Swear on This Life - by Renée Carlino (Paperback)

Picture this: Your roommate gives you a new book to read & while you’re reading it you find out that the love of your life, who you haven’t spoken to in 12 years, wrote a bestselling novel about your painful childhood & heartbreaking love story! Definitely one of my new favorite romances. This book was everything. Read it in a day & couldn’t put it down. This is my second Renée Carlino book & loved both. This one was unique, being a story within a story, & I just loved it so much. The characters consumed me. It was nice to not only see the present chapters through Emiline’s POV but to also see the past chapters through Jase’s perspective, in his book ‘All the Roads Between’. Their story was so heartbreaking but also so beautiful. Jase & Em are the true definition of epic soul shattering love & they deserve the absolute world. Tears were definitely shed during this one, Jase’s banter had me chuckling out loud, on top of feeling so many other emotions!🥺 It had me hooked from the 1st page. Go read this one!! “Isn’t it weird that we had nothing at the time ... but somehow it felt like we had everything.”✨

I enjoyed this book, but I wouldn’t say it’s a favorite. As the book summary explains, the main character Emiline discovers that her childhood/teenage love wrote a book that covers their childhood and the young love they experienced from her perspective. So the book basically switches back and forth from her life now and her reading the book Jace wrote. I really enjoyed the sections when Emiline was reading the book rather than the actual book itself which is her life now. I also feel like Emiline and Jace aren’t really like the characters in the book he wrote about them. Jace was so sweet and kind to Emiline when they were younger but now just seems different in present time, so this threw me off a bit. Overall, I still enjoyed it and took about a day and a half to read. I honestly was hoping this book would be similar to Christina Lauren’s “Love and Other Words,” but it didn’t come anywhere close to it. This was also my first time reading a book from this author, but still recommend it as a weekend book.

By far the best book I’ve read in 2020! I read it in a day! It’s such a good book that even when it ended I wanted it to continue!! I hope to find more books like this one. Highly recommend.