glavreads's Reviews > All My Love

this is a very angsty, super emotional second chance romance and i see a lot of reviews criticizing it for being exactly that so if you’re not into that, skip this one but it delivered exactly what it was supposed to be.

all my love was giving sweet home alabama meets the notebook meets noah kahan and whaaaat a story 🥹

stella and riggins where childhood best friends turned lovers but due to a lot of circumstances and drama, haven’t seen each other in years. when riggins is back in their hometown and finds a secret stella had been keeping from him, he’s determined to see if they can get their spark back.

this story delivered so much - real, honest struggles that people go through and how that affects the people around us, a very raw and emotional love story, a found family who i really hope we get stories for, and so much more!!!!

******i’m including some mild spoilers below because i see some people misrepresenting this book a lot and i don’t like when people do that in reviews so spoiler warning******

ow drama: when they’re first seeing each other again, she lashes out at him for sleeping around and dating someone after they ended things. he says “what was i supposed to do?”

1. the person he dated was just a PR stunt
2. it comes out later in the book that he has his own reasons for being upset with her so once you finish, it was pretty obvious to me that it was just an angry reaction to say that
3. when you find out later in the story how he’s filled their time apart, it heavily implies he has NOT been with anybody else

the MMC struggles with substance abuse: that is just a major point of the story and a reason he made mistakes when they were together. i see people criticizing this and it’s so odd??? that’s a real thing people struggle with and it’s clearly stated at the beginning so criticizing the story for showing a character mess up because of his substance abuse is really stupid tbh.

the reviews saying he’s just living his best life during their time apart while her life sucks:

1. again ****SPOILER**** i don’t think getting sober and going to rehab is like living your best life so any reviews saying that are just straight up lying or they haven’t read the book.
2. he has his reasons for being upset with her. there’s a miscommunication that gets revealed but it’s not just “oh i’m back, let me grovel” because he thinks she has wronged him too. and it’s neither of their faults when it gets revealed so it wasn’t just him being a jerk and like leaving her in the dust just because.
3. her life kind of does suck. and a big part of that reason is because her growth in this story is asking for what she wants and standing up for herself.