Soulmates by Holly Bourne

Title: Soulmates

Author: Holly Bourne

Publisher: Usbourne

Pages: 544

Format: eBook

Source: bought

Every so often, two people are born who are the perfect matches for each other. Soulmates. But while the odds of this happening are about as likely as being struck by lightning, when these people do meet and fall in love…thunderstorms, lightning strikes and lashings of rain are only the beginning of their problems.

Enter Poppy, the 17-year-old cynic with a serious addiction to banana milk, and Noah, the heart-throb guitarist; residents of mediocre Middletown, sometime students, and…soulmates. 
After a chance meeting at a local band night, Poppy and Noah find themselves swept up in a whirlwind romance unlike anything they’ve ever experienced before. But with a secret international agency preparing to separate them, a trail of destruction rumbling in their wake, (and a looming psychology coursework deadline), they are left with an impossible choice between the end of the world, or a life without love… 

I love Holly Bourne. I have read all 4 of her books, and I love them all. She's an extremely talented author, and deserves so much more recognition for her work.

Anyway, so this book was really enjoyable. It was written in such a way that even the most cliche parts of it seemed original. I kind of picked this book up without written the blurb, so I had no idea what it was about. I was expecting some nice, gooey love story. And I got that, but it wasn't just that... It was a unique idea that had never occurred to me, the fact that soulmates might be earth shattering.

A character who I really liked is the main character, Poppy. She’s realistic, and has an actual personality, unlike some book characters. My favourite thing about her, though, is her obsession with clichés. She hates thinking that anything she does is a cliché, and gets a bit obsessive when she finds out her life is, in fact, a giant cliché. Something everyone could learn from Poppy, is to accept that things, good or bad, are happening, and to go along with it anyway. It took her a while to learn this lesson herself, but, with the help of Noah, she managed to learn it.

I character I disliked is one of Poppy’s best friends, Ruth. She wasn’t nice to anyone at all. She was absolutely horrid to Poppy after Poppy started going out with Noah. Ruth treated her boyfriend, Will, like he was invisible as she flirted with Noah, then acted all sweet to him once he said he could get her a backstage pass to her favourite band. She didn’t like anyone, no one liked her, and overall she was not needed in the story. There are so many lessons you could learn from Ruth, but the main one is definitely not to become friends with anyone like Ruth.

A significant theme in the story is definitely romance. The story is about the love between Poppy, the main character, and Noah, a guy from the badly named band “Growing Pains”. The entire plot line is based on the fact that them being together could potentially cause some world-ending damage.

This book gets 4 stars. It automatically gets 3 because it's by Holly Bourne, and it gets a extra for being amazing.

★★★★