Feeling very lucky to be on the blog tour for I Think I Love You on this fine Wednesday! Check out the rest of the tour schedule here, and be sure to find my Instagram post as well. Here's to Emma, Sophia, and their love story. The Book and its AuthorA sweet and funny debut novel about falling for someone when you least expect it . . . and finding out that real life romance is better than anything on screen. Emma is a die-hard romantic. She loves a meet-cute Netflix movie, her pet, Lady Catulet, and dreaming up the Gay Rom Com of her heart for the film festival competition she and her friends are entering. If only they’d listen to her ideas. . . Sophia is pragmatic. She’s big into boycotts, namely 1) relationships, 2) teen boys and their BO (reason #2347683 she’s a lesbian), and 3) Emma’s nauseating ideas. Forget starry-eyed romance, Sophia knows what will win: an artistic film with a message. Cue the drama. The movie is doomed before they even start shooting . . . until a real-life plot twist unfolds behind the camera when Emma and Sophia start seeing each other through a different lens. Suddenly their rivalry is starting to feel like an actual rom-com. Auriane is the author of I Think I Love You, and works as a middle school teacher and freelance editor. She holds an MA in English Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing for Children & Young Adults. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog, Sammy, who is a certified bad boy. Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads ReviewI Think I Love You is a rather saccharine romance, all about the idea of falling in love and the challenges of friendship. Seeing as I'm rather into that... plus... enemies to lovers sapphic romance? Sign me up immediately. The novel is very sweet and character driven, even though there are some ostensibly fleshed out plotlines about the movies Emma and Sophia work to direct, as well as their plots to set up their friends. The care the group shows one another despite Emma and Sophia's bickering became really important to me. They pay so much attention to each others' emotional states and do whatever's necessary to share light in their lives. We love to see a strong friend group! And believe me when I say strong--this lot goes through so much drama in the span of 320 pages. I related mainly to Emma. I'm a romantic at heart, I love rom-coms and the idea of love. I don't say it a lot because publicizing my labels makes me uncomfortable, but I'm also bi like she is. She has a lot of thinking to do about the way her identity fits in with her family, and some of it affected me rather personally. I can vouch for the rep, and I'm so grateful for the increased visibility in traditional publishing. Every year I get more books to add to my queer reads list, and I couldn't be happier. Although I personally empathized more with Emma, Sophia's motivations were more fleshed-out for me. I felt so bad for her because of how lonely she feels after returning from Paris feeling disconnected from the friend group. I don't necessarily agree with her viewpoint on love, but I can certainly understand it as a defensive mechanism against all the broken romances she's seen. It's absolutely tragic to me that she had to feel that way for so long--I felt so sorry for her. Going to get up on a brief soapbox and talk about the movie Emma plans to make during the novel. She's right about 100% of it. We have so little positive wlw representation in Hollywood, and even less of it made by women themselves. I'd totally support her project if it were real, because she's intrepid and authentic and so enthusiastic about showcasing love's possibilities. I'm not much of a movie buff, but that's the kind of film I'd love to see more of. I do feel the obligation to bring up a small problem I had. Throughout the book, the boys of the friend group are... unnecessarily villified, let's say. I understand the importance of showing one-sided friendships and consent, but was uncomfortable with how at every opportunity, the girls saw the possibility of malice in their previously-kind friends. That struck me as odd, especially in the moments when they didn't give any indication of actually being bad friends? I personally don't go looking for hidden signs of misogyny and evil in my male friends, but you do you Emma and Sophia, I guess. This probably isn't the ideal novel for anyone who needs positive roles for men in their literature--I can suggest several of those if you'd like to email me. All minor quibbles aside, I'm delighted to recommend this film-centric contemporary novel for your reading pleasure. 4/5 stars for I Think I Love You. You'll be seeing more of this book, because I won't be able to stop including it on my rec lists! Favorite Quotes
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