and it really wasn’t that at all. First off, there’s a few things that initially are not favourable. It feels long and that’s because the pacing is slow. It takes place over the course of sixteen years adding to it feeling long. The cover gives light and airy romantic vibes and it’s definitely not light, nor airy. It’s got some very heavy themes. The couple meet and then continue their lives apart for the majority of the book. And they struggle. It’s sad. But the narrative is less about the romance and more about the journey each of them take to place them at just the right point to be perfect for each other. It’s really about the journey and not the destination but the destination was lovely and very satisfying in the end. Also, loved how the author wrote of Florence. Would love to visit if I were richer and less terrified of flying 😁
February 25, 2023
9/10
No pensaba que este libro me fuese a gustar tanto. Lo tenía varios años esperando y no me llamaba demasiado la atención. Pensaba que iba a ser una historia más superficial y romántica. Las historias paralelas de los dos protagonistas me han enganchado mucho y, aunque parece una historia de amor, ese tema es muy secundario. A pesar de que es una historia que se lee de forma rapida, está bastante bien escrita.
No pensaba que este libro me fuese a gustar tanto. Lo tenía varios años esperando y no me llamaba demasiado la atención. Pensaba que iba a ser una historia más superficial y romántica. Las historias paralelas de los dos protagonistas me han enganchado mucho y, aunque parece una historia de amor, ese tema es muy secundario. A pesar de que es una historia que se lee de forma rapida, está bastante bien escrita.
April 14, 2017
In "Miss You," Kate Eberlen explores the idea of whether or not there is a person for everyone, a person that matches them so well that any other relationship will pale in comparison. Are our relationships fate or happenstance? We meet Gus and Tess in this book and the readers can see that they would be perfect for each other. They don't know each other and they will spend the entire book crossing paths but not knowing each other. Will true love be found?
I don't necessarily believe in fate when it comes to relationships. I believe that there can be a lot of different combinations in the world that work. Being very happily married to a guy where it feels like we are such a team and we are sooo on the same wavelength, I can easily see how one could believe in fate intervening and leading you to your perfect person. I loved exploring this in this book. I thought that it was really cool how the author shows us both Gus' and Tess' lives and how they keep crossing paths. At first they don't realize that this is happening. I loved that readers got to be in on this secret. It pulled me in a little more!
Throughout the book and Gus and Tess crossing paths over and over again, you find yourself wondering if this will be the time that Gus and Tess realize that they should be together. The author keeps you guessing. I like that love doesn't come easy in this book; it's worth the fight and the main characters realize this and they keep going.
This is the kind of book that you want to get lost in. This is a book for those that believe in the truth that love brings. I loved these characters and would love to see what else Eberlen comes up with!
I don't necessarily believe in fate when it comes to relationships. I believe that there can be a lot of different combinations in the world that work. Being very happily married to a guy where it feels like we are such a team and we are sooo on the same wavelength, I can easily see how one could believe in fate intervening and leading you to your perfect person. I loved exploring this in this book. I thought that it was really cool how the author shows us both Gus' and Tess' lives and how they keep crossing paths. At first they don't realize that this is happening. I loved that readers got to be in on this secret. It pulled me in a little more!
Throughout the book and Gus and Tess crossing paths over and over again, you find yourself wondering if this will be the time that Gus and Tess realize that they should be together. The author keeps you guessing. I like that love doesn't come easy in this book; it's worth the fight and the main characters realize this and they keep going.
This is the kind of book that you want to get lost in. This is a book for those that believe in the truth that love brings. I loved these characters and would love to see what else Eberlen comes up with!
December 8, 2019
Страшно съм доволна , че тази книга стига до нас , независимо от голямото закъснение.
Първо си помислих , че става дума за някаква тинейджърска история. За малко да не си я купя.
Не можех да се отплепя от нея в малкото минути свободно време на ден.
Предизвика много и различни чувства и мисли в мен. Едновременно на места ме вбеси, натъжи, но и ми вдъхна надежда.
Харесва ми този начин на писане , човешки, реален , без излишни фанфари и пудра.
Истинско удоволствие е винаги , когато откривам нов/ за мен /и толкова добър автор.
Първо си помислих , че става дума за някаква тинейджърска история. За малко да не си я купя.
Не можех да се отплепя от нея в малкото минути свободно време на ден.
Предизвика много и различни чувства и мисли в мен. Едновременно на места ме вбеси, натъжи, но и ми вдъхна надежда.
Харесва ми този начин на писане , човешки, реален , без излишни фанфари и пудра.
Истинско удоволствие е винаги , когато откривам нов/ за мен /и толкова добър автор.
February 18, 2017
Las vidas de Tess y de Gus se cruzan en Florencia y tienen que pasar casi dos décadas hasta que se vuelvan a encontrar y entre ellos surja el verdadero amor.
