How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang on April 9, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Asian American, Fiction / Diversity & Multicultural, Fiction / Family Life / Siblings, Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Multicultural & Interracial, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Romance / Workplace, Fiction / Women
Pages: 384
Format: Audiobook, Hardcover
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This was a book that surprised me. I started listening to this one a while back for about 3 minutes and then gave up because I thought it was going to be depressing. Then I came back to this one again weeks later and I really enjoyed this one. It wasn’t at all what I expected.
The premise is one the intrigued me: Helen Zhang hasn’t seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years since the tragic accident that bound their lives together forever.
Helen is a writer whose YA book is being turned into a TV series. She is part of the writers room to make sure that everything goes smoothly. She doesn’t know that Grant is also in the writer’s room. Grant carries a lot of guilt about Helen’s sister also. Helen’s sister decided to kill herself and jumped in front of a car that happened to be Grants. So to see Grant in the writer’s room was a shock. He moved to the other side of the country and moved on. He was always well liked and she was more of a wallflower. However, working together is messy and electrifying, and Helen’s parents, who have never forgiven Grant, have no idea he’s involved at all.
Can they move on from their past and work together? Will they make nice? I liked how the characters developed in this one. They had great chemistry and the banter was witty most of the time. This one pleasantly surprised me. I wasn’t sure I would like this at all at first, but then the story took off. I was rooting for the characters and I did really like them.