One Day in December

By: Josie Silver

“You tread lightly through life, but you leave deep footprints that are hard for other people to fill.”

Oh boy. This was another Booksta made me read it. Want a synopsis? Laurie and Jack see each other through a bus window while Laurie was riding the bus. She spent a year looking for him. Her best friend and roommate Sarah comes home one day with her new boyfriend. And it’s Jack. They spend years pining for each other but staying with whom they are with until they are both finally single. Then, HEA.

That book should not have been so long. Talk about a slow burn. It was SO slow it was boring. This book could have seriously been edited down. Were there some swoon worthy moments? Sure there were a few, but I lost the feeling because it took SO long for the book to go anywhere. Literally, the scenes in the book take course of years. I felt like it took me years to read the book.

The characters were meh. Laurie kept complaining about her job but then really didn’t try to do anything to get herself in a better position. I thought Jack was sweet a first but then he did something I couldn’t stand – so that went out the window.

A lot of the characters were filler to pass the time and they felt like that – such as Laurie’s parents.

Lastly, the ending. It really felt like the author wrote a book with the idea in her head that it would be made into a movie. Was it sweet? Yes. But, it felt like it ended abruptly. We assume we got the HEA, but did we though, because an epilogue would have cleared that up.

So many people loved this, so I am in the minority. That’s okay though!

If you’re interested in this book, find it here.