Book Review: The Hundred Loves Of Juliet by Evelyn Skye

April, 10, 2024

I need to start this review by saying that I am not a huge romance novel fan, and so everything I say should be looked through the lens of someone who does not, generality speaking, enjoy herself a romance novel.

This was delightfully cheesy. While I cannot say that I enjoyed the whole book, I do feel like I suggest it. It was cheesy and romantic and high school me would have cried over this book thinking of Eli (my now husband, but at the time I was just pining over him) thinking the he was the Romeo to my Juliet.

This book starts out when Helene is going through a nasty break up with a real piece of work named Merrick. He is unfaithful, self centered and emotionally abusive. She finally runs away from him and leaves her whole life to start over in Alaska where she thinks she will be able to focus on writing the novel she has been dreaming about her whole life. This is where she runs in to the man that she has been setting as the romantic lead in all of her stories, Sebastian. When they meet, she knows instantly that this is the man that she has been dreaming about her whole life. She even had his mannerisms down, which is just a weird coincidence, right? Wrong. We quickly learn that Sebastian knows her too, but how?

This story was written by an author faced with the loss of her great, forever love, and you can tell that it is a love letter to him. It very much reads as a “I will love you in every lifetime” kind of tale, and while it was delightfully romantic, it is also a hard thing to think about. I am also just coming off of watching the Twin Flames documentary and feeling a little icky about having one true love that you are meant to be with and without this person your life is simply incomplete. This all to be said, at the time of the book being published, Skye’s ill husband is still alive.

Another thing about this author is that she is the writer of the book that the movie Damsel is based on. Which is crazy! She is doing great things right now.

Anyway, this review is a little scatterbrained, but I do suggest this book!