Book Review - Love Your Life by Sophie Kinsella

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Title: Love Your Life

Author: Sophie Kinsella

Format reviewed: Paperback

Source: Purchased

Publisher: Black Swan

Publication Date: 24th June 2021

Rating: 5 Stars

I love you . . . but what if I can't love your life?

Ava is sick of online dating. She's always trusted her own instincts over an algorithm, anyway, and she wants a break from it all. So when she signs up to a semi-silent, anonymous writing retreat in glorious Italy, love is the last thing on her mind.

Until she meets a handsome stranger. . . All she knows is that he's funny, he's kind and - she soon learns - he's great in bed. He's equally smitten, and after a whirlwind, intoxicating affair, they pledge their love without even knowing each other's real names.

But when they return home, reality hits. They're both driven mad by each other's weird quirks and annoying habits, from his eccentric, naked-sauna-loving family to her terribly behaved, shirt-shredding dog. As disaster follows disaster, it seems that while they love each other, they just can't love each other's lives. Can they overcome their differences to find one life, together?

Another brilliant book from the rom-com queen Sophie Kinsella. 

I raced through this story, often in disbelief at Ava and Matt, but generally loving every page of it.  It's just the Ava is slightly delusional especially when talking to her friends or herself, about the true nature of her relationship with Matt. 

Don't get me wrong love both characters, it's just they are complete and utter opposites, who believed they had a love at first sight connection on a writers retreat, where until the flight home they didn't know each others names or anything that would potentially be covered in regular small talk. 

But they are totally into each other, and I loved their connection, and they definitely had one.. but the nitty gritty of life and they are in totally different orbits. 

Which is what makes this book so amusing, as they try to come to terms with their relationship in the real world, and we also get to know their friends really well. 

There is a great mix of characters in this, and I have to say I've not encountered Matt's family business before, and half of me would have liked to know more. 

It's such an enjoyable story and it's classic Kinsella.