The One We Fell in Love With

In short this story is about triplets that all falls in love with the same man.

But it’s also about so much more…..

This story is about three girls not just girls, but sisters, and IDENTICAL triplets at that. But despite their alike appearance they all have a very different nature.

Phoebe the middle one is the popular one, the kind of girl that everyone loves. When we meet her she’s only a few weeks from getting married to the love of her life, and therefor spends her bachelorette party as a holiday in the french alps that she loves so much. There’s history here for her, and a life that she feels she needs to say goodbye to……

Rose – the oldest by 12 mintures – the more mature one of the girls according to her. When we meet her she’s moving back to Manchester, having quit her job as a nurse in London to begin all over. She’s unsure of where to go from there, but she needs the new start…

And Eliza the youngest. Most people would describe her as being the quirky one, the wild one, the one that still at the age of 27 relies too much on her parents (living at home etc). Her biggest dream is to become a singer, but a lack of support makes it seems like a silly dream…….

This story is about sisterhood and all the feelings involved siblings rivalry, jalousy, love and the all in the between. Add to them that they are identical, so they fight a lot to show people I am not her, she is not me.

I’m afraid I can’t give away more because this is a book that you have to go blank into, to really get the impacts from the story. It’s a story where one situation (their father’s dead) makes them question the life they have now, setting them off a journey that’s full of surprices.

How it’s written it’s written from each of the sisters pov, alternating between Phoebe, Rose and Eliza (only first chapter is told from Angus’s pov, and it’s a HOT one, and also a really liberating one because it gives us a view of what he is thinking, which is much needed)
I tend to skip books with a lot of povs because they often seems to be dragging, but I thought The One We Fell In Love with was very well done.
The alternating povs are a great help to understand how compleks a story it is, both for the characters individually but also as a general overview.
There was though one of the pov I had trouble connecting to, but I think it mostly had something to do with that I had a feeling where the story was going, and I did not want to go that way. The hashtag #thatbit you probably will spot in several reviews refers to this bit, and it is that secret bit that suddenly makes the story makes sense, and explain why the characters are the way they are. It’s also why I can’t tell you much about that bit. It’s a realisation that will both make you gisp, long, and close the book in anger. But of couse you don’t because you want to find out what happens next. xx

This was a gripping tale, where the author definitely liked to cement her title as the queen of bittersweet. My jaw was twisted with pain for most of the time of the read, and when I turned the last page I was left with a very lonely and empty feeling. I NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO ABOUT THE STORY!
I loved this book. I loved the sister theme in it, I loved the message, I cried with the characters, and I swooned several places too.

The storyline was quite catchy and was worth reading, but it did not engage me so much as “Pictures of Lily” or “One Perfect Summer”. I wondered why and came to the conclusion, that the book lacked its usual Paige Toon like “edginess” and subtlety. I did not feel what heroines felt, I was just told about it, I could not fall for the hero(es?), I was told that the girls did. I think that there was too much wallowing, dragging around one topic and too little action in between, too few unknown people around, to wonder what next…

Paige Toon is one of my favorite authors and I was thrilled to read her latest book, The One We Fell In Love With. I was saving the book a bit, because I wanted to savor the feeling of having a new book of hers to read.

It wasnt a classic Toon story and I took me a few chapters to really get into it. But I appreciated the slow unfolding of the story once I figured out that was the case.
I really loved the characters in this one and they felt interesting. The cover is gorgeous and the writing is as usual, really great

I was searching for a new author to read and I am so happy I found Paige Toon. She is now one of my favorite writers along with Marian Keyes and Jill Mansell. This book was fresh,emotional,clever, and entertaining. I could hardly put it down.

Once again, Paige Toon hasn’t dissapointed me. Every year I wait for her new book, wondering about the characters, the places, the plot…
Is not just about the story itself, but the way emotions are described. Every time I end up missing places I have never been to because I’m engaged to them through the characters, and I love to find between the pages the reappearance of another character from another book, giving us a hint of what came after the”happily ever after”.
Big thumbs up from me!

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