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A review by jacobguidolin
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
3.0
After finishing this book I can say I enjoyed it, but if you’d’ve asked me while I was still reading I would have said no.
I like the angle Dolly comes from with her writing, and enjoyed how deeply personal a lot of this book was. After breaking into the book 100 pages or so I found the story to flow and connect quite well (maybe because she’d gotten to a certain part of her life that I resonated with). I also really love how she described her relationship with Farly, she seems like a wonderful person and so genuinely lovely.
I found the excerpts of recipes and letters quite distracting, even though they usually had some relation to the plot of the previous chapter and I think we’re meant to be endearing? Her writing conveys that enough that I think these snippets were superfluous.
The sentiment of this book was great (romantic love is not the be all and end all!) and something a lot of people could take something from, but I don’t think I was quite the intended audience (however one line that did hit me quite hard was ‘If you feel exhausted by people, it’s because you’re willingly playing the martyr to make them like you. It’s your problem, not theirs’).
Would I recommend this book? Yes, you have to see what Dolly’s writing is all about.
Going to have to see how her other novels fare in comparison.
I like the angle Dolly comes from with her writing, and enjoyed how deeply personal a lot of this book was. After breaking into the book 100 pages or so I found the story to flow and connect quite well (maybe because she’d gotten to a certain part of her life that I resonated with). I also really love how she described her relationship with Farly, she seems like a wonderful person and so genuinely lovely.
I found the excerpts of recipes and letters quite distracting, even though they usually had some relation to the plot of the previous chapter and I think we’re meant to be endearing? Her writing conveys that enough that I think these snippets were superfluous.
The sentiment of this book was great (romantic love is not the be all and end all!) and something a lot of people could take something from, but I don’t think I was quite the intended audience (however one line that did hit me quite hard was ‘If you feel exhausted by people, it’s because you’re willingly playing the martyr to make them like you. It’s your problem, not theirs’).
Would I recommend this book? Yes, you have to see what Dolly’s writing is all about.
Going to have to see how her other novels fare in comparison.