“Everyone should be so lucky to marry their soul mate”Love Unfinished starts with Carol and Ted, who later become Emma and James. It starts with the year 1946, when the two had just met, and then skips to 1954, 8 years later to their wedding, which is where everything goes wrong.Carol and Ted are both sent to different ‘waiting rooms’, separated, awaiting to fulfil their souls destiny, where is how they both end up as Emma and James, put back on earth to find each other and finish their lives together.Fast forward to 1992, and Emma has been married for 8 years to a guy called Craig. You can tell she’s not happy – her marriage is more like a business partnership and Emma just wants marriage filled of love, not one where they act like strangers. Craig is a manipulative, emotionally and physically abusive bully and I actually really disliked him from the start. All he’s worried about is his reputation, and uses Emma to get him where he wants to be making her a puppet of everything she doesn’t want to be.The first time Emma meets James, she feels this attraction to him and its like she’s met him before then the second time they meet, they dance and it’s like love at first sight but when she mentions who she is, he walk away and she hasn’t seen him since – she feels her marriage is a burden because she feels something with James and she has just lost him before getting to know him.I loved the friendship with Olivia. Olivia looked out for Emma, wanting and waiting patiently for ‘spunky’ Emma to return and leave Craig. She hated him and did everything she could to damage his reputation. It was brilliant to read her plans regarding Craig.Prudence, the maid, was amazing to Emma. Helping her out when Craig went mental, helping her with her plan and just generally being there for her. She loves Emma telling her about her visits to James and she’s basically a best friend for Emma. She says about James: “You think this guy was something special right? If life gives you a chance at something, you just gotta take it you know.”James. What can I say about James? Well, he’s swoon worthy, totally in love with Emma, even though they don’t know each other and it just feels natural to be together, but he has no idea why. His and Emma’s relationship pulled at my heart strings. You really saw the love he had for Emma, although they hardly knew each other and you just wanted Emma to leave her husband and be with him, where she would be loved and safe and that’s exactly what she is when she’s with him.So much happens during this book and you really feel for Emma. She wants to leave her abusive husband to go to James, but it takes some doing and help from Olivia and Edward (the butler) who have sabotaged Craig’s live and reputation, which was so great to finally read as he had it coming all throughout the book.I have to admit, I cried reading the part in the waiting room at the start of the book. Carol was so frantic and when told by her Grandma she had to find Ted again, it broke my heart because she just wanted to be with him now and was so afraid that he wouldn’t remember her and I also cried at the end too, especially at the kids names and the waiting room area again.The only problem I would say is that at the end, I was confused over the time span, as it kept jumping but other than that, I freaking loved this book. Seriously, if books make me cry, they are good in my eyes and I would love for it to be made into a movie or something. I would definitely go see it numerous times! This is a book about two young people who fall in love in the late 1940s, marry in 1954 only to die on their wedding day. Then are told that they must find each other again in their new life and finish their love. Fast forward some years to Emma trapped in a loveless marriage to a creep of a guy running for political office. Emma attends a wifely responsibility of an auction and runs into a man that is familiar to her and he feels the pull as well... some time passes and they see each other at another function and again, that spark of familiarity surfaces... meanwhile the jerk of a husband becomes abusive as Emma begins to question her future. As well, her best friend and then her butler scheme to ruin her husband and get her out unscathed. I honestly did not feel connected to any of the characters in this book, but I finished it because I had to know how the creep of a husband ended up.Honestly, I probably would have read this book years ago and loved it and raved over it, but compared to other reads of late and other interests... it's just not up to my par. However, with that said... if you want something to occupy your time and nothing else loads on your kindle, nook, laptop, or phone... maybe this story will pique your interest.
What do You think about Love Unfinished (2000)?
unfinished. just like the title. terrible editing and dialogue.
—maurice
A very different love story that does not disappoint!
—12535
