by Jojo Moyes
Genre: Fiction/Romance
Pages: 416
Published: 6/26/12 by Penguin Group
Format: book
My rating:
4 out of 5 starsI read Me Before You by Jojo Moyes earlier this year, and I thought it was a great book. I was excited to pick up another book by Moyes at the library, and I was not disappointed. This was an enjoyable read.
The Last Letter from Your Lover is told from two perspectives. It begins with the story of Jennifer in the 1960s, who is in a car accident and loses her memory. As she begins to recover, she finds letters from a secret lover whom she still can't remember. Midway through the book, the story jumps ahead forty years to 2003, where a journalist named Ellie discovers those secret love letters and begins a quest to discover the original source.
I wasn't sure if I was going to like the jump to 2003 in the middle of the book. I really enjoyed Jennifer's story, and I wasn't ready for that story to end and brand new characters to begin. It was jolting for the first chapter or so, but then I began to enjoy reading about Ellie and her perspective. And eventually the two stories collide, bringing us back to Jennifer's story and the letters.
Towards the end, there is a plot twist/surprise that I didn't find to be all that surprising. I'm not sure if that was supposed to be a jaw-dropping moment or not, but I did see it coming pretty early on. Still, I kept turning pages eager to see how everything played out in the end.
There was a feeling of old-fashioned romance in this novel. Maybe it was because the story was about real, handwritten love letters, a dying art in this technological age. I found it to be refreshing. This is definitely a romance novel, and sometimes romance novels are a little too cheesy or explicit for my taste. But I found this novel to be neither cheesy nor explicit. Instead it was well-written and classy and sweet.
Now I'm excited to read Jojo Moyes next book, The Girl You Left Behind, which is coming out next week!
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