Things I know About Love

By: Kate Le Vann, 153 pp

Livia Stowe has been diagnosed with leukemia at age 15. However, she has been well for a year now. The doctor suggest that she still take it easy. Livia wants to go to Princeton, NJ to visit her brother, Jeff, while he is on vacation for the summer. She is now 17 - almost 18 - and wants to go even though her mother says no. Livia's persistence pays off and her mother gives in.

While in Princeton, Livia meets Adam all over again. Adam is from their hometown and is going to Princeton with Jeff. Adam and Livia fall for each other and go to New York together! Livia "fancies" Adam, but she is afraid of rejection and heartache again. Should she tell him she has been ill to almost dying in the past? Would Adam be like her previous boyfriends? Or will he be different and actually care about her?

"Things I Know About Love" is written as Livia's and Adam's blogs. So we get to read both sides of their relationship through their private blogs.

I really like how this book is written by an author from Yorkshire, England and we Americans are foreign in the book. Also I adore how Le Vann uses words, such as fancy, mum, snogging, and flat. It is different and makes the story more interesting.