Jill Santopolo The Light We Lost Review

The light we lost is a beautiful moving meditation on the choices we make in pursuit of love and a meaningful life and the consequences that shape our futures bethany chase author of the one that got away jill santopolo s debut is a breathless sexy sweeping love story set against the backdrop of the defining moment of this century.

Jill santopolo the light we lost review.

She holds a ba in english literature from columbia university an mfa in writing for children from the vermont college of fine arts and a certificate in intellectual property law from nyu. They re prompted to do something bigger with their lives because of it and live making selfish stupid decisions while not actually. Lucy and gabe meet and sparks fly on 9 11. She lives in new york city.

She is the new york times bestselling author of more than words and the light we lost a reese witherspoon book club pick. It s really difficult to give a book review without any spoilers because somehow this book has given me so much rage. Santopolo travels the world to speak about writing and storytelling. The light we lost by jill santopolo is just the opposite of the cliche love story that we are so familiar with.

And yes you read it right rage. Jill santopolo is the author of the the light we lost the alec flint mysteries the sparkle spa series and the follow your heart books. Is life a series of choices we make or is it fate unfolded. Jill santopolo s novel the light we lost is more than a novel of choices although it touches broadly on the road not taken and the constant wonder of what could have been santopolo s narrative crosses that border a transcendence into the memento amorem of a first love.

In love is there truly that one perfect person for everyone. I was going to write a massive rant about jill santopolo s the light we lost but i don t think this book deserves more time than i ve already given it. Lucy and gabe first meet as students at columbia university on september 11 2001. I was so angry at the main character lucy.