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The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

Written by Jennifer E. Smith

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Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. She's stuck at JFK, late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon to be step-mother that Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's in seat 18C. Hadley's in 18A.

Twists of fate and quirks of timing play out in this thoughtful novel about family connections, second chances and first loves. Set over a 24-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it.

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Release dateJan 2, 2012
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Jennifer E. Smith

Jennifer E. Smith is the author of Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between, The Geography of You and Me, This Is What Happy Looks Like, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, The Storm Makers, You Are Here, and The Comeback Season. She earned her master’s degree in creative writing from the University of St. Andrews, and her work has been translated into thirty languages.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Hadley Sullivan, seventeen years old, is at JFK airport, having just missed by four minutes her flight to London to attend her father's wedding. She's not happy about going anyway; she'd prefer to skip it, and is going only because her mother has insisted, saying that she'll regret it later if she doesn't. She's even less happy now that she's going to be spending hours waiting at the airport for the next flight, which will get her to Heathrow just in time to take a cab directly to the church.

    And then she meets Oliver, an eighteen-year-old Yale freshman headed home to England for his own family event. First he helps her with her bags as they go in search of food, and then they start to talk.

    They talk through the night, as Hadley works through her complicated feelings about her parents' divorce and her mother's remarriage, and Oliver tells silly stories about the "research" he's doing at Yale and distracts her from her claustrophobia and stress.

    The next twenty-four hours, on the plane and after they separate to go to their separate family events, are exciting, frightening, confusing, filled with emotional ups and downs for Hadley, her father, her new stepmother, and for Oliver. It's a pleasant, engaging read.

    Recommended.

    I received a free electronic galley from the publisher via NetGalley.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Read this because my younger sister left it behind, and I liked the title enough to pick it up. (Although I would say it should be "Improbability" rather than "Probability.") For a YA book it's not terrible, I guess the cheesiness and improbability are pretty much par for the course. And it's sweet, and I think has good messages about being open to liking stepparents and talking to your parents when you're upset with them. All in all probably above average for its genre, hence the four stars.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I hate that I held off on this book for so long. I've had it for over a year. I was hesitant in reading it due to the, not so gleaming, reviews. However, after reading this cute story, that encompassed all kinds of after school special learnings, in one sitting I found it to be light and refreshing.

    I was having a hard time getting through a book and decided to pick this up. I'm happy I did. If I would've kept trudging through the other book not only would I had put it down but would've started watching something on Hulu instead.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Definitely a fun teen romance with good characters. I wasn't swooning over Hadley/Oliver to the extent I did to Anna/Etienne or Lola/Cricket in Stephanie Perkins's books, though, so I'll knock off a star. But Perkins is a really high level to aspire to. I'll def check out some more Jennifer E. Smith titles!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    It's such a cute book! I'm adding this to my "eternally-beautiful-books" shelf :)
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This story was a fun and quick escape. If you can't hop a plane to Jolly England, consider it a consolation prize.

    I was seeking some comfort-foodesque chick-lit, what I found was a much deeper story than I first realized. Hadley is on the way to her father's wedding. As she misses her scheduled flight, it's clear that the first time she will meet her to-be stepmother will be the day of the wedding. Talk about awkward.

    Being of the Lindsey Lohan "Parent Trap" generation, I imagined that something would go wrong with the wedding, or the father would suddenly realize that the to-be stepmother is a horrible person, or she'd just skip the whole wedding to hang with the sweet guy on the plane.

    Refreshingly, the story took a braver approach. Through the next twenty-four hours, Hadley, aided by Oliver, the boy on the plane who is easy to talk to, realizes the importance of facing the family awkwardness, having unconditional love for one's family, and supporting the happiness of others. Wonderfully mature. And although the true statistical probability of love at first sight might be slim, the story handles meeting an amazing someone new like a pro.

