Consider Yourself Kissed, Jessica Stanley
Consider Yourself Kissed is a tale told over ten years of Coralie’s life, beginning when she meets Adam and quickly finds herself at the centre of a growing family. Although it is described as a literary love story, it can also be classified under ‘realistic romcom’. Impressively, it maintains a lightheartedness at its core, despite also being painfully realistic and uncomfortably relatable.
While there are many accounts of finding love, it is much rarer to come across such delicately woven stories about the complexity of maintaining love. Consider Yourself Kissed manages to do exactly that. It ties the reader to itself at the very beginning of Coralie and Adam’s relationship, just as a more traditional love story might, but soon it blooms into something more, something both less familiar and instantly recognisable.
The genius of this story is in how it combines beautiful and hopeful storytelling with the everyday struggles of real life that often get overlooked in love stories. It is also smartly set during a very specific decade in London, placing it firmly in the sections of our brains reserved for events we remember personally rather than those we have observed from afar.
Consider Yourself Kissed is a book for everyone who finds, or wants to get better at finding, the beauty in everyday life.
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