"Has to be love"

Título: Has to be Love

Autor: Jolene Perry

Páginas: 259

Editorial: Albert Whitman & Company

Review:

4/5 ⭐️

At the first chapters it was hard form me to connect with the characters, I felt them kind of forced, and for some reason it was hard enouch to connect with the story, it was like if something was missing, but, by the middle of the story it kept me into it, I confess that I could not stop until I finished it.

Talking about the story, when I saw the tittle I thought like: “Oh it´s gonna be a beautiful love story between a couple” but how wrong I was, well obviously it has this couple and has this cliche about the love triangle, but I think that that cliche was in some way useless but at the same time was useful; talking again of the story, I think that it´s more about selflove and acceptance, that in my opinion it is the most important value that we have to have in our own lifes.

Now, focusing more in the characters I had this “hate-love” relationship with Clara, at first instance I could understand the reasons of her actions but then some of her reasons where so inmature that they exhausted me. Elias I don´t know, he really frustrated me, I was angry like 90% of the time that he was there, by the end of the book he started to like me, but not a lot, and I don´t know it felt kind of unreal. Rhodes oh man, he was a theme, at first instance I liked him A LOT, but for some things that he does that feeling started to fade away, and he was like meh. The characters that I can say that I liked the whole story where Clara´s Dad and Clara´s best friend, they where really good people, but not only that, they felt like real people.

Finally, I really loved the ending, the final chapter was the perfect ending for the story, beside the fact that it was an open one and I really, really hate them, with this book was the opposite thing, it felt like the right thing and a beautiful one; also, I loved the way Clara´s characters grows up, you can see a different Clara from the first pages and a different one by the end. This book show us a story about growing up and overcome our own fears and monsters.