One Day by David Nicholls

Goodreads Summary:

Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY.


My Thoughts:

I liked a lot of this book, particularly the Emma segments. She was thoughtful and very normal over all with some slight quirks. Dexter was the typical shitshow that bachelors sometimes are when they have no idea who they are or what they want. It was interesting to get snap shots in time with two very different, yet similar characters. What I didn't like about this book was some of the Dexter sections, I didn't like them because it was hard a lot of the time to like Dexter. When I read something I want to be able to relate to and like a character. I couldn't relate to a lot of what Dexter was going through. I didn't like the person he was for most of the story.


This being said I think this book was incredibly well written and an awesome idea. I didn't feel like I had read the same book previously. Sometimes it feels like writers just switch names of characters with each others books. This book didn't feel familiar which in my world is awesome.


I would recommend this book to most people, though there is a really sad bit toward the end so I wouldn't read it if you don't want to be sad.


While writing this review I was listening to Massive Attack.