Someone To Love - Melissa De La Cruz Review

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This book had been sitting on my Goodreads TBR for quite a while and I couldn't wait to get my hands on a copy. Some of my favourite books have been written by Melissa De La Cruz and while not all of her books are 5 stars for me I still plan on reading all her books.

I received an advanced readers copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to the lovely people at HQ who sent me a copy to review. I gave this book 4 out of 5 stars.

I honestly had no idea what this book was about before I started, just that it was written by Melissa De La Cruz and that I had to read it.

Olivia is a politician's daughter who struggles with bulimia, self doubt and her parents high expectations. She believes she is a social outcast with only two friends but things soon change when she manages to get herself invited to the party of the year in the hopes of meeting her art idol but instead catches the eye of the hottest guy in school.

Things are going great for Liv for a while but soon things spiral out of control and she finds that the people you need in your life are the ones you pushed away and that loving yourself is more important than anything else.

Trigger warning for anyone reading this book. This book deals with bulimia, self harm, excessive drinking and drug use.  If you feel you would have a tough time reading about any of those topics, particularly bulimia, then I would give this a miss as it was quite hard to read at times and the core of this book focuses on it. My heart went out to Liv and I wished I could give her a hug at times.

One of my favourite things about this novel was that it mentions characters from one of my favourite Melissa De La Cruz novels, I loved being able to see little snippets into their lives.

I also really enjoyed reading about Olivia's love of art and wished there was pictures of the art in the book.

Overall this was a good book and definitely worth the read.

This book will be released on the 1st December 2018 and you can get yourself a copy here.

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