Love Triangle

by Lorna Read

All her life, Sophie's known the Cassell brothers - after all they are the boys next door. But suddenly, Sophie's life has become very, very complicated. Because she's just fallen madly, deeply in love with Adrian Cassell and lan Cassell seems to have fallen for her. Can Sophie persuade Ade she's the woman of his dreams, without hurting lan?

200 pages, Paperback

First published February 16, 1996

Reviews

[Sarah Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, but fairly predictable.

* Sophie has decided that she's fallen in love with the eldest son of her next-door neighbour. Adrian is 19 and she thinks he's gorgeous. The only issue is her best friend is also his sister, and she finds it hard to talk to her about him.
* Sophie starts going out with Adrian, but he's unreliable, and only wants to take her out last minute. Her best friend and brother both warn her what he's like but she doesn't listen.
* Sophie drunkenly tells Adrian that she loves him and he turns cold towards her very quickly. She then sees him kissing another woman in a club.
* Adrian's younger brother Ian then saves Sophie when she's in a cafe and her purse has been stolen. He gives her a poem that he wrote confessing his love for her.
* Sophie decides that actually she loves Ian not Adrian Nd so eventually tells him and they kiss.
* Oh, and it turns out that the best friend is dating Sophie's brother Richard and they weren't sure how to tell her 😂

[Pip Clark · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's not really a love triangle but it was funny to read. Highlight was when the main character learns what tapas is: a mexican buffet, and then she learns that wasn't tapas at all

[Sarah Waldron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Full disclosure; I picked up this book to fulfil a prompt for a reading challenge; read a book you read more than ten years ago. I decided to trump ten years and went closer to twenty. I was obsessed with Point Romance and Point Horror when I was a kid and I'm pretty certain I loaned all of them about three times over from the library. I've been thinking for a while how cool it would be to get my hands on some of them now, so this challenge was the perfect impetus.

I couldn't stop giggling through this book as I was constantly imagining young me reading it and genuinely feeling all of the angst and romance. Reading it as an adult, I'll be brutally honest and admit that it was nearing ridiculous. I still enjoyed it all the same, purely for the nostalgic vibes.

There was such a clear difference between YA books from the 90s and those that are written now. I'm pretty certain that fifteen year olds going to clubs, getting drunk. dancing with nineteen year olds and their parents not batting an eyelid wouldn't find its way into a YA book nowadays. However I was sure to read this with the time and context in mind and it was such a delightful throwback to my youth. Catch me on eBay trying to get hold of some other books from the Point Romance and Point Horror collection.