The Art That True Love Seeks
Review by: Judy Lee
Walter, Eric. The Art Of Picking Up Girls. Ontario: Penguin Group, 2016. Print.
This is not only a guide on how to pick up girls, but a book that explores what true love really is. Eric Walters transforms a basic romance plot to a whole new level with a twist in the middle and makes the audience curious to what is going to happen next, and a heartwarming ending that is impossible to fault.
Graham Fox, wants to get over a breakup, and Ethan Frost helps his friend though this breakup. Graham is a new arrival to the town and must start everything fresh, new friends, new school and especially new personality. When Ethan approaches Graham as a heartbroken friend, he wants to teach him the way to get girls and not get his heart broken again. Graham is blinded by his heartbreak so he follows along, not even realizing that what he is doing is wrong. He follows everything that Ethan is doing and he thinks he is doing the right thing because he is not the one that ends up hurt. As he becomes better and better, he and Ethan try their technique on a new set of girls. Little does Graham know, that one girl would be the one that challenges him on everything that Ethan taught him.
Graham just wants to get over his heartbreak, but instead, he became a totally new person with a new personality. Graham was one who thought true love is everything he wanted and he will only date someone he feels attracted to. But after he met Ethan, all of it changed. He was an innocent boy who never wanted to hurt anyone’s feeling, but now, he does not think twice about leaving a girl he only saw once in his life. In the beginning, Graham though thinking what he and Ethan were doing was wrong and they “shouldn’t be doing this, [he] should apologize that we only played them”(8) but after a few more days, he only judges a girl by the way she looks, what she is wearing, etc. Ethan is no better. He has a talent of picking up girls, going out on one date, then ditching them the next minute. He made a whole science on how girls feel, how to make them love you first, and how to do it so that he does not get hurt in the end. Ethan goes anywhere and tries to get any girl he wants. From diners, to clubs, to support-groups, anywhere where there might be girls. There is no stopping him, until Graham makes a stand in a way that Ethan never imagined.
The Art Of Picking Up Girls shows that true love can happen anywhere and can overcome everything. Even though Graham and Ethan does many horrible things to many girls, they ended up getting hit in the head for everything they have done. This book tells everyone has another half in their world, everyone deserves to have love no matter who they are or what they have done. Graham was a mess when his girl left him, so he was blinded by fear of being heartbroken again. As a result, he does many horrible things with Ethan. But he ends up with something amazing that he never dreamt of. Ethan ended up in the same fate, but with a different situation. This book can open a person’s eyes to see what true love is, and how true love really behaves. Forgiving one another and always trusting the lover no matter what happens.
This book is a four out of five in my opinion because it foreshadows the next chapter for most parts, but there are some unbelievable twists throughout the book. It grabs the readers’ attention and make them want to read the next chapter. Even though some parts are predictable, it has an amazing plot that escalates when you least expect it. It shows many small problems that lead up to the main plot in a way the reader cannot describe. The genre is romance, but it is also a very suspenseful book. I think almost all romance readers will love this book