Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis
At sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. Attached was her name, her email address… and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloon and immediately emailed the attached address, sparking an intense friendship between the two teens.
Now, fourteen years later, Emmie is hiding the fact that she’s desperately in love with Lucas. She has pinned all her hopes on him and waits patiently for him to finally admit that she’s the one for him. So dedicated to her love for Lucas, Emmie has all but neglected her life outside of this relationship—she’s given up the search for her absentee father, no longer tries to build bridges with her distant mother, and lives as a lodger to an old lady she barely knows after being laid off. And when Lucas tells Emmie he has a big question to ask her, she’s convinced this is the moment he’ll reveal his feelings for her. But nothing in life ever quite goes as planned, does it?
Filled with heart and humor, Dear Emmie Blue “beautifully captures the heartache and frustrations of carrying our teenaged selves with us wherever we go” (Anstey Harris, author of Goodbye Paris) that is perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Evvie Drake Starts Over.
It's been a while since I read something that made me so emotional!
This one was soo good!🎈
Emmie Blue was just sixteen when she released a balloon with her
name and email address attached, after some traumatic events. And
surprisingly it travels many miles and reaches the shores of France
where another teen - Lucas Moreau finds it and they end up striking
a friendship. Now at thirty, Emmie has been waiting for Lucas to
confess his love for her during their combined birthday celebration
dinner but instead, he reveals that he's engaged and asks her to be
his best man 🥲 Emmie agrees because she wants the best for him and
though she doesn't want their friendship to change, things don't
always remain the same, do they? And when she decides to start
searching for her father with some help from Lucas' brother Eliot,
she discovers many things about herself - and others - along the
way.
At first glance, the description might make you think that it's a
story about unrequited love but nothing could be further from the
reality of that. My heart broke for Emmie and I wanted to reach in
through the book and give her a hug, but she had so much inner
strength and resilience too. The writing was absolutely amazing and
through the flashbacks, we get to see young Emmie meeting the Moreau
family and finally finding a home for herself. Both of the brothers
are important to her as their friendship quite literally saved her
in many ways. It was hard not to empathize with her and it was easy
to understand why she valued her friendship with Lucas so much. Her
friendship with her coworkers - Rosie and Fox brings out a more
relaxed side of her and I loved watching her grow and become more
confident in herself. There were so many humorous and light-hearted
moments in the story and I loved how this book had me feeling
everything while keeping things balanced! The romance was definitely
the cherry on the top and that epilogue was amazing!❣️ I should
probably stop gushing about this one but I'll probably be thinking
about this for days to come!🎈
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Lia Louis is an author from Hertfordshire, the United Kingdom, where she
lives with her partner and three children. She has written three novels
to date – Somewhere Close to Happy (2019), Dear Emmie Blue (2020), and
her new novel Eight Perfect Hours was released in late 2021. Lia’s books
are enjoyed around the world and have been translated into over 10
languages.
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