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 I needed to LITERALLY stop sighing of happiness in order to come on here and start this review. Can I start this review? I will make a blubbering mess of it, guaranteed. 
 Someone Else's Love Story 
 is, hands down, in the top 3 BEST BOOKS I've read this year. Possibly ever. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I want to tell you why it was amazing, let me tell you why: 
 THE WRITING. The effortless, beautiful, all-consuming wonder of the words that traveled from Joshilyn's brain, to her fingertips, to every.single.page: 
 "No one had yet proved the existence of human pheromones, but William became certain of them. There was no other explanation for his reaction to her solitary joy as she destroyed the park to raise it, to the way the basic shape and smell and sound of her undid him; she was indefinably correct for him. He knew it on the cellular level." 
 ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Do those words sear your heart in the most intensely wonderful way, as they did mine? Imagine that feeling throughout 352 pages. 
 I wish everyone got it, I wish every single author knew what this author so obviously knew: your characters need to know each other. Even before they arrived in your head, they need to have existed in each others lives for years, and years. They need to star in your book like you've asked them to just show up, and be completely themselves. That's exactly what it felt like while reading 
 Someone Else's Love Story 
 . From the very first scene, which gathered Shandi, her son Natty, her best friend Walcott, and her mother. No introductions were made, everyone just continued as they were..and it was PERFECTION. The dialogue was SO REAL, and SO natural that I felt like I could have gotten up from my bed, and walked right into their house. The dialogue between Shandi and Walcott, William and Paula..my GOD, you can't teach someone to write dialogue like that. You either have it, or you don't. And Joshilyn Jackson HAS IT, my GOD does she have it. 
 I wish I could get over the writing enough to tell you that the story line within 
 Someone Else's Love Story 
 was equally as spectacular. Because it was, and there wasn't a single thing I would have wanted to read differently. Have you ever been reading a story, and it gets to a part, and you think to yourself: "Oh man, I really hope THIS happens, that would be perfect." But then it doesn't, and you're not really given something else, but instead, a whole HEAP of ambiguity? Yeah? Me too, and it FRUSTRATES me to NO end. If that's something you hate, well 
 Someone Else's Love Story 
 is something you will LOVE. Everything that I hoped would happen in this book, HAPPENED. I have NEVER been more satisfied with a narrative the way this book satisfied me. I wish I could type this entire paragraph in capslock. MORE FEELINGS! I can't be coherent right now. I thought giving it a few days would help me settle my thoughts, but I can't. Every time I think of this book I want to smile the smile to beat all smiles. 
 The content in 
 Someone Else's Love Story 
 may lean a little too far into the controversial side of things for some readers, but for ye of open minds, you will find gold in here. I thought the author approached the topic of rape in a smart way, in a 
 fair 
 way. I may take heat for this, but I feel like the issue of assault is one that many people can only view as black and white. Gray areas are shunned, and sometimes the truth is pushed so far back that no one bothers to look for it anymore. Joshilyn Jackson didn't let that happen in this book, she explored, and she let us explore with her-which I completely respected her for. I thought the conclusion of this book was done incredibly well, and wholly satisfied the romantic in me. 
 If you're in the mood for something real, something that has the potential to be completely relatable, please go pick up Someone Else's Love Story. Then come back to my review and tell me how right I was..go on..do it. 
 Recommended for Fans of: Rainbow Rowell's dialogue, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Controversial Issues, Romance. 
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 *DISCLAIMER* I received this book as a print copy from the publisher, in order to participate in the blog tour