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Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read this book to enable me to give an honest review.
This book is so sad and covers all avenues of grief, but also allows you to laugh at times. I wasn't drawn in straight away as the sudden loss seemed so rushed and I felt like not enough back story was given, however as you continue through the book, memories piece the story together.

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I Received An eBook Version Of This From @netgalley In Exchange For An Honest Review.

I Reckon I Love This Book! Chloe’s Story Is So Heartbreakingly Sad, But You Are Able To Also Laugh Along At The Funny Bits.

This Book Covers The Absolute Highs And Lows Of Life. Hayley Doyle Has Written It So Well, It’s Lovely But You Also Feel Like You Are Grieving Jack.

I Really Liked The Fact That It Wasn’t Your Typical Happy Ending. It Is An Ending With Purpose, Not Just Girl Gets Boy.

I Highly Recommend This Book, There Is More To It Than Meets The Eye.

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This book is special. It’s the kind of story I know I will think about for a long time.

Chloe and Jack’s time together is over before it really began. This is not your average love story but it’s definitely a story about love. Its unpredictable. Its emotional and it’s about moments we share with those we cherish. It’s also about healing and finding yourself and a future you can be happy with.

I cried a few times in this one. It made me pause and think about mortality, about family and about happiness. There’s a fantastic group of supporting characters that made it a really rich read. I absolutely loved it.

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I must be a sadist or something, reading this sad "made me cry" book during these trying times. Maybe it was because I loved the simple yet colourful cover too, I can't get enough of this cartoonish pieces of art and I am always attracted to books with these types of covers.

Love, Almost is heartbreaking, following Chloe's journey through loss and grief, and her inability to move on from her boyfriend, Jack...so she decides to complete a list she and Jack made and as she does so it leads her on a journey of discovery. The novel is quite hopeful in some ways too because it shows that death isn't the end of you, you can and will move on and the person who died never really leaves us. *sniff*

Whether you’re usually a fan of this type of novel or not I definitely think it’s worth checking out. It made me feel all the feels and to me that's worth All. The. Stars.

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The story follows a girl chloe and boy named jack who were living together and were in their late thirties. It has just been three months since they are together, and one morning Jack's dad comes to jack and chloe's appartment and tell her that he is no more.
Although, I enjoyed every moment readying this book and still at some points I could not connect with chloe.
But still I would recommend this book to everyone.

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This book is terribly sad and incredibly heartwarming at the same time. It’s very well written and a truly lovely story. Beautiful book

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Was too much like PS I love you for my liking. Didn't feel there was anything to make it feel original. Also really struggled to connect with the character - she seemed so immature and then to be reminded she was 36 was slightly confusing.

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Chloe and Jack have been together for five blissful months. They vacationed together, moved in together, and began planning the rest of their lives. Until one day, it all comes crashing down when Jack is killed in an accident. Chloe is left to pick up the pieces of their life together, left with a fridge full of reminders of what they had planned.

Love, Almost is an important story that explores the grief of losing someone very close to you. This book made me cry, but also made me laugh quite often. The main character, Chloe, seems very real and it is easy to find empathy for her as she navigates this hard journey. This is definitely a book to be on the look out for!

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Well, after reading reviews from other readers, I must be crazy. The book is OK, but it was not for me.
I don't know what happened. I found the story a little bit slow, honestly. I didn't connect with Chloe. And everyone's attitude, people around her, was disappointing.
I reckon that in another moment of my life, I would have found this book to be fantastic. But not now. Sorry.

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Chloe and Jack have experienced a whirlwind romance, five months of love and then it’s gone. Chloe then tries to find the real reason they were in love and deal with her grief.
Whilst this will appeal to many, I struggled to get into it and it wasn’t the right book for me.
Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for this arc in exchange for my honest review.

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I loved this book. Its an emotional but uplifting story which had me in tears .I look forward to reading more from Hayley

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“I reckon I love you, Chloe Roscoe.”

Chloe Roscoe is head over heels for her new boyfriend, Jack Carmichael. However, their sure to be love-story, is tragically cut short when Jack is killed in an accident. Chloe is devastated and isn’t sure how to move on with Jack so abruptly ripped from her life. They had recently moved in together and things were just beginning to unfold for them. Chloe finds herself in an awkward space of not really knowing Jack fully but fully knowing she loved him with all of her being. She can’t seem to find a place to fit in, with him gone. She finds out his family and some friends didn’t even know about her. She attends his funeral and the picture that is painted of him, isn’t the Jack she knew. In an attempt to quell her pain and try and find some peace, she sets out to check off some of their to-do’s, without him. Will she find what she needs? What is life without Jack? Can she learn to move on and lovingly leave him in her past?

