Review by Katherine1998 -- Looking Glass Friends
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Review by Katherine1998 -- Looking Glass Friends
[Following is a volunteer review of "Looking Glass Friends" by E L Neve.]
Looking Glass Friends, by E.L. Neve, is a beautiful love story between two lost souls searching for their counterpart soul mates. Five people, two couples, and an innocent little boy. Ellie and Jake and their son Johnny; Neil and Fay. Ellie, a stay at home mother, would always go to the little bakery shop where Neil works to get sweet treats for her son and one day they ran out of the treats she would get; so, Neil gave her the ones he had set aside for his wife, Fay. In thanks, Ellie gives Neil one of her favorite books and her email address, and thus their relationship begins. They go back and forth between emails, daydreams of each other, and eventually late-night phone call conversations. Through all of this, they find what they've been missing in their lives. They found an intellectual partner, an equal, a friend, a companionship that they both had missing in their marriages. They fell in love with each other's minds before they ever truly had a conversation face to face. Throughout Ellie and Neil's falling into love, Jake and Fay try and fight to keep their spouses for the right and wrong reasons of their own. In the end, Ellie has to choose to stay with Jake for the sake of Johnny's perfect little life or choose to be with Neil for the sake of her aching heart and soul. She follows her heart.
What I liked most about this book is that they fell in love over a book, and it led to their relationship. I like that they fell in love with each other's minds and personalities before they even had to be physical. I do not like the act of cheating on a partner personally, and so I think that all the cheating that happened in the book is what I disliked the most. Every one of the main characters seemed to cheat, except for Fay, who was completely faithful. I also disliked that the Faithful Fay didn't get enough of anything, in my opinion. She was just an innocent victim and couldn't help that she was never and no longer enough for her husband, and that's just sad.
I rate this book a 4 out of 4 stars because the story was amazing and wonderfully written. The story pulled me in, and I couldn't put it down. The book also showed no signs of grammatical errors. This book had a well-developed plot and characters.
The intended audience for this novel would be for an adult audience. This book is not for a younger audience (minors). The book contains small details of sex, and in one instance, one of the main characters almost gets raped. Also, to me, the book pertains to issues that an adult would face. The child in the story is affected by what the adult characters do, but the child character's feelings aren't what is important in the book. Children face the divorce of their parents, but in this book, it's the tangled love situation that is the problem of the story.
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Looking Glass Friends, by E.L. Neve, is a beautiful love story between two lost souls searching for their counterpart soul mates. Five people, two couples, and an innocent little boy. Ellie and Jake and their son Johnny; Neil and Fay. Ellie, a stay at home mother, would always go to the little bakery shop where Neil works to get sweet treats for her son and one day they ran out of the treats she would get; so, Neil gave her the ones he had set aside for his wife, Fay. In thanks, Ellie gives Neil one of her favorite books and her email address, and thus their relationship begins. They go back and forth between emails, daydreams of each other, and eventually late-night phone call conversations. Through all of this, they find what they've been missing in their lives. They found an intellectual partner, an equal, a friend, a companionship that they both had missing in their marriages. They fell in love with each other's minds before they ever truly had a conversation face to face. Throughout Ellie and Neil's falling into love, Jake and Fay try and fight to keep their spouses for the right and wrong reasons of their own. In the end, Ellie has to choose to stay with Jake for the sake of Johnny's perfect little life or choose to be with Neil for the sake of her aching heart and soul. She follows her heart.
What I liked most about this book is that they fell in love over a book, and it led to their relationship. I like that they fell in love with each other's minds and personalities before they even had to be physical. I do not like the act of cheating on a partner personally, and so I think that all the cheating that happened in the book is what I disliked the most. Every one of the main characters seemed to cheat, except for Fay, who was completely faithful. I also disliked that the Faithful Fay didn't get enough of anything, in my opinion. She was just an innocent victim and couldn't help that she was never and no longer enough for her husband, and that's just sad.
I rate this book a 4 out of 4 stars because the story was amazing and wonderfully written. The story pulled me in, and I couldn't put it down. The book also showed no signs of grammatical errors. This book had a well-developed plot and characters.
The intended audience for this novel would be for an adult audience. This book is not for a younger audience (minors). The book contains small details of sex, and in one instance, one of the main characters almost gets raped. Also, to me, the book pertains to issues that an adult would face. The child in the story is affected by what the adult characters do, but the child character's feelings aren't what is important in the book. Children face the divorce of their parents, but in this book, it's the tangled love situation that is the problem of the story.
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Looking Glass Friends
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