Review: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E Smith
Title: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
Hardcover, 236 pages
Author: Jennifer E Smith
Publisher: Poppy
Publication Date: January 2, 2012
Source: Book Expo America
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Book Summary:
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan’s life. She’s stuck at JFK, late to her father’s second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon to be step-mother that Hadley’s never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport’s cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he’s British, and he’s in seat 18C. Hadley’s in 18A.
Twists of fate and quirks of timing play out in this thoughtful novel about family connections, second chances and first loves. Set over a 24-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver’s story will make you believe that true love finds you when you’re least expecting it.
Review:
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight is a fun, cute contemporary. My favorite part of this book is that it is over 24 hours only. For some reason reading about one day in a person’s life really appeals to me from time to time. (Side note – Intensity by Dean Koontz is also in a 24 hour time period and that’s my favorite of his books, but anyway.)
Hadley is in an airport on her way to her father’s wedding in London, so as you can imagine much of the novel is spent in the airport and on the plane, since it’s quite a long ride across the ocean. This is a very fun (and unique) setting for a book, and brought some things into consideration that would not be normal in real life-namely the fact that you’re sitting next to a stranger for many hours in a row with nowhere else to go. Some parts are expected and some are slightly unexpected, so I found myself very satisfied at the end of this book.
If you’re buying gifts for Valentine’s Day I think this would be cute to gift :)
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Twitter: FaraHanany
Great review! So far there’s no bad review on this book yet. Ergh! I really need to get my hands on it. :P
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I love the whole 24 hour aspect – that was definitely my favorite aspect too. I found that I didn’t mind the predictable parts much either – mostly because it seemed so realistic.
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I LOVED this one! Thanks for the review
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Oh, I love the idea of gifting this for Valentine’s! Still haven’t read it… but must do so eventually! Haven’t seen a bad review yet :) And I’m partly just excited to have read your review b/c my husband loves Dead Koontz, and now I have a good recommendation for him!
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I love this new 24 hour trend. It’s so fun! I really loved this book too.
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