Quería probar algo distinto y dejar un poco de lado las típicas novelas de romance que suelo leer y creí que esta cumpliría mis expectativas y que sería buena, más que nada por lo que se decía en la portada pero… la verdad es que tanto esperar para nada. Os voy a ser sincera y desde ya os digo que la famosa historia de amor se desarrolla al final, vamos, en aproximadamente unas diez páginas. A lo mejor es un spoiler pero es para que sepáis lo que os vais a encontrar. Me parece perfecto que la autora nos quiera mostrar lo que es el destino, que hay almas que están destinadas a encontrarse, pero el tiro le ha salido por la culata al hacer lo que ha hecho. No se nos puede tener casi setecientas páginas pasando por lo que pasamos con los personajes principales, para en definitiva un final que sabe a poco, muy poco. Me ha defraudado. Esperaba más de esta historia.
Los personajes tienen tela pero me ha parecido que la historia es muy real, a esto no le quito mérito exceptuando ese final para mí de ciencia ficción. Demasiado rápido y poco creíble pues.
Tengo que apreciar enormemente a Tess, es una chica a la que no le pueden dar más palos siendo tan buena, matándose por los demás, apartando su vida y que encima no se lo agradezcan.
Gus quizás es el que mejor lo pasa pese a que él tiene lo suyo, comparado con Tess su vida es de color de rosa, lo normal.
Los personajes secundarios dotan de realidad a la historia y la dotan de realismo con situaciones nada inverosímiles. De la pareja principal no puedo decir mucho puesto que su relación fue un visto y no visto.
En resumen, esta novela tiene los ingredientes necesarios para funcionar pero un buen potaje no se puede cocinar en olla rápida, necesita cocerse a fuego lento, pues esto es lo mismo. Esa supuesta unión de almas no puede surgir de dos frases en encuentros anteriores, es para mí poco creíble y menos ese amor exprés, mucho menos sin habernos dado algo antes.
Quería probar algo distinto y dejar un poco de lado las típicas novelas de romance que suelo leer y creí que esta cumpliría mis expectativas y que sería buena, más que nada por lo que se decía en la portada pero… la verdad es que tanto esperar para nada. Os voy a ser sincera y desde ya os digo que la famosa historia de amor se desarrolla al final, vamos, en aproximadamente unas diez páginas. A lo mejor es un spoiler pero es para que sepáis lo que os vais a encontrar. Me parece perfecto que la autora nos quiera mostrar lo que es el destino, que hay almas que están destinadas a encontrarse, pero el tiro le ha salido por la culata al hacer lo que ha hecho. No se nos puede tener casi setecientas páginas pasando por lo que pasamos con los personajes principales, para en definitiva un final que sabe a poco, muy poco. Me ha defraudado. Esperaba más de esta historia.
Los personajes tienen tela pero me ha parecido que la historia es muy real, a esto no le quito mérito exceptuando ese final para mí de ciencia ficción. Demasiado rápido y poco creíble pues.
Tengo que apreciar enormemente a Tess, es una chica a la que no le pueden dar más palos siendo tan buena, matándose por los demás, apartando su vida y que encima no se lo agradezcan.
Gus quizás es el que mejor lo pasa pese a que él tiene lo suyo, comparado con Tess su vida es de color de rosa, lo normal.
Los personajes secundarios dotan de realidad a la historia y la dotan de realismo con situaciones nada inverosímiles. De la pareja principal no puedo decir mucho puesto que su relación fue un visto y no visto.
En resumen, esta novela tiene los ingredientes necesarios para funcionar pero un buen potaje no se puede cocinar en olla rápida, necesita cocerse a fuego lento, pues esto es lo mismo. Esa supuesta unión de almas no puede surgir de dos frases en encuentros anteriores, es para mí poco creíble y menos ese amor exprés, mucho menos sin habernos dado algo antes.
August 27, 2016
Regular readers of my reviews will be shocked that I read this book... which probably can be classified as 'romance'. Indeed, it reminded me of my Maeve Binchy-loving days as it was a little saga-like and not necessarily in a bad way.
Tess and Gus meet but barely when they're 18 and just out of school. It's not particularly memorable but both seem to sense something in the other... a connection of sorts - recognising a kindred spirit perhaps.
Their lives move on, though because we're following both we're privy to the near-misses and could-have-beens. They both end up in relationships... good and bad, and the years pass. Before they inevitably meet. (Sorry if that's spoiler-like but I figure the book wouldn't exist if they'd never met).
Their lives do not turn out as expected, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. And we're left wondering if they are (in fact) as they were meant to be - ie. we might come out the other end stronger or as better people, having survived the unexpected crap.