    I hope to read more from Jennifer E. Smith in the future!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I stumbled upon this book by accident. I was looking for a light young adult book to read - something different than my usual fantasy, scifi or dystopian reads - and this was one of the books that popped up on my searches. I thought it looked like what I was looking for so I would give it a go. I was not disappointed!At first glance this seems to be a young adult romance story. Something light and fun to zip through quickly. But it didn't take more than a few pages for me to realize that this book was much more than that. While there is a romantic storyline, Smith is dealing with much deeper issues in this novel: death, divorce, parents, life changes and the pain of moving on.I highly recommend this to any teen, particularly those in their senior years at high school. This is an amazingly well written coming of age story. A cross between Laurie Halse Anderson and John Green, Jennifer E. Smith is a talented writer. The characters and the storyline are anything but predictable and will keep you turning the pages!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Read on April 13, 2013I read this one in just a couple of hours. It's a sweet story about young love and dealing with big family events. Definitely comparable to a recent fave of mine: love and other perishable things, though I did like the changing POV in Buzo's novel.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I hate that I held off on this book for so long. I've had it for over a year. I was hesitant in reading it due to the, not so gleaming, reviews. However, after reading this cute story, that encompassed all kinds of after school special learnings, in one sitting I found it to be light and refreshing.

    I was having a hard time getting through a book and decided to pick this up. I'm happy I did. If I would've kept trudging through the other book not only would I had put it down but would've started watching something on Hulu instead.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Cute if a little slight. Hadley is a likable character though.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, henceforth to be referred to as TSP for brevity's sake, is a sweet, quick little book. The story has a similar feel to Love, Actually, with the sense that while everything doesn't turn out as hoped, love will ultimately conquer all. In fact, TSP has a very cinematic quality to it. This book has high ratings pretty much across the board, and I can certainly see why.

    I have been on so many flights, but I've never ever gotten to flirt with a cute guy in the waiting area or sit next to one on the plane. Can I just be a character in a novel already? Seriously? Hadley misses her flight to London for her father's wedding by just four minutes. Had she not missed the flight, she never would have met the sweet, charming, silly Oliver. Had she not met Oliver, she might not have grown up enough to bond with her father again.

    Smith's writing is incredibly interesting. TSP is written in third person present tense, which one does not see particularly often. I really did not have a problem with that at all, though I've never been as particular about tenses as most readers, but some of the flashbacks and memories had some awkwardness with tenses. I did love her writing, though. There were a lot of quotes that reached out and grabbed me.

    On the surface, this book seems entirely about the romance, about a girl and a boy meeting and falling in love over the course of just a day. However, fun as that can be to read, I maintain the book had more depth than that, and, for that reason, I rate it more highly. At least as much focus is put on Hadley's relationship with her father as on her blooming relationship with the adorable, British Oliver, who actually doesn't have a huge role in the second half of the book but for cameos.

    Oliver really steals the show, though, particularly with his absurd lies about what he's studying at Yale. Their interactions are adorable and I especially loved their surprisingly deep conversations about love and marriage. They do not fall under my heading of instalove. The two form a real bond while flying on that plane, and I could see them actually going back to Connecticut and becoming a real couple. They're super into each other, and certainly feeling starstruck by the serendipity of everything, but their interactions are not cheesy or full of protestations of eternal tender devotion.

    TSP joins the illustrious list of YA novels with present parents. Both Hadley's mother and father love her and want to do right by her, despite the chaos of the divorce. Hadley has not seen her father since she found out about Charlotte, his soon-to-be wife. The realization that her father has moved in also results in Hadley developing claustrophobia. This element seems tacked on to me, disappearing except when it benefited the plot to have Hadley freak out. For how big of a deal she makes of her claustrophobia in the early chapters, it seems not to affect her much later.

    I liked the way her interactions with Oliver convinced Hadley to give her father another chance. Her own crazy actions and excitement over meeting a new boy lead to her reevaluation of her father's affair with Charlotte. While that was well done, I still could not forgive him as easily as Hadley does. While I did think she and her father were on a good path, I felt that her forgiveness was too complete to be entirely believable in such a short time frame.

    If you are looking for a quick read with a sweet romance, you cannot go wrong with TSP. I know I will be reading more Jennifer E. Smith books in the future without a doubt!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book had two big things that could have gone horribly wrong for me. One is that the whole book takes place over the course of 24-ish hours and the second is that it's in present tense. These were two things that could have ultimately ruined the book for me, but I'm pleased and surprised to say that they didn't.

