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Love From London: The Principles of Love

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For our third encounter with Love Bukowski, we gladly join her as she travels across the pond to spend a term studying abroad in London. As we were in The Principles of Love and Piece, Love, & Happiness, we are drawn in by her intelligent and insightful writing, her exciting and adventurous experiences, and her intriguing and fascinating acquaintances.

Although it can be an enjoyable and entertaining read on its own, I recommend that Love from London be read in the context of not only books one and two (mentioned above) but of the books to come.

In The Principles of Love series, Emily Franklin has written a story that is never boring, populating it with characters who grab your interest. I can't wait to find out how all the pieces fit together for Love!

This is the best book so far in the Love series! It's fairly obvious from the title, but Love Bukowski heads to London for a semester with her friend Arabella (you meet her in Piece, Love, and Happiness). Love experiences a whole new world, meets new friends, deals with campus life there, and finds out the mystery of Arabella's family. Like the other books, this one made me laugh, think, and really want to know what happens next.

The spirit is the same in yet another installment of Emily Franklin's fantastic Principles of Love series, but something's just a bit off about this one. While the new hints about Love's mother are certainly intriguing, they were the best part of the book. Love predictably gets another guy, and as well-developed as a character he is, in the end, he's just another one of Love's revolving door of random guys. Love's snobbish side seems to come out full-force in this one and it just wasn't the same. Something was just off, different about this book. It was annoying, really, since it's a series and one book shouldn't stick out as different from the rest of the series, but that's what this book does. Maybe if it were a stand-alone, or a companion novel, it wouldn't feel like filler. Who knows, maybe some of the filler plays a significant part in the other books and was necessary, but something tells me that isn't the case. Looking forward to obtaining All You Need is Love!

Rating: 3/5

I found myself a little disappointed in this third book in the 'Principles of Love' series. The first two were better than this one.
It just seemed to me that in 'Love From London' not much happens except that she's in a new city and kisses a guy she likes. Hopefully the third book coming out in the fall will pick up a little bit to make up for this one.