Awesome read. It was amazing. Story was pleasantly surprising. Exceptional writing. Loved everything about it.

Emersyn Park’s book “He Loves Me She Loves Me Not” grabbed my full attention by the end of the short but intriguing prologue. Very few books have the ability to gain a level of interest so quickly in a book, at least in my experience.
Lily is a daughter any mother would be proud of, but Lily’s Mother, Daisy, is as amoral as Lily is pure.
I won’t lie, this book is quite disturbing as Daisy’s full nature and way of life are slowly revealed painfully, shockingly and methodically by Lily as she reads her Mother’s diaries. The tension between Mother and Daughter is palpable, whilst Lily adores, and is adored by her Father in return.
Overall this book is intelligently written and I’ll most certainly be looking for more books by Emersyn Park.
A Highly Recommended read for Adults.

The story itself was interesting, and I read the entire book hoping for more explanations. There were several plot points that I felt were explained far before Lily understood them, which made them seem less monumental when they were realized by her.

Even Lily was a hard character to root for. It genuinely seemed that every man except Ben was either a predator or an oblivious fool, and every woman except Lily was either a caricature of a “harlot” or a holier-than-thou wife. The women side characters had more dimension, but even they were only afforded that by being victims themselves. Even Lily became fairly one-dimensional in that her only care was for revenge on her mother that eventually transformed only because she felt there was no other option.

The assaults and violence felt gratuitous and seemed to be the only source of character “growth” or change for any of the women in the story.

Overall, this was a very interesting concept and the backstory was truly fascinating, but it felt overwhelmed by the narrator’s (both Lily and Daisy)needs to put everyone in a box of either “evil” or “pure” to the point where none of the main characters seemed like real people anymore.

He Loves Me, She Loves Me Not by Emersyn Park. BooksGoSocial, 2021.

This is a tragic, multi-layered, plausible story about Daisy and her daughter Lily. Each is suffering from adverse heredity and negative environments in ways that don’t become clear until the end.
It is not a horror story, but there are elements that are truly horrible.

Writing, character development and plot are all excellent. I found it impossible to put down.
When I finished it, I closed the book and said “whew”. This is a book is a rare one that I will continue to think about for a long time.

Disclosure: I received a review copy of He Loves Me, She Loves Me Not for free via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. #HeLovesMeSheLovesMeNot #NetGalley.

I liked the prose overall, it really started to grab my attention at the end of chapter one and held it for most of the book. Some of the story didn't make sense, and some things were left unanswered. I would've stayed up the whole night to tear through the diaries, I would need to get to the answers I needed. Some of the journal entries either added nothing to the story or repeated things that had already been said. I think the later chapters dragged, and didn't properly handle the resolution of the big problem that had developed. It also strayed from the original ideas that I thought this book was going to tackle. In the end, it felt like the resolution was rushed while the ending was dragging. And some of the things that the main character didn't realise would have been obvious with a little thought. Overall I liked the story, some of the characters and most of plot.