Just One Day

"We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day.  Anything can happen in one day,"

Just One Day by Gayle Forman
4 of 5 Stars
Format: Hardcover
Genre: New Adult, Adventure, Romance, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, College
Pages: 368

Summary:

Allyso has pretty much had everything set for her. Her overbearing mother constantly makes plans for her and her parents never take the time to talk to her, just at her.

For a graduation present Allyson goes with her best friend on a tour group to travel around Europe. On the last day of the tour she and her best friend sneak away from the tour to go see an underground performances of the Twelfth Night. Allyson seems to have a instant connection with a dutch actor, Willem, who performs as sebastian.

By chance, they managed to find each other and Willem convinces Allyson to go away with him to Paris for the day and for the first time Allyson takes a leap of faith and joins him  They find adventures and talk of love. By the next morning she finds herself alone, deserted in Paris.

From that one day her life would change. While searching for Willem she also learns about herself along the way.

"And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and not matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost and then I showed myself how to get found. 

Maybe accidents isn't the right word for it after all . Maybe miracle is.

Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it when you say yes."

My thoughts

I swear books like this one ruin my chance of ever finding someone. Willem in this book is just perfect (except for the disappearing bit), I would love to meet him the way Allyson did and have that one day.

I would've given this book a 5 star but this book seemed to drag a bit. Allyson whiny attitude drove me nuts I just wanted to shake her! She was a bit o a downer, couldn't she just let her friend and the people who wanted to be close to her know of her story. That would've saved a lot of time. The story was very predictable. I really liked the vivid details so what was happening and how she was feeling. It was easy to immerse yourself with the characters and everything she felt, I felt.

This book has got me wanted to travel now, just reading the details of her adventure makes me want to go somewhere anywhere but here. I liked that she started off as the sheltered girl who pretty much did what she was told and went to being a girl who asserted herself and went for what she wanted. She did what she felt was right and gone for it not matter what her parents felt.

Trust me when I say, to spare your feelings wait till the next book comes out to read it. Or else you'll be like me and have to wait months till it comes out. I hate that!

Gayle Forman is such a talented author and can really get her reader so emotional with her heartbreaking and inspiring books. If you liked this book you'll love her other books: If I Stay and Where she went.

Oh yea I forgot to mention, Cliff hangers!!!! No!!!! Can't believe I got to wait till October to see what happens next. When I went to the book signing Q&A for Gayle Forman the next book is supposed to start went he left her that day and what he had to find her and what happens at the ending of this book.

"...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy even. I thought. Then someone came along and showed me there was a door in the room. One that I'd never even seen before. Then he opened it for me. Held my hand as I walked through it. And for one perfect day, I was on the other side. I was somewhere else. Someone else. And then he was gone, and I was thrown back into my little room. And now, no matter what I don, I can't seem to find that door."