This was a good story about having your life take an abrupt, unexpected turn and learning how to rebuild, brick by brick. A story of how the most earth shattering thing can happen, but the world keeps turning and you must find a way to go on. And sometimes, even in the darkness, you can find some rays of sunshine that get you through to the next ray of sunshine, until you are fully in the light, again. I thought it was going to have a more romantic side to it than it ended up having, but I actually enjoyed how it all turned out. I really liked Chloe and felt connected to her. The other characters weren’t as developed but they were all complimentary to the story. I would definitely recommend this read and will be looking for more books by this author.

Thank you to NetGalley & Avon Books UK for the opportunity to read an ARC of this book. I wholeheartedly enjoyed it!

“I reckon I love you, Jack Carmichael.”

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This sweet, sad romance hit the spot on a cold fall day. Chloe is desperately in puppy love with her new boyfriend and dreams of spending her life with him.... when he dies. Her bags aren’t even unpacked yet. She spends the rest of the novel attempting to derive meaning from their relationship- and her own life. This book reminded me a lot of “In Another Life” and “The Next Five Years.” Thanks to netgalley and Avon Books UK for the ARC!

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Love Almost is a story about grief and what could have beens.

Chloe and Jack haven't been together for long. Chloe practically just moved into his London flat with him after they had had a long-distance relationship for some time. She hasn't even met his parents yet, but that changes one Friday evening after work. Jack's father has devastating news, Jack is dead.

It was a rather slow read for me and I kept waiting for something special to happen. I skimmed after about 30%.

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Love, Almost by Hayley Doyle a devastating five-star read. I have just finished another emotional read and then wasn’t sure if I should start this one as I didn’t know if I had any more tears in me, but I am so glad I did. I don’t know if it was that my husband moved from Liverpool to live and marry me after we had only been dating a short couple of months, so I could imagine what he would have felt if he had lost me like Chloe loses her Jack, I could understand the depth of her love in such a short time span, you don’t spend much time together physically but you do emotionally. I had a similar relationship years ago, very intense and passionate and then suddenly gone and you do feel lost, you haven’t known them since school, or all of their life so everyone who has looks at you with incredulity like your grief isn’t as powerful as theirs even though you feel it is. Maybe I identified with Chloe too deeply, but this story consumed me and was just what I needed as I have honestly been in a horrid slump in our second lockdown in Wales, and even though this second one is short, there is no clear end coming and I was having a wobble, watching Chloe through her voyage gave me a sense of peace, how was I feeling so wobbly when I haven’t lost the love of my life, next year will come soon and life will be back to a more normal way, but when you lose someone life does go back, but it’s never truly normal. Maybe it was the northernisms of this story that added an extra layer to me, as I may have been here for years, but I’m still a northern lass at heart. I know that some people wont enjoy this story, but for me it is easily one of the best I have read this year.

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I loved this book so much! It was a bit of a slow starter but the persistence was worth it in the end.
After the first few chapters I just couldn't put it down and flew through it.
Every character although to a point extreme in their traits is so relatable too!

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Such a cute and fun read! Perfect distraction in life right now. Really enjoyable characters and story and hard to put down! Really really cute!

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Anything that smells romcom is definitely ending up on my TBR because I am a sucker for everything love .Huge thanks to Avon Books for hooking a girl up. Firstly having to read this book shows that I am such an adult and likely to have cried because it hit me in the feels. It tells the story of Chloe and Jack this lovely couple that is hit by such a tragedy after only 5 months of dating. How does one move on and find peace ,love and comfort when someone you love is gone. This book was written so well and I am definitely grateful that I got to read it. Did I cry? Of course but lesson I took is love people while they still here

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As I was already a big fan of Hayley Doyle, I was really looking forward to reading this book. It is so cleverly written that I felt like there were times throughout the book that I felt I was there with Chloe. I understand how grief can make you sometimes make silly decisions such as jetting off to Thailand by yourself! But we were with her every step of the way! I also understand that no matter how long you have known someone, after they have passed away it can make you question many things, including how well you knew them after all and what their wishes would have been. I think Chloe’s character is very true to life and was heartfelt. I just wish I knew what happened next with Layla’s dad! I feel Chloe deserved a happy ending!

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Love, Almost is a story about love, loss and trying to move on with your life. Chloe and Jack are in love when Jack suddenly dies in an accident which leaves Chloe living in a fog with her grief. But is it from the loss of the love they had or what might have been. Chloe struggles with this because their relationship was only 5 months old and she is overwhelmed by what ifs. To help cope and move on she starts to check off a to-do list of everything she and Jack were planning to do. This is a heartwarming story that depicts one woman’s struggle to cope with the hardballs life throws at you and move on after a devastating loss and realize life does go on.

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