    The whole book takes place in 24 hours which could have made the story a bit frantic, but luckily it didn't feel that way at all. I was very impressed with how the author was able to make me believe in Hadley's character growth in such a short amount of time.

    While there is a love story in this book with a cute British guy named Oliver, I think the story is really more about how Hadley comes to accept her fathers affair and the divorce of her parents. I liked that both parents were just portrayed as real people who had made mistakes. Hadley has to overcome a lot of anger toward her father and his new wife and I liked how meeting Oliver allowed her to do that.

    I did think the story was a bit slow in the beginning. In fact for the first 70 pages or so I didn't feel especially invested, but once Hadley and Oliver arrived in London I read straight through till the end.

    Overall, a cute YA story that left me smiling. As a sidenote: I think this particular book would be a good read for teens of all ages as there wasn't anything too questionable content wise.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Girl meets Boy, they swoon, they each have Issues with their families; they go their separate ways and then Girl Finds Boy and Boy Finds Girl and that's that.

    I didn't get a great sense of romance from these two; the whole story feels a little clipped, a little cool. It's an oddly generic teen romance, in spite of its unusual setting (an airport). No doubts about its appeal to teen girls, but I walk away thinking the teen romance genre can do better.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    3.5

    This was a super-short read - 215 pages of pretty large print - but it was fun, heart-warming and I managed to finish it within a couple of hours. I didn't quite take enough from it to give it 4 stars, but then it was far better than some of the books I've rated 3 stars in the past, hence the rating. I confess that I would not have read this book if the publishers had not provided a free copy for review, I rarely like romance books and need something else to support the novel, a mystery for example. Or a fantasy world. But this book surprised me with it's quirky humour and easy-to-read style.

    Not many books actually make me laugh out loud but this managed to extract a few giggles, mostly during the conversations between Hadley and Oliver, the chemistry was easily built up and sustained throughout. Also, that's another thing, there wasn't any "love at first sight" nonsense, so I'm not quite sure what that title's all about. There is a touch of fate/destiny questions about whether life is automatically leading you towards the one you're meant to be with... but strangely, it wasn't cheesy and it kind of worked. I don't even know how. But I'm guessing it must be in the author's talent for writing conversations, the novel is made up mostly of conversations between the two protagonists and, though a novel with so little plot movement should be boring, I remained glued to the pages.

    If you're British you should definitely read this for a good laugh at the stereotyping going on, he's got the accent, he's wearing trainers, and his name is Oliver... like Hadley points out: as in Oliver Twist. It's a little ridiculous but more ridiculously funny than anything else. Is this really how Americans perceive us? Or was the author just looking for a good excuse to use words like "bloke" and "bloody hell"? Teeheehee.

    The slightly more serious aspect of the novel was to do with Hadley trying to forgive her father for running off with another woman whilst in England. I'm not sure why but I never actually felt like the author managed to redeem her father, I wanted her to create a strong personality for him, so I could see inside his mind and forgive him as a reader, but I kind of felt like Hadley's decision to forgive didn't occur naturally and came out of the blue, simply as a necessary part of the story.

    Oh well, this was a sweet book and it provided me with a couple of hours of light entertainment.

