Story Lover

by Ann Brashares

I thought this book was great. I almost immediately got drawn in and I devoured it. But the ending left me feeling sad. Daniel was a sucker for repeating the past. He would leave ‘Sophia’ or whatever reincarnation she was and he’d go and do what’s ‘right’. He did it to her as Sophia and he did it again when she was Lucy. And I can’t help but feel a little sad, like he’s the one who keeps making it impossible for them to be together. And she’s left in the meantime waiting. She must have spent the majority of her lives (the ones that overlapped with Daniel) waiting for him to come back.

In fact, I have to say, I hated this ending. I felt like she kind of just lost some wind at the end and couldn’t write another word. She ended it with a letter? What the hell does that mean? And, yeah, it was pretty predictable that Lucy was going to get pregnant. A lot went unexplained. Is there going to be a sequel, cause Brashares sure left a lot of pot holes within the last three chapters. What was the point of not drowning? If they wanted to face him, why not have done it on the beach?