The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith | Book Review

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Title: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

Author: Jennifer E. Smith

Publishing Details: Published January 2nd 2012 by Poppy

Pages: 236 pages

Format: Kobo e-reader


Summary: Four minutes changes everything. Hadley Sullivan 17 misses her flight at JFK airport, is late to her father’s second wedding in London with never-met stepmother. Hadley meets the perfect boy. Oliver is British, sits in her row. A long night on the plane passes in a blink, but the two lose track in arrival chaos. Can fate bring them together again?


Review:

Airports. Its always the airports where it either starts or ends.
Two teenagers meet at the airport and share an interesting conversation on their way to London. It definitely was insta-love, which is something I detest. But on the other hand, I really liked the characters separately. Each of them had some characteristics and some family issues which just add in to their dynamics.
When both of them face the things they’d wanted to run from, it broke my heart and warmed it all at once.

Hadley and Oliver end up visiting each other in London, after a flury of other events and things end on a happy note. Which seemed too good to be true, but then the entire story was something I can’t possibly picture to be true. Exaggeration was everywhere, and it felt more like a rom-com/tragic movie than a book.

All in all, simple contemporary read with a couple of cliches and travel and family drama.


Rating: 3


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