They fell passionately, wildly in love when they were eighteen. My parents got married on Valentine’s Day after a month of dating. In other words, I absolutely expect love in my life, but there is no way I’m going to sit around and wait for fate to make it happen. But I strongly suspect that fate and soul mates and love at first sight are concepts created by the same people still waiting for Santa to show up with that puppy they asked for when they were seven years old. Bring on the chocolates and flowers, and throw in a gift card to the local bookstore while you’re at it.Īnd yes, I believe in the existence of true love.

I do believe that Valentine’s Day is an overcommercialized Hallmark holiday, but I also think there’s nothing wrong with enjoying the materialistic side effects of the celebration. Well, I am neither-and both-of these people. Then you have the cynics, those curmudgeonly souls who call it a Hallmark holiday and complain that if true love exists, its proclamations should be expressed spontaneously on any random day and without the expectation of gifts. These individuals believe in fate and soul mates and the notion that the universe sends out winged, mostly naked babies to shoot arrows into select single people, thus infecting them with true love that may cause drowsiness and a massive happily-ever-after. When Valentine’s Day rears its sugary-sweet, heart-shaped head, there are two types of people who receive it.įirst, you have the full-on lovers of the holiday, hopeless romantics obsessed with the idea of love itself. How many days can one girl passively watch her life go up in flames? And when something good starts to come out of these terrible days, what happens when the universe stops doling out do-overs? Read more

In addition to Josh’s recurring infidelity, Emilie can’t get away from the enigmatic Nick, who she keeps running into-sometimes literally-in unfortunate ways. And the next day? Another nightmare V-Day.Įmilie is stuck in some sort of time loop nightmare that she can’t wake up from as she re-watches her boyfriend, Josh, cheat on her day after day. She passes out on the couch, but when she wakes up, she’s back home in her own bed-and it’s Valentine’s Day all over again. In this riotous young adult romp for fans of Recommended for You and A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, a teen girl has the worst Valentine’s Day ever-only to relive it over and over again.Īfter living through a dumpster fire of a Valentine’s Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmother’s house for some comfort and a consolation pint of Ben & Jerry’s.

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