[Book Review] If I never met You By Mhairi McFarlane

 

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                       Title        : If I never Met you

                            Author      : Mhairi Mc Farlane

                           Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks                                                           (March, 24, 2020)

                            Language :  English

                           Paperback : 429 pages

Words can’t describe how much I love reading this novel from the beginning to the ending. It's like 0%Naked Woman 0% Flirting 0%Drugs ........ But 100& talented author. 

I learn not to hate people even if they did super terrible things to you as like laurie for not hatting her long term partner for leaving her.  

Unlike other romance novel I’ve ever read, it didn’t serve physical interact (Sex, kiss, bed etc) to make the audience felt what they really are. It served us a chase and conversation to involve and engaged  us to the story.

 

It tells the story from laurie Dan and Jaime, but not a triangle love story as in the usual romance novel it is far different. 

1. Dan and Laurie

Who doesn’t devastated if someone you give the whole world depend on just leaving? and you’ve been with him for 18 years, you've known every single detail of him than anyone else in the world, you’ve share every moment of your life and gave hundreds percent trust on him, yet he just break it for un make sense reason.

said he doesn’t feel happy anymore and he doesn’t feel himself if you are around. That is the story of laurie and dan. She’d met Dan when she was eighteen, yet Dan had chosen a future without her, and as sad and harrowing and unexpected as that had been, now she got to choose a future for herself. 

 “laurie knew that most people were murdered by someone they know”

Of course I’m terribly sad for laurie, those feeling still can’t get out of my chest even if I’ve already finish reading and know the fact that laurie end  happily with Jaime not with come back to Dan.

I actually should tell you guys much about Jaime and laurie love story because Dan is her past tense. But please for sure I know how hard she tried to forget him and blame herself for making him doesn’t happy anymore. 

For the f*ck shake. I HATE DAN with all of my heart. He’s heathen, D*ck head and I could give every negative words to him for doing this to laurie. What I hate the most is WHY he still give a fuck to her, still want pay their house montage for the time being, hece he have higher salary than her and text her for making sure she is Ok.

 It’s better to let her be and just turn to someone who can hated by her. It became easier to get rid of him than still being nice you know.

I understand they were best friends before start dating and wanna still keep in touch in friend not as a couple.

“Hi. Hope you’re OK. Can’t imagine how shit you feel Laurie and I’m so so so sorry, I never meant for any of this to happen. I don’t know what to say. Call me if you want to, even if it’s to shout at me”

The example of dan message,. He send it after seeing her again after 2 months and admit that he already met woman and impregnate her, Yet he said to laurei that he don’t want to have kid even if he know laurei want one so bad.  

“dan you know, I want kid so bad, then with whom I’m supposed to have in my age right now ”

I also sad of Dan’s decision to tell laurei he cheat on her with the woman he know for a year and just falling for her. it will be easier for her to get rid of him that way, instead of said bullshit with words “I’mnot happy anymore”

2. Laurei and Jaime

Stop remaining her past tense and let’s talk about Jaime and laurei. As like laurei’s mother once said that 

“She should make her own way, straight forward and not look back. Even if Dan is walking back to you”

“Whatever miscommunications, whatever differences, your mum was your mum. She was the earthing cable in your circuitry. There were still things you could say to her you couldn’t say to anyone else.

Look back to Jaime and laurei,They are co-worker and never spoke before. It begin with purpose of pretending. That laurei want to see Dan hurt while Jaime wanted to get promotion on their office and become Dan’s boos. 

Actually to get the promotion he need to have couple, I mean a trusted couple. The fact that Jaime familiar with a club man with plenty of woman around making his boos didn’t consider him to get the promotion. And it is the story of them begin. 

They start to know each other and find comfort around, feeling love etc. laurei also realize that if dan had already choose his future without her then why doesn’t she?

 

I don’t want to talk too much about their relation because I want you guys read it by yourself.  In summary they fits each other and laurei realize he change her a lot and even make her confidence to defense herself in front of Dan and his new girl without feeling hurt on her chest. She became a confidence and fearless laurei.