This Book Will Change Your Life by Amanda Weaver Review
3.5 Smooches
Synopsis
Take a chance and change your life…
College was supposed to be where Hannah’s hard work paid off, but the major in honors chemistry she’s been working towards since childhood is slipping away. Worse, she’s not sure she wants it anymore. Salvation comes from an unlikely place—a used bookstore and Ben, the passionate college senior who works there.
Ben’s trapped in a life mapped out for him. Trapped in a future career as a lawyer to make his father happy. Trapped pursuing a girl he doesn’t even like because she fits into a world he doesn’t want, but can’t escape. But then he meets Hannah. And for the first time, he knows what it means to truly want something.
So he gives in to being her friend. Then to wanting her. Then to kissing her. And within the freedom of his impulsivity, both of their carefully planned lives begin to fall apart…
Review
“Glasses? Lord, cute boys in glasses are my kryptonite.”
This Book Will Change Your Life is my first book by Amanda Weaver and was a fun and light read in the New Adult genre. Hannah is a college freshman on the path to be a great chemist like her dad but when a rainstorm has her dating into a used bookstore she has no clue that that moment and the boy she meets, Ben, will alter the path of her future.
Ben is a senior in college and always has been a lover of books and when a drenched Hannah enters the store he works at it is clear that she is no reader. When she asks him for a recommendation on where to start reading a friendship is formed while Hannah slowly falls in love with books and the stories and characters within.
“This is the best sex I’ve ever had, and we’re not even having it yet.”
I fell in love with both Hannah and Ben from the start of this book and by the end was in love with them again but I honestly struggled with them in the middle. At times I found them quite repetitive in attempting to get past their struggles (or in actuality avoid their struggles) and would have loved to see them communicate better. While Hannah acted like a normal eighteen year old girl I still had a hard time with her jumping to conclusions and running from Ben whenever an issue arises. Ben was sweet but slow to get on the Hannah train but once he was I loved him. He didn’t always make the best decisions but the amount of pressure put on him would make anyone waiver.
Overall the book was an enjoyable standalone new adult read that was told from dual povs. I read the story straight through and never felt like I was forcing myself to continue. If you enjoy fast low ansgt reads with characters who have a passion for books that translates to every page than this is a book for you.
~miranda
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