Book info

• Title Dear Emmie Blue
• Author Lia Louis
• Year 2020
• Genre Romance

Emmie Blue has a secret... A long time ago, Emmie Blue released a red balloon with a secret message hidden inside - and against all odds, across hundreds of miles of ocean, it was found on a beach in France by a boy called Lucas. Fourteen years later, on the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Emmie hopes that Lucas is finally about to kiss her. She never expected him to announce that he was marrying someone else! Suddenly Emmie's dreams are shattered and the one person in her life she can rely on is slipping through her fingers. But what if Lucas isn't her forever? What if her love story is only just beginning...

Thoughts

This is a super romantic story, with such a great premise at the heart of it and then plenty of twists and turns along the way. I like that it dips back and forth in time in a slightly less obnoxious way than some books do, and the way the story unfolds is just exactly the right information you need at exactly the right time. What a lovely story, and I could just picture the film adaptation that could be made of this.

Rating: 4 / 5