SP's Reviews > An Optimist's Guide to Heartbreak

I honestly love everything Jennifer writes, so I might be a little bias. This is definitely a 5 star read to me.

This story is very character driven, which I found really refreshing coming from Jennifer. It’s clear she can definitely write stories that make you feel everything to your core, and I felt like Lucy and Cal’s story was no different.

The tone of this story was melancholic and tension filled, almost like you are waiting for the other shoe to drop. There is a few secrets that we are waiting to be revealed, we get glimpses at the the last through one of my favorite forms of media, which helped heighten the tension, and mystery to every chapter. I found myself yearning for chapters told from this specific characters perspective, but was happy when I found answers.

Yes this story has secrets and twists, but it also has an element that Jennifer is a master at, it has hope and love and heartache. It has flawed characters that you can’t help but find beautiful at the same time. Relationship dynamics that only come around once in a lifetime, because it’s that type of love where you know these two are it for each other, that they were exactly what one another needs. Cal and Lucy definitely don’t have it easy, and the cliff hanger at the end of book one, had my stomach in knots… I was eagerly waiting book two to see what is in store for these two.