Writing style
Conversational · Dialogue-driven · Direct
Say You Swear
Romance
- Print length
- 528 pagesOrion Publishing Group, Limited, 2023
Description
A young woman enters college expecting the future she has imagined with her first love, only to watch that certainty collapse when he is no longer willing to share it. Heartbreak unsettles not just her romantic hopes but the friendships and sense of belonging built around them. Then another man enters her life with patience, attentiveness, and a determination to show that love need not repeat the past. As she struggles to separate genuine possibility from grief and loyalty, the new relationship tests what she believes devotion should feel like. This contemporary college romance explores friendship, emotional recovery, and whether a second love can carry the force of a first without becoming its replacement.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Measured
Tone
Hopeful · Intimate · Melancholic · Romantic
Structure
Linear
Focus
Character · Relationships
Emotional intensity
4 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 2 / 5
- Structure
- 2 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781398719484
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