Over the next year, Allyson embarks on a journey to come to terms with the narrow confines of her life, and through Shakespeare, travel, and a quest for her almost-true-love, to break free of those confines.

After just one day together, that spark bursts into a flame, or so it seems to Allyson, until the following morning, when she wakes up after a whirlwind day in Paris to discover that Willem has left. When sheltered American good girl Allyson “LuLu” Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England, there’s an undeniable spark. Unfortunately, both my high expectations and personal prejudices kept me from loving this novel, though I still enjoyed it. I’ve been thinking about New Adult literature for a long time now, and have decided to actually read some of the books being discussed before weighing in on the discussion. This title, which is distinctly YA in voice but features a college-aged protagonist, is an example being thrown around when the new category of New Adult fiction is referenced, so I thought it important to see what the content actually was before forming an opinion about it’s relationship to the genre. I was dying to read Just One Dayby Gayle Forman not only because I loved If I Stay and Where She Went so much ( find my review here), but also because I was interested in the premise.

It’s more pleasant to be surprised than disappointed. I hate going into a book with certain expectations.

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