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Because that means you’ve not done anything you cared about. I know that the two books can’t be the same but because How Hard Can Love Be? wasn’t as captivating, this ended up being a stop-start-stop read. I didn’t find it as captivating as Evie’s story what was so good about it was that it was the truest representation of someone with OCD and it was raw and eye-opening. I was utterly impressed with Am I Normal Yet? and as soon as I had finished it, I ordered How Hard Can Love Be? Holly Bourne has got the type of writing style where it’s chatty like you already know the characters before you read about them yet her way of describing characters, settings and emotions are mesmerising. Will he notice Amber? A girl who is a die-hard feminist and definitely not a captain of the cheerleading team? Fact: love is hard. Then there’s a guy: Kyle who all the girls want because of his ‘prom-king’ looks.

Whilst on the way to California to work at a summer camp with her Mom and her Mom’s new husband, Amber’s hoping that spending a whole summer with her is going to change that that it’s going to change her and her Mom’s relationship for the better. She knows she has her two amazing best friends but her Mom moved to California, got remarried and doesn’t acknowledge Amber’s existence. How Hard Can Love Be? follows the story of Amber and how hard and painful – and amazing – love can actually be.Īmber just wants to be loved by anyone. Lottie, Evie, and Amber are three feminist friends who face down the tough issues of life with the help of their friendship and their feminist jokes about the patriarchal society. I’m a massive fan of Holly Bourne’s writing every book that she has written, I have read, and every book that I have read, I have enjoyed.

How hard can love be by holly bourne