{"id":7889,"date":"2024-07-03T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/?p=7889"},"modified":"2024-08-14T16:01:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T23:01:48","slug":"one-true-loves-teen-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2024\/one-true-loves-teen-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"One True Loves &#8211; Teen Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Jasmine Sov<\/span>, age 18<\/p>\n<h2><strong><em><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">One True Loves<\/span> <\/em>by <span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Elise Bryant<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Lenore Bennett is staring her future in the face. Though she\u2019s committed to NYU, she\u2019s still unsure of what she wants to major in\u2014she could never tie herself to just one thing for the rest of her life, and it doesn\u2019t help that her family is full of overachievers. What\u2019s more, her romantic life has gone down the drain. Though her friend Tessa insists that Lenore\u2019s going to have a meet-cute on her family\u2019s upcoming Mediterranean cruise, Lenore doesn\u2019t think so. How could a romantic failure like her ever be swept off her feet? Then, on the cruise, she meets Alex Lee, a hopeless romantic of a guy who seems to have his life totally together. He\u2019s the complete opposite of her, which is to say incredibly annoying. Will their differences pull them together, or push them apart?<\/p>\n<p>Though Lenore has a well-developed character arc, the other characters seem quite static, particularly Alex. It seems like he is there to help Lenore become a more focused person and have greater certainty about her life path\u2014and not much else besides that. This, coupled with the fact that they fell in love with each other within just a few days, made their relationship hard to believe. Lenore herself suffers from a lack of proper communication, which makes her hard to tolerate at times. When misunderstandings arise later in the story, she is quick to jump to conclusions and ends up languishing over her own misery for several chapters\u2014an exasperating stall to her character development. There are good messages about taking control of your life and prioritizing mental health at the heart of &#8220;One True Loves&#8221;, but its main draw\u2014romance\u2014fails to deliver.<\/p>\n<p>2 stars of 5 stars<\/p>\n<p>Find this book in our catalog:\u00a0N\/A<\/p>\n<p>Catalog Number:\u00a0<span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;YA FIC SIE,J&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\">N\/A<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:3,&quot;3&quot;:480}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\">320 <\/span>pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Jasmine Sov, age 18 One True Loves by Elise Bryant Lenore Bennett is staring her future in the face. Though she\u2019s committed to NYU, she\u2019s still unsure of what she wants to major in\u2014she could never tie herself to just one thing for the rest of her life, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":7890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,54],"tags":[257,259,258,162],"class_list":["post-7889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-teen-reviews","tag-college","tag-control","tag-cruise","tag-romance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/18\/files\/sites\/18\/2024\/08\/57698597.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ZwbD-23f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5223,"url":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/teens\/2019\/better-than-the-best-plan-teen-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":7889,"position":0},"title":"Better Than the Best Plan &#8212; Teen Review","author":"Teen Blogger","date":"October 5, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Review by Jasmine Sov, 13 Better Than the Best Plan By Lauren Morrill Maritza Reed always has a plan for everything. 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