Things I Know About Love (Kate Le Vann)

 

What are the things that you know about love? Does it ring a bell to what we simply think it's just a feeling between what impress us? To be frank, Kate Le Vann's Things I Know About Love is a very short-lived story of a leukaemia girl named Livia. She was just about to discover the outside world - to the place where she has been dreaming to live into.

This is my first time reading such a short novel, similar to the Livia's relationship with Adam. The story started off with Livia's perspectives on her monotonous life. I sensed of her thoughts and feeling - the insecurity, and envying others. Livia wished that her life would be great as she enjoyed the life of being a teenager. Unfortunately, she later discovered herself with leukaemia at 14. Her dream shattered at once. 

It is understandable when she couldn't share anything to her mother because she didn't want to be a burden, and unable to lead a normal life. She went to visit her brother in Princeton, NJ because she wanted to experience the life that she dreamed of - and a relationship to feel even if it is a temporary.

Livia kept a private diary - where she wrote everything inside anonymously. She didn't reveal it to anyone including to her closest ones. It's just heartbreaking because she still felt lonely even after she was in relationship with Adam.

I'm a bit disappointed with Things I Know About Love. The ending is too abrupt. However, it has good message delivered to those who think that life is unfair. The only thing that needs to be changed. I wonder what happened to Adam after that. Did he manage to move on?

Not all true love is destined to last . . .

Livia knows three things about love so far:

1. People don't always tell you the truth about how they feel.
2. Nothing that happens between two people is guaranteed to be private.
3. She doesn't know if you ever get over having your heart broken.

Livia's experience of love has been disappointing to say the least. But all that is about to change. After years of illness, she's off to spend the summer with her brother in America. She's making up for lost time, and she's writing it all down in her private blog. America is everything she ever dreamed of - and then she meets Adam. Can Livia put the past behind her and risk falling in love again?