Taylor Jenkins Reid

A love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life

A Novel

One True Loves

You can't capture love in a bottle. You can't hold on to it with both hands and force it to stay with you.

I liked the pain because the pain was you.

I need everybody to understand that this is not "emo". It's real and important because real people really experience this.

Hollow and empty are terrible ways to feel when you're used to being full of joy. But it's not bad when you're used to being full of pain.

Which is nice, because for so long you have felt like you were at the end.

I had predicated my life on the idea that I wanted to see everywhere extraordinary, but I'd come to realise that extraordinary is everywhere.

She read adult books and wrote poetry and had crushes on fictional characters instead of movie stars

When you look back on your own timeline, there's a sharp spike somewhere along the way, some event that changed you, changed your life, more than others.

A moment that creates a "before" and an "after".

honestly, after eveyrthing that’s happened, jesse isn’t emma’s person anymore. i think everyone needs their person at a specific time in their life, and once they change, they find new people, or maybe they go back to their person from another time in their life. emma and jesse were her past, her young adult and teenage life. but emma and sam, are forever, since they were kids they loved each other, and they still do. 

maria garcia 

"Everything is going to be OK," he says to me before I fall asleep. But I'm not sure I believe him anymore. 

Lizett Soto 

When I was a kid, I loved the snow. Then when I moved to California, I used to tell people I'd never leave the sun, that I never wanted to see snow again. But now, I can't imagine a green Christmas and I know that if I left, I would miss that feeling of coming in from the cold. I have changed over time. That's what people do. People aren't stagnant. We evolve in reaction to our pleasures and our pains.

Tallie Packett

“There is nothing more romantic than this. Holding the very person that you thought you lost, and knowing you’ll never lose them again.”

“Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be.”

Keira 💫

None of that mattered when I had the man of my dreams. 

Three hundred and sixty-four days later, he was gone.

“Are you kidding?” I asked. “You are my one true love. I don’t even think I’m capable of loving anyone else.”

That week at school, I noticed Jesse in the hallway almost every day. Now that I knew who he was, he was everywhere.

I am finishing up dinner with my family and my fiancé when my husband calls. 

Fayee Magan

Falling out of love with someone you still like feels exactly like lying in a warm bed and hearing the alarm clock. No matter how good you feel right now, you know it's time to go.

kyahluka

Don't ever let anyone tell you the nost romantic part of love is the beginning. The most romantic part is when you know it has to end. 

OH MY GOSH. this book is tearing me in two!!!!

ava 

To see if you love him the way you love me

Miglė

amelia grace 

Ian Brakspear

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Named a Best Book of Summer by Cosmopolitan * InStyle * Redbook * Us Weekly * PopSugar * Buzzfeed * Bustle * Brit+Co * Parade “No one does life and love better.” –InStyle “Earth-shaking…you will flip for this epic love story.” –Cosmopolitan “Reid's heartwrenching tale asks if it's possible to have multiple soul mates.” —Us Weekly From the author of Maybe in Another Life—named a People Magazine pick—comes a breathtaking new love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life. In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever. Emma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness. That is, until Jesse is found. He’s alive, and he’s been trying all these years to come home to her. With a husband and a fiancé, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants, while trying to protect the ones she loves. Who is her one true love? What does it mean to love truly? Emma knows she has to listen to her heart. She’s just not sure what it’s saying.

Darshini ✨

Elicia Au Duong

my empath heart was so conflicted. how do you choose between the LOVES of your life?

Abby Champion

If you want to cry yourself to sleep, then read this book. If you don’t.. then still read this book because it’s really good

Nia Chamberlain

Erin Campbell

this book is so beautifully written in a heartbreaking yet fulfilling way. tjr never fails to completely draw me in to her books. loved the plot, characters and ending. wow.

I hated Emma for most of the book. I hated Jesse for most of the book. I adored Sam the whole way through.

But there are so many quotable lines about love and lost and how both must coexist. It was beautiful, but not something I'll put myself through again.

3.75/5 stars.

I hated Emma for most of the book. I hated Jesse for most of the book. I adored Sam the whole way through.

