{"id":3031,"date":"2025-05-27T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2025-05-27T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T05:05:00","slug":"before-we-were-strangers-by-renee-carlino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=3031","title":{"rendered":"Before We Were Strangers by Renee Carlino"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before We Were Strangers<\/strong> by Ren\u00e9e Carlino<\/a>
on August 18, 2015
Genres:<\/strong> Fiction \/ Romance \/ Contemporary<\/a>, Fiction \/ Romance \/ General<\/a>, Fiction \/ Romance \/ New Adult<\/a>, Fiction \/ Women<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 320
Format:<\/strong> eBook<\/a>, Paperback<\/a>
Buy on Amazon<\/a>
Goodreads<\/a> <\/p>\n

To the Green-eyed Lovebird:
We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House.
You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more.
We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn\u2019t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other.
Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding\u2026
I didn\u2019t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn\u2019t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello.
After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I\u2019ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half?
-M<\/p>\n

This is a novel is a love story about a Craigslist \u201cmissed connection\u201d post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. I do not say this lightly\u2026 This is one of the best contemporary books I\u2019ve ever read. If you know me, then you know contemporary is my least favorite genre. There are some thing I\u2019d like to clear up right away though. This isn\u2019t an action packed book with a massive slap you plot twist, and for some reason it is classified in the YA section of the book store. This novel is simply what it says it is, a sweet feel good read, which is one of it\u2019s best qualities. Was easily one of the best books I would recommend. They\u2019re relationship y\u2019all, is perfection. It feels so real. You will really feel like you\u2019re going through everything with them. They\u2019re ups and downs will feel like yours. You will be experiencing all the emotions and pain right along with them, and it\u2019s flipping fantastic. The way these two feed off each other is amazing.<\/p>\n

Five wonderful starts for this novel. I definitely under estimated how much this book was going to effect me. A book I simply thought would be a fill-in read till I figured out what I wanted to really dive into next. Turned out to be a huge punch to my heart. Anything that might be considered a \u201cflaw\u201d is wiped away by the pure beauty of Carlino\u2019s writing and by the way she will pull you into this love story.<\/p>\n

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Before We Were Strangers by Ren\u00e9e Carlino on August 18, 2015 Genres: Fiction \/ Romance \/ Contemporary, Fiction \/ Romance \/ General, Fiction \/ Romance \/ New Adult, Fiction \/ Women Pages: 320 Format: eBook, Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads To the Green-eyed Lovebird:We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}