This was a long book compared to most I read but the pace was steady, our two lead characters eminently likeable, and the plot captivating - so a very enjoyable read from this debut author!
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3.5 stars
Tess and Gus meet but barely when they're 18 and just out of school. It's not particularly memorable but both seem to sense something in the other... a connection of sorts - recognising a kindred spirit perhaps.
Their lives move on, though because we're following both we're privy to the near-misses and could-have-beens. They both end up in relationships... good and bad, and the years pass. Before they inevitably meet. (Sorry if that's spoiler-like but I figure the book wouldn't exist if they'd never met).
Their lives do not turn out as expected, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. And we're left wondering if they are (in fact) as they were meant to be - ie. we might come out the other end stronger or as better people, having survived the unexpected crap.
This was a long book compared to most I read but the pace was steady, our two lead characters eminently likeable, and the plot captivating - so a very enjoyable read from this debut author!
Read the full review on my blog: http://www.debbish.com/books-literatu...
3.5 stars
October 7, 2016
2.5
Der Klappentext hebt die außergewöhnliche Liebesgeschichte zwischen Tess und Gus vor, denn die beiden laufen sich immer mal wieder auf den Weg, aber es dauert bis zu sie zusammenfinden. Ich habe von Miss you eine berührende und romantische Liebesgeschichte erwartet, leider wurden meine Erwartungen nicht erfüllt.
Die Liebesgeschichte kommt in diesem Buch viel zu kurz. Mehr Details hierzu würden die Geschichte jedoch spoilern. Dieses Buch ist für mich nicht wirklich eine Liebesgeschichte und diese hat mir im Verlaufe des Buches definitiv gefehlt.
Die Lebensgeschichten von Gus und Tess konnte mich zwar größtenteils unterhalten, aber auf Dauer wurde es manchmal auch etwas langweilig.
Besonders enttäuscht hat mich das Ende des Buches, denn da wurde auf einmal alles ratfatz abgehandelt und es bleiben noch einige Fragen offen.
Die Grundidee der Geschichte und auch der Schreibstil der Autorin haben mir jedoch gut gefallen. Das Buch war flüssig und sehr schnell zu lesen.
Der Klappentext hebt die außergewöhnliche Liebesgeschichte zwischen Tess und Gus vor, denn die beiden laufen sich immer mal wieder auf den Weg, aber es dauert bis zu sie zusammenfinden. Ich habe von Miss you eine berührende und romantische Liebesgeschichte erwartet, leider wurden meine Erwartungen nicht erfüllt.
Die Liebesgeschichte kommt in diesem Buch viel zu kurz. Mehr Details hierzu würden die Geschichte jedoch spoilern. Dieses Buch ist für mich nicht wirklich eine Liebesgeschichte und diese hat mir im Verlaufe des Buches definitiv gefehlt.
Die Lebensgeschichten von Gus und Tess konnte mich zwar größtenteils unterhalten, aber auf Dauer wurde es manchmal auch etwas langweilig.
Besonders enttäuscht hat mich das Ende des Buches, denn da wurde auf einmal alles ratfatz abgehandelt und es bleiben noch einige Fragen offen.
Die Grundidee der Geschichte und auch der Schreibstil der Autorin haben mir jedoch gut gefallen. Das Buch war flüssig und sehr schnell zu lesen.
December 29, 2016
Beginning in August 1997, Miss You follows the lives of Tess and Gus. In 1997, they are both 18 years old and about to go to university following holidays in Italy. However, life is never as simple or straightforward as you expect. Gus does begin his medical degree but Tess finds herself at home, taking care of her 5 year old sister following the death of her mother. Tess and Gus found their paths crossing very briefly in Italy, they should have met at university and there are fleeting encounters and near misses over the years. Will they ever meet each other? The more I read this book, the more I became invested in their lives - believable characters and believable scenarios. I loved it - a fantastic debut!
August 12, 2017
Ugh!!! The last 35 pages were the best of the book and I only finished it because I bought it outright and paid too much for it to discard. I am so mad at myself for not checking Goodreads reviews before the purchase.
I hated this book and the only thing that gave me pleasure was the infidelities that occurred to keep it somewhat interesting. I can't believe I am even saying that but, Geez it was just so damn depressing to read.
Why did the authour have to s*** all over the Tess' life and make it so hard to endure? And Gus became more spineless as time went on.
I hated this book and the only thing that gave me pleasure was the infidelities that occurred to keep it somewhat interesting. I can't believe I am even saying that but, Geez it was just so damn depressing to read.
Why did the authour have to s*** all over the Tess' life and make it so hard to endure? And Gus became more spineless as time went on.
June 30, 2017
Don't like it. Don't recommend it. Enough said.
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