3.5

Love and Other Train Wrecks

Leah Konen
Book
April
2021

Review:

This was a nice light book but nothing more. It had the same premise as Field Notes on Love, but I don’t think it was as well executed. It was not big enough, and although I liked their romance, it was not my favorite. They seemed a little too similar and related too much to each other. There has to be that tension and misunderstanding that was lacking from this. The backstory of the boy especially was lacking, and the reason why they “broke up” was not very good. This could have been done better with minor changes, but it was still a nice light book.

Trigger Warnings:
Divorce and Relationship trauma

Synopsis From Book:

A twenty-four-hour romance about two teens who meet — and perhaps change their minds about love — on a train ride to Upstate New York in the middle of a snowstorm. One train ride. Two strangers. Noah is a hopeless romantic. He’s heading back home for one last chance with his first love, whom he broke up with when he went off to college. Ammy doesn’t believe in true love—her parents being prime examples. She’s escaping from a mom who can’t take care of her to a dad who may not even want her. That is, until one winter night when Noah and Ammy find themselves in the same Amtrak car heading to Upstate New York. After a train-wreck first encounter between the two of them, the Amtrak train suddenly breaks down due to a snowstorm. Desperate to make it to their destinations, Noah and Ammy have no other option but to travel together. What starts off as a minor detour turns into the whirlwind journey of a lifetime, and over the course of the night they fall in love. But come morning their adventure takes an unexpected turn for the worst. Can one night can really change how they feel about love...and the course of their lives forever?
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