[Review] The Love Virus by Eleni Cay – Descendant of Poseidon Reads

Hello, everyone!

Now my tour stop for The Love Virus by Eleni Cay hosted by Caffeine Book Tours and Shut up, Shealea. Read more details of the book below (and also my thought about it!)

Contemporary

SYNOPSIS: When Katie finds out that her increasingly unresponsive legs and extreme fatigue is due to Multiple Sclerosis, she rides an emotional rollercoaster – anger, denial and fear – when faced with a wheelchair-bound existence. She puts her studies at Oxford on hold, and she splits up from her fiancé, Mark, even though she still loves him. While undergoing treatment, Katie is diagnosed with MS2 – a virus that paralyses the mind. In hospital, Katie has to cope with her irritating bedfellows who argue constantly, and where she is treated by Dr Andrews, a handsome psychologist. The closer she gets to him however, the worse her pain becomes. Compounding Katie’s struggle is Mark, who returns to her bedside day after day. Once Katie begins Dr Andrews’ new experimental MS2 treatment, Mark can’t recognize her anymore. He begins to wonder if Katie will ever be cured.

April 2020 | 493 Pages | Self-Published | kindle ed. | Rated: ★★★★☆

Buy Links: Amazon

I found this book, The Love Virus, something to look forward this pandemic times and it gives some common points to certain emotions and states you’ll feel when face with this kind of situation. Well, some of us are since the widespread of Covid-19. For me, this book gives resemblance to what we will feel if someone we used to love (just like Katie) pushes us out of their life but we keep fighting on holding (just like Mark did).

This book has good pacing that you’ll fluidly follow the story and when it comes to the writing style, I think it suits just well, that this book goes for verse type structure which gives it more beautiful in a way. Lyrically beautiful to say.

In all, The Love Virus is an emotional read which really gives relatable moments given the situation we are all facing this pandemic.

Eleni Cay

Eleni Cay is a Slovakian-born poet living in England and Norway.

She is known for her multimedia poetry which has been screened at international festivals and featured on Button Poetry.

Her award-winning first collection was published in Slovak, English and German. The Love Virus is Eleni’s debut novel.

eleni-cay | twitter | instagram | goodreads

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