But there are so many quotable lines about love and lost and how both must coexist. It was beautiful, but not something I'll put myself through again.

when taylor jenkins reid writes… she WRITES. this book changed my entire brain. it showed me everything i could believe and think about love. emma and jesse were an epic love. but they both changed, and they weren’t it for each other anymore. sam and emma were it for each other, they always were. this book shows you how love can change a person, it really does. when i first started reading i loved jesse, i wanted emma to end up with him forever, but then she changed, she changed into the emma she is now and that’s okay, because her and sam were always there for each other. they always though about the other, and that is true love. 

Steffi J

** spoiler alert **
           Love the character development. Story is built quite realistically… ***SPOILERS***
I mean, we don’t always end up with our first love, do we?

This book was everything I wanted. I didn’t find it as sad as everyone else because I was anti jesse from the very beginning tbh. I do love that it’s center around lose, finding yourself and making your own identity - didn’t hinder on the romance too much

Madisyn Priestley

Sarah Pino

for what this book wanted to be, this was perfect.

Lottie

This book was really really good but sometimes I just couldn't bring myself to read it because I knew that my heart was going to be broken anyways. I'm really happy with the ending and I love how everything turned out.

Sloan MacDonald

I love Taylor Jenkins Reid, but honestly I was eager for this to be over the whole entire time.

Ashley

I liked this book! I did enjoy it for sure, but it wasn’t a 5 star for me personally. I definitely recommend it!! (Sorry for the short review haha I don’t have time to write out a whole one right now) 

Also I can’t wait for the movie!! 🤩

Taylor Rae Peterson

** spoiler alert **
           Another super complicated story wrapped up in a perfect bow. Not sure what I expected but I just didn't care for this one as much as I thought it would!

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Named a Best Book of Summer by Cosmopolitan * InStyle *PopSugar * Buzzfeed * Bustle * Brit+Co * Parade “No one does life and love better.” InStyle “Earth-shaking…you will flip for this epic love story.” Cosmopolitan In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever. Emma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness. That is, until Jesse is found. He’s alive, and he’s been trying all these years to come home to her. With a husband and a fiance, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants while trying to protect the ones she loves. But who is her one true love? What does it mean to love truly?

i gave it the three chapter try, i just find little sister POV books to be hard to get through sometimes and Emma is just sooooooo self deprecating that i had to stop listening. love TJR tho will try other books  

Emma Carlson

Everyone needs to read this. Absolutely beautiful TJR does it again 

Eliza adkins 

Kattalin Jones 

Absolutely loved this! But a controversial opinion I don’t understand everyone’s love for Jesse. I understand why it made people emotional but since I was team Sam for most of it it lacked a little for me

Sofia Nunes

“Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be.”
This book found me exactly when I needed it to and, for that, I'm grateful. 

That is all. 
  “Good things don’t wait until you’re ready. Sometimes they come right before, when you’re almost there. And I figured when that happens, you can let them pass by like a bus not meant for you. Or you can get ready. So I got ready.”

mercy

[4.5] tjr is out here redefining the meaning of true love n breaking my heart while she’s at it

celene

feeling hurt but it was a happy ending,,,, much to think about 🤧

grace richards

thank god this book ended the way i hoped it would because if it had ended any other way i think i would’ve thrown the book at a wall

Midori Kobayashi

this was the definition of cathartic tearjerking beautiful amazing perfect made me feel all the feels- type of book. yes i loved another TJR book yes i am forever attached a new set of fictional characters yes nobody is surprised. can we talk about that brain that conjures up this story tho? i went into the book absolutely blind as in to the extent that i didn't even read the GR description else i would have some hint of what i am getting into. instead i did what is usually done with thrillers and holy fucking shit was i so underprepared for this😭 absolutely loved it 10/10 will keep thinking about it for a long long time.

isha panwar

if no one got me, i know my girl taylor jenkins reid got me.

Jennifer mitchell

I am in love with everything TJR writes.

This book was so beautifully heartbreaking. I thought the ending was perfect and it was exactly what I wanted to see happen.

Exquisite writing about falling in love and changing and growing from that love. A powerful story that I will remember forever.

One True Loves A Novel

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