    Many thanks to the publisher for kindly providing a copy of this for review.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    To be honest, I skim read a lot of this book. I was bored by all the flashback memories of Hadley and her father and was just reading to get past the wedding, etc. to get to where Oliver would inevitably show back up. So the romance half of the book I really enjoyed, but the family drama father-daughter relationship stuff fell very flat for me.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Well, this was a quick read. I didn't think much of this book. It was fine. Insta-love, but I focused more on Hadley's relationship with her parents because I found that more interesting than Oliver. It wasn't anything great, but it is a rom-com fluff book so if you want that, this is for you.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I don't normally read these type of romance books. BUT, this one knocked my socks off. Ms. Smith is a wonderful writer. I actually saw myself at the airport with the main characters. The writing in this story is like a painting, lovely and descriptive. A perfect little love story.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I think I've been booking all the wrong flights.I have never once been lucky enough to bump into a chivalrous British stranger in an airport. I sat by a doctor on a flight once...but he was about 150 years old. The good news, however, is that I don't have to meet him because Hadley already has. Fate compensates Hadley after missing her original flight by only four minutes by introducing her to Oliver. Oliver is straight out of a teenage girl's diary entry -- he is funny, well-educated, handsome, mysterious, and did we mention British? After their initial meeting, we follow the two throughout the course of the emotionally fueled next day. Is it really possible to fall in love in the air over the Atlantic?The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight was an extremely enjoyable read. We get to question the role of fate, destiny, and timing in our lives alongside Hadley as she not only struggles with the possibility of losing Oliver forever after landing in London, but also the family changing events she is dreading in London. Although this book had a slightly predictable plot; it was an easy read. Anything more complex may have been off-putting to the reader. If I had any complaints it would be that I was expecting more statistics. Oliver is scientifically oriented, so I was expecting more of a tie in with the title. Overall I thought the book was an extremely entertaining read and hope to read more in the future from this author.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was the perfect light read for Valentines Day. First of all, speaking as a math teacher, I love the title! As a young adult book, it was very readable. Plus, love at first sight based on a friendship, so with a better outcome than Romeo and Juliet.Hadley, seventeen, is reluctantly heading to London for her father's wedding when she misses her plane. She meets up with Oliver, a British teen heading home. They spend the long flight together, getting to know one another, mostly through Hadley's complaints and misery. Hadley is still upset that her parents have split up; she feels pulled between missing her dad and feeling disloyal to her jilted mom. Very common and understandable feelings in a too familiar situation.The time in London is frantic and fast, a wedding,a funeral, several trips on the tube. Hadley and Oliver meet and separate several times, with Hadley growing up and coming to be more patient with her father and his new wife. It was predictable, but lovely. It felt like it could have been one of the plot lines in the movie Love, Actually, which is probably why I liked it so much. If you are looking for a short, sweet romantic book, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight would be perfect.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This was a very quick read, but I enjoyed it. It was sweet and sad and I'm glad I grabbed it at the library the other day.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I was completely captivated by this charming story, taking place over a mere 24 hours. Hadley and Oliver meet while waiting for a plane to London, and wind up sitting next to each other on the long flight. An elderly seatmate, married for 52 years, tells them that "When you're on the other side of it, fifty two years can seem like fifty two minutes". Time plays a crucial role in the story and Smith wastes none of it. Each chapter heading keeps track of time and even the beginning of the book, when Hadley has a series of delays that makes her late to her gate at the airport, shows the importance of those few four minutes. One of my favorite lines from the beginning of the book has to do with Hadley wondering why she'd ever have believed in the punctuality of the airlines and that it would be her downfall.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    It's the tiny things in life that make the huge differences. Likely, you've heard that before, but rarely has it rung so true than in Jennifer E Smith's new novel The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. A series of tiny (on their own) things make Hadley Sullivan four minutes late for her flight.Missing her flight by only four measly minutes would have been bad enough if it weren't a flight from JFK to Heathrow, New York to London, a last minute flight to her father's second wedding. Possibly late to her father's wedding (she doesn't want to attend) to a soon-to-be stepmother she's never met, Hadley is miserable.Then she meets Oliver. Gorgeous, British Oliver who's also waiting for the next flight to London. He's even seat 18C to Hadley's 18A. Suddenly several hours spent in the airport - and then several more on a plane - might not be