Dear Emmie Blue
Books | Fiction / Women
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Lia Louis
In this charming and poignant novel that “oozes charm and wit and speaks beautifully about friendship and love, and the differences between the two” (Laura Pearson, author of I Wanted You to Know), teenager Emmie Blue releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it. But fourteen years later, everything Emmie has planned is up in the air.At sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. Attached was her name, her email address…and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloon and immediately emailed the attached address, sparking an intense friendship between the two teens. Now, fourteen years later, Emmie is hiding the fact that she’s desperately in love with Lucas. She has pinned all her hopes on him and waits patiently for him to finally admit that she’s the one for him. So dedicated to her love for Lucas, Emmie has all but neglected her life outside of this relationship—she’s given up the search for her absentee father, no longer tries to build bridges with her distant mother, and lives as a lodger to an old lady she barely knows after being laid off. And when Lucas tells Emmie he has a big question to ask her, she’s convinced this is the moment he’ll reveal his feelings for her. But nothing in life ever quite goes as planned, does it? Filled with heart and humor, Dear Emmie Blue “beautifully captures the heartache and frustrations of carrying our teenaged selves with us wherever we go” (Anstey Harris, author of Goodbye Paris) that is perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Evvie Drake Starts Over.
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Author
Lia Louis
Pages
320
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2020-07-14
ISBN
198213593X 9781982135935
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"Great weekend read with sweet, mostly likable characters. Looking for similar books."
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Deonna Clark
"4.5/5 stars"
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Lisa Francine
"3.5*<br/>Entirely predictable but a pleasant read."
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"Wonderfully charming. "
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Rachel Nelsen
"It’s the best book for a weekend read!! Very interesting, loved the switch in the middle."
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Emma Cross
"I feel like we’ve all been in a place in our lives where we have just felt so confident about something. Something that we think is “meant to be” or simply just ‘feels right’. How many times have we been proven wrong? I know I personally have a few dozen times in my life.. (maybe more). <br/><br/>Emmie and Lucas have been best friends.. and I really mean BEST FRIENDS for 14 years. It’s only a matter of time before Lucas and Emmie become official right? I mean of course, they only have EVERYTHING in common.. they are perfect for each other.. or so Emmie believes. But Emmie has never told him how she feels about him, and now Lucas has something very important he needs to ask her.<br/><br/>Can it be?"