A Way Back Into Love (Love, #1) by Veronica Thatcher

**I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

 A Way Back Into Love (Love, #1) by Veronica Thatcher, is the story of school besties Emily Stevens and Derek Thorpe. The story starts from Emily and Derek’s confusion over their friendship. They are both mutually attracted but worried whether or not to declare their love. Very few pages and they end up spending their night together, while this should have sealed their relationship as love, what follows is a disaster. Story moves forward to five years after the night and we find Emily coming back to the town as an intern.

What happened that night, why did things fall apart and is there a way back into love forms the rest of the story. The main theme seems to be the confusion shrouding the lead characters, and so every now and then they drag the reader back in to chaos. The writing is in third person, and the reader is torn between Emily and Derek, sometimes Emily seems to be using Derek’s emotions for her, while sometimes Derek seems controlling Emily’s life, until we come to know what exactly happened that night and why things got messed up. There are brief glimpses into their past too, while some were interesting, a few were drags.

For a debut novel the writing style is pretty good and keeps the predictable story-line interesting, every now and then things seem to fall in place and as you relax something else crops up. But at around 85% the story is over, the remaining feels like fillers. The supporting characters make sudden entries and disappearances. Also I feel the main characters lack depth and probably a first person narrative, alternating between Emily and Derek, would have added to their characterization and kept it more interesting.