Author: Jennifer E. Smith
Publisher: Poppy/Little Brown
Published: January 2, 2012
Pages: 236, Paperback
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?-Goodreads
Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. Having missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row.
A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more?
Quirks of timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it.
I LOOOOVE this book. I think it's cute yet quirky.
Hadley Sullivan's father left her family when he went to Oxford to be a professor but met a woman and had an affair before he had a divorce. Hadley isn't ready to forgive or meet the woman who took away her father. Hadley is forced to go to England to go to the wedding of her father and a woman who she's never met but she had missed her plane by four minutes and is forced onto a later plane. As she's waiting for next plane and some other things had happened that caused her and Oliver to spent some time together waiting for the plane. While boarding the plane Oliver sat in the seat next to get 18B when his seat was 18C. They start chatting as passengers get on the plane and it was cute when the old lady let Oliver take her seat and she sat in 18C, thinking that Oliver and Hadley were a couple.
Oliver is an 18 year old British boy who goes to Yale. Through out the entire book Hadley tries to figure how Oliver's major and that is where the title came in:
She can hear the smile in his voice. "I'm doing my summer research project on different styles of dancing."
"So does that mean we'll be doing the tango next?"
"Only if you're up for it."
"What are you really studying?"
He leans back to look at her. "The statistical probability of love at first sight."
-page 235
He also has a past he isn't the most proud of and we learn what he was really doing in England.
Throughout the plane ride Oliver distracts Hadley and tries to make her feel better because of she's claustrophobic. When they both stand to use the restroom they have an intimate moment (and some other moments). >.< Anyway... They share a passion and both have some past that they have to move past and they do that for each other. Both have and had had family issues and flaws that brought them closer. They both just kept coming after each other.
They both end up in a way helping and fixing each other. Both accept each other for what's happened. The book teaches a lot about lost, hope, and love at first sight.
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