Review: One Day in December by Josie Silver

One Day in December by Josie Silver

Blurb from Goodreads:

A love story about what happens after you meet, or rather, don't meet the one.

Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away.

Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be.

What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.

My Review:
 

The idea of this was better than the execution.  I mean, after spanning ten years, the end was abrupt and a bit of a let down.  There was so much build-up and the relationships in this book felt very real but something felt off about the actual characters.  Despite lots of internal monologue, I don't think I knew the characters at all.  I knew their relationship more than I knew them. This will definitely work better for some than it did for me, so good luck!!

One Day in December came out last week on October 16, 2018, and you can purchase HERE. 

I don't know if it's the movement of the arm across the glass or the flickering lights of dandruff-woman's earrings that snag in his peripheral vision, but he lifts his head and blinks a few times as he focuses his attention on my window.  On me. 

We stare straight at each other and I can't look away. I feel my lips move as if I'm going to say something, God know what, and all of a sudden and out of nowhere I need to get off this bus. I'm gripped by the overwhelming urge to go outside, to get to him. But I don't.