"The protagonist, True, the owner of a downtown vintage-clothing store, is caught between a safe (boring) boyfriend in the hand and a kooky but enthusiastic pothead in the bush. Her deliberation about how to find happiness and the love of the title unfolds without a lot of surprises, but don’t hold that against this first book [...] after all, it’s a romance, and romances are meant to follow convention. Bothma’s characters are genial and chipper, and Turner’s faithful, Sunday-newspaper-style renderings of the city make True Loves impossible to dislike. "