Review: Poignant and Beautifully Done
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2014
Like so many readers of On Dublin Street, I loved Ellie and Adam and hoped book two would be theirs. I was surprised, and a little disappointed, when I learned their story would be a novella. But I was wrong. In hindsight, knowing that Adam and Ellie are together, happy and healthy, I didn't necessarily want the drama and angst a full-length novel would undoubtedly put them through.Until Fountain Bridge had the potential to be... sweet, yet boring. If Young had simply rehashed events through the couple's perspective, or created a bit of drama to give them a story, I would have liked it because I like Ellie and Adam. But to my happy delight, Until Fountain Bridge is told through Ellie's journal entries, chronicling how her love developed from an innocent crush to crushing love, throughout the years. The story weaves in and out of the present, giving us Adam's reactions to the revelations within the journal. It was poignant and beautiful and just a brilliant novella.Favorite Quotes:"It's painful to read how my stupidity hurt you at the time, but I like being inside your head. I like knowing that while I was struggling with the fact that I had fallen in love with my best friend's little sister, she loved me back more than I could ever hope to deserve.""Reading it all just reminded me how much we felt, how much we feel, and how much a part of us it is. It doesn't belong to anyone else and I guess I don't want it to. It's ours. Our history. Our story. And in a way our future too. As much as I love her, you're right. I can't give that to Joss. I can't give these to her."