Book Review : 'Who Do You Love' by Jennifer Weiner

My Rating

Book Name : Who Do You Love
Author : Jennifer Weiner
Genre : Fiction

Blurb : Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are eight years old when they meet late one night in an ER waiting room. Born with a congenital heart defect, Rachel is a veteran of hospitals, and she's intrigued by the boy who shows up all alone with a broken arm. He tells her his name. She tells him a story. After Andy's taken back to the emergency room and Rachel's sent back to her bed, they think they'll never see each other again.
Rachel, the beloved, popular, and protected daughter of two doting parents, grows up wanting for nothing in a fancy Florida suburb. Andy grows up poor in Philadelphia with a single mom and a rare talent that will let him become one of the best runners of his generation.
Over the course of three decades, through high school and college, marriages and divorces, from the pinnacles of victory and the heartbreak of defeat, Andy and Rachel will find each other again and again, until they are finally given a chance to decide whether love can surmount difference and distance and if they've been running toward each other all along.
With honesty, wit, and clear-eyed observations about men and women, love and fate, and the truth about happy endings, Jennifer Weiner delivers two of her most memorable characters, and a love story you'll never forget.

Book from my eyes:
'Who do you love' is a novel about two childhood sweethearts, Rachel and Andrew, met first time at a hospital at an age of 8 years, one with a broken heart(as the author has picturised the hole of Rachel's heart) and other with a broken hand, became friends in no time and shared some special childish moments. As happens to every patient in any hospital, they went apart from each other with no contacts to meet again after another 9 years. Slowly, they became sole mates over decades. The love between Andrew and Rachel has been crafted so nicely that everyone, at least every girl, will definitely dream of having the same love story as them. But as life is never a bed of roses; things started falling apart from Andrew and Rachel as well. Their priorities changed and misunderstanding created a wall between them, throwing each other away. Again sooner or later the cloud vanishes and they again unite and over multiple break ups and patch ups, finally to come to an 'All's well that ends well' end.
In parallel to the love story, the book has also fabricated the rise of a young boy through all thick and thins and making it a grand to Olympics and the fall from the top.

Thumbs Up:

• Though the novel is another love story but not a very normal one. It has been crafted very nicely. The love story of a rich girl and a poor boy is an eternal thing, but the author has been successful to give it a new dimension and been successful in keeping intact it until the end.
• The rise of Andrew from being 'Zero to Hero' and falling from being 'Hero to Zero' along with the mills and boons which come as parcel of this journey, has been written flawlessly.
• A man's psychology behind every extra-marital affair or cheating seemed to be so real; I personally could feel that I am going through the same.
• Last but not the least, the book cover is too perfect. When I picked the book, I didn't like the cover but then along with the story, when I learnt the meaning of book cover, I am sure nothing could have been a better cover for this book.

Thumbs Down:

• First few chapters seemed to be too prolonged and dragged. Prologue didn't add any value to the story.
• The twist about Andrew's father was barely needed as it didn't add any value to the story than increasing couple of page. So were few details about Mr. Sill and Rachel's job and sorority.

Verdict : This book is a decent read and the happy ending definitely adds feel good factor upon finishing the same.