so horrible after all.The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight is possibly the only book that will make you wish you for an upcoming transatlantic flight just for the possibility of meeting your own Oliver and having an experience like the one in TSPoLaFS. Told over just twenty-four hours, Hadley and Oliver's story deal so well with fate and chance, of course, but also with familial relationships and love. Hadley's relationship with her parents (her father especially) is also looked at in flashbacks that help explain how things go to where they are now. Some of the flashbacks are so good, so engrossing that it's easy to forget they're not the main story.Any story that focuses on just a few characters in a confined setting (like an airport or airplane) for a sustained period of time runs the risk of feeling forced or running or the dialogue not working. Here, though, it's really fun. Hadley and Oliver talk about incredibly varied things which almost seem random but allow them - and readers - to learn about them, too.It is nice that the whole book doesn't take place on the plane and allows the two to be separate for a while. We see how they affected each other, what they learned from each other (in their short few hours together) as well as how/what they think about the other when the other is not right there.The Statistical Probability takes the beginning of a young couple's romance and shows you the first 24 hours. It doesn't smoosh and entire courtship into a single day, leaving them professing their undying love at the end . . . it keeps things realistic but also romantic. You feel the connection between Oliver and Hadley, that it's something more than just someone they met at the airport or some new friend or someone they'd like to call for a date.The novel does an amazing job of keeping the spark between the characters obvious but without having anything rushed.It will definitely have you feeling hopeful next time you're headed to the airport!Rating: 9/10Thank you to LBYR (and Faye), Poppy & NetGalley for ny egalley of this title
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. SmithPages: 236Release Date: January 2nd, 2012Date Read: 2012, July 9th-10thReceived: Library - but I bought it the day after I read it!Rating: 5/5 stars, Forever Favorite!Recommended to: 12+SUMMARY -Flying to London may be most girls' dream, but not Hadley's. Not when she's flying out to be a bridesmaid in her own father's wedding. Even worse - she misses her flight by four minutes - ensuring she'll most likely be late. What she doesn't expect: she's helped by a boy named Oliver - and seated next to him as well. Because of this, the next 24 hours will change her very reason for existing.MY THOUGHTS -This is one of the best books I have ever read in my entire life.I rarely speak those words, and when I do, I really really for reals mean it. It usually means I bawled like a baby (as in this case) and it sometimes means my perspective was changed, altered, for the better (this is also the case). It is extremely difficult to write a review for a book as brilliant as this. I'm feeling quite inadequate, like I don't really know how to put into words my expressly positive feelings for this story.Jennifer E. Smith is a new author to me, but I assure you: I have plans to purchase every single book she's ever written or will write. These plans will, I assure you upon my life, come to pass. Smith's writing is like - GAH! The prose in this book is unbelievably GORGEOUS. I was completely swept away. STUNNING.CHARACTER NOTES -Hadley. HADLEY. She's way cool. Despite the goings on of her life, she's just completely awesome. I adore her to pieces. I was quite disappointed when I realized I can't actually be her best friend in real life. I love her that much. Her growth, the emotion she felt, how she handled every event, how her emotions developed throughout the story - I was completely enthralled, under the spell of her gorgeous third person POV narration.And her name? Definitely going on my top five favorite girl names list.Then there's the matter of Oliver. He's so much fun...like, beyond reason - and totally realistic at the same time. He has his own secrets and sorrows that are a part of him, but do not make him who he is. The slow, yet quick, progression of his relationship with Hadley made me bubble over with joy. I really really really need to marry a guy who will draw ducks on napkins for me. Oliver took my breath away more times that I can count. No really - my breath caught more than a few times!Hadley's father Andrew amazed me with his complexity. I hated and loved him at the same time. He left Hadley and her mom for a British woman...and yet I love who he is. He and Charlotte really added something beautiful to Hadley's journey. I loved every moment.I also love how Oliver is so much like Andrew. I don't know if that was intentional, but it sure was natural. They are both such free spirits, with great imaginations that veer toward the silly side. Such a neat dynamic!STORY NOTES -You'd think that not much can happen in 24 hours, but Mrs. Smith assures you, it can. A LOT can happen in 24 hours. A lot of beautiful things.I love how natural it is. The story progresses realistically. The relationship between Hadley and Oliver is never cheesy, but is, instead, completely realistic. It is NOT insta-love. It is, rather, like the old lady on the plane says, that a few hours with someone you love can feel like a blessed few years. This illustration, executed so perfectly, is beautiful.I love that nothing is perfect. There are perfect moments, but these moments are made perfect by their imperfections. Toilet paper on a little boy's shoe, Hadley's feet being stomped on during a father-daughter dance, tears at the sight of someone you love.The situation with Hadley's dad is hard. I was hoping Hadley wouldn't be made to seem like the bad guy for being bitter - her father left them. So I was stunned into happiness when both Hadley and her father confess. Such a beautiful scene. Right about where I started crying, actually. And I didn't stop until long after the book had come to a close.Normally, I don't do short books, because I usually feel jipped by the length. SO not the case here. This book has everything - everything good, that is. And nothing bad. The end is completely satisfying, so beautiful and breathtaking and consistent, tying off all loose ends and boosting even more tears.It's true - I'm in love with this book.SUMMING IT UP -........................ It's one of those. The ones you can't summarize or phrase or recommend enough. You have to do the reading now, the experiencing and the living. Please, everyone - BUY THIS BOOK!! (And my sister, who read this book in almost one sitting, interjects that SHE gets Oliver. HA! AS IF!)For the Parents -Two, maybe three, minor swear words. A couple of kisses - no details. Talk of an affair. In reality, nothing to be worried about. Recommended 12+
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The whole book takes place in a bit more than 24 hours when Hadley and Oliver end up as seat mates on a plane to London. Hadley is going to her dad's second wedding and Oliver to his dad's funeral. The two immediately hit it off. It's a romance and a family story as these two people share their stories during one whirlwind day that is going to be extremely difficult for each of them. It's a quick, satisfying read as I gobbled it up in an afternoon. I found it the perfect title to kick off my summer break.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I must tell you that I am far from the target audience of this book. Probably forty years older. And forty years more jaded.I also must tell you that I am a sap for a good romance. I'll read a so-so romance and always rate it higher than I would a so-so historical fiction novel or a so-so fantasy novel.Enough warnings. I liked this book. I would have probably loved it had I read it when I was sixteen. It's a gentle story of a sad girl who meets a charming boy on the airplane, a story with enough serendipity to make this a cupcake of a novel.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I thought this book was pretty good, but nothing special. It was a very fast read, taking place in just 24 hours. I liked the characters well enough, though I feel we never really got to know Oliver very well at all with his constant joking. I'm a little tired of books with characters dealing with parent separation/divorce, and in the end, that's all this book is. Cute, but forgettable.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    There is nothing Hadley Sullivan wants to do less than get on a plane to London to be a bridesmaid in her father's wedding, but missing her flight by just four minutes seems ridiculous even to her. Waiting in the airport, she has a chance encounter with a British boy named Owen who is on her flight. While they spark during the seven-hour night flight, it's what happens when they land in London that will make or break their budding relationship.Smith's novel is a delight. Hadley is a thoroughly believable seventeen year old girl who is dealing with the trauma of her parents' divorce and the dreaded remarriage of her father. In contrast with this realistic family drama is the very sweet moments between Hadley and Owen. They spark, banter, and are just thoroughly charming whenever they're together. The dream of being seated next to a cute British boy on an airplane has never been cuter. A brilliant juxtaposition of dealing with the changes in a family that you can't control and the magic of a chance encounter, the book is a realistic and sweet read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Seventeen year old Hadley misses her flight to London and meets Oliver in the airport. A number of small delays and forgotten tasks make her late, including the fact that she really doesn't want to go to London for her father's second wedding to a woman she's never met.The story takes place over one day and Hadley learns a lot about herself, her parents and life.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight was such a cute story! Hadley is headed to London for her father's wedding, and nothing goes the way she expects starting with missing her flight. Basically, the whole day ends up as a series of lessons for Hadley that she really needed to learn. While the book was really predictable, it was also really sweet and cute. Oliver had such a sweet personality and a great sense of humor. His and Hadley's chemistry was great. Overall it was a really quick fun read. I think the author captured a lot of the feelings a teenage girl facing her parent's divorce / new lives apart would be experiencing. It was perfect for a rainy day. :)Audio Specific Comments: I think the narrator really fit Hadley's personality and did a good job.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This wasn't as fantastic as I was anticipating, although it was an enjoyable enough read that I think middle school girls will enjoy. Warning: spoilers follow. The main character, whose name I've already forgotten, while on a plane to get her to Paris to be a bridesmaid in her father's wedding, meets a boy, Oliver. They separate when going through customs, before they have exchanged phone numbers or email information. She attends the wedding, and before the reception, decides to travel to the church where Oliver also has a family engagement. When she arrives she finds, to her embarrassment, that it is his father's funeral. She leaves, and later, when she is somewhat despondent over the turn of events, he shows up at the wedding reception and they share a dance. The reason it will get a spot on our shelves is because it is humorous and has some insightful thoughts.