The One and Only Blog Tour (Summer Reading Challenge)

So for my 1st choice (and post) for the summer reading challenge, I picked The One and Only by Emily Giffin.

About the book:

Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas—a small college town that lives and dies by football, a passion she unabashedly shares. Raised alongside her best friend, Lucy, the daughter of Walker’s legendary head coach, Clive Carr, Shea was too devoted to her hometown team to leave. Instead she stayed in Walker for college, even taking a job in the university athletic department after graduation, where she has remained for more than a decade.

But when an unexpected tragedy strikes the tight-knit Walker community, Shea’s comfortable world is upended, and she begins to wonder if the life she’s chosen is really enough for her. As she finally gives up her safety net to set out on an unexpected path,Shea discovers unsettling truths about the people and things she has always trusted most—and is forced to confront her deepest desires, fears, and secrets.

Thoughtful, funny, and brilliantly observed, The One & Only is a luminous novel about finding your passion, following your heart, and, most of all, believing in something bigger than yourself . . . the one and only thing that truly makes life worth living

Praise for the Emily Giffin:

 

“Emily Giffin ranks as a grand master. . . . She has traversed the slippery slopes of true love, lost

love, marriage, motherhood, betrayal, forgiveness and redemption that have led her to be called ‘a modern-day Jane Austen.’ ”

—Chicago Sun-Times

 

“Giffin’s writing is true, smart, and heartfelt.”

—Entertainment Weekly

 

“[Giffin] excels at creating complex characters and quick-to-read stories that ask us to explore what we really want from our lives.”

—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

 

“A dependably down-to-earth, girl friendly storyteller.”

—The New York Times

 

“Giffin’s talent lies in taking relatable situations and injecting enough wit and suspense to make them feel fresh.”

—People

 

“When it comes to writing stories that resonate with real women, bestselling author Emily Giffin has hit her stride.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

 

Buy the book:

 

·Amazon Paperback:

http://amzn.to/1fhEo7N

 

·Amazon Kindle:

http://amzn.to/1i9jQUR

 

 

About the author:

 

Emily Giffin is the author of six New York Times bestselling novels:

Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Baby Proof, Love the One You’re With, Heart of the Matter, and Where We Belong. A graduate of Wake Forest University and the University of Virginia School of Law, she now lives in Atlanta lives with her husband and three young children.

 

Connect with the author:

 

·Facebook:

http://on.fb.me/QB2sME

 

·Twitter:

http://bit.ly/RGqbwf

 

·Website:

http://www.emilygiffin.com/

 

·Goodreads:

http://bit.ly/QsQvJi

 

 

My Review:

 

So this book sounded really interesting and good form the description on the book but I was very disapointed with this book. It was well written and had a good premise but for me it morphed form a good book to a book that made me say "what the heck why would somebody write this trash"? kind of book.

 

The characters were ok but I kind of really couldnt connect with any of them and didnt like any of them. The problem I think here is that mainly many of the situations or events in the book I didnt see actually happening in somebody's real life and some of the events that did I thought were very disgusting also. I would explain more about this last statement but I dont want to spoil the book for anybody who would like to read it. I mean I know that things like violence in a relationship can and do haappen (Shea experiencences this in the book) and I feel sorry for that, no one should ever go through that. What Im refering to here is that she gets invovled with another character romantically in the book and I didnt like that relationship and thought it was gross and basically it spoiled the whole book for me.

 

Also in the end I found this book rather boring and I found myself sorry that I had chosen this book.

 

I will make one positive comment I liked the cover I thought it was very cute and appealing but I dont understand the title choice either.

 

My final verdict:

I hate sports but like others every now and then I enjoy a good Football story, but sadly this wasnt one of those inspirational football stories and I would not recommend this book to anyone for what it is.

 

I would like to thank Janay from BookSparks PR for letting me read and review this book and also for letting me participate in the summer reading challenge! I cant wait to see what the challenge still has in store for me!