The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight is a love story written by Jennifer E. Smith and published in 2012. She has also written This Is What Happy Looks Like, The Storm Makers, You Are Here and The Comeback Season.
The genre of the book is ”young adult” but what I think is that it can be read by anyone who likes love stories, not depending on one’s age. I don’t usually read love stories, but I wanted something that would be simple and quick to read. First I though that The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight would be a sugary sweet, basic love story with no deeper thoughts. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
”Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?” Hadley is a seventeen-year-old girl who misses her flight to London. Her father is getting married to a woman which Hadley has never even met. At the airport Hadley meets Oliver, cute and tall British boy. Turns out that he is on Hadley’s new flight, sitting on her row. Long flight goes by in a blink of an eye, but upon the arrival Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other.
Hadley, the main character in the book, is a little insecure and sarcastic. She is struggling to figure out how to function when her dad gets married again, and how to forgive him for moving to London and abandoning her and her mom. I liked Hadley as a character, because she is easily compared to myself. Not some unrealistic and perfect girl that many love novels seem to have as a protagonist.
Romance between Hadley and Oliver should be the main point in the book, but actually it seems to be Hadley forgiving her father and a reminder that nothing last forever, but we all have a second chance. Also, the I think that the book was ment to be hopegiving, when I actually felt a little sad after reading it.