Hmmm...One Day is a good book on the whole I suppose. It's well written, it's engaging, it's surprising. It's also cheesy and cliched. Boy meets girl, boy not bothered, enter friend zone, girl head over heels, years go by, boy starts to appreciate girl....mustn't spoil the ending. Without being sexist about it, possibly one of the most interesting aspects of One Day is the fact that the author is male. I always find male attempts to capture female dispositions interesting. Nicholls doesn't do a bad job. Emma is very average, easy to relate to and likeable. Dexter on the other hand is the typical player. The Willoughby who finds redemption. We experience joy in both characters' triumphs and sorrow at their downfalls, which is the idea I suppose. Love stories tend not to be anything new and to be brutally honest, One Day is no exception. Though the style of documenting a particular day (15th of July, St. Swithin's Day) in the characters' lives each year is refreshing, it can also interrupt the flow of the book and leave everything feeling disrupted and undeveloped. The dialogue is praiseworthy however and on the whole, One Day is worth reading if you're into romances. I've yet to see the film adaptation starring Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway, but I've heard good things about it, despite Hathaway's alleged murderous attempt at an English accent.
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