I have previously read Adam Silvera’s two other novels, More Happy Than Not and They Both Die at the End, and found them both to be quite enjoyable and touching to read. So obviously there is some skill there, but I found that with this new novel, I just couldn’t get into it as much as I would have liked. History is All You Left Me follows a teenager named Griffin as he mourns the death of his ex-boyfriend and best friend, Theo. The two […]
Talk About a Bittersweet Symphony
What would you do if you were informed that you had less than a day to live? This is a rhetorical question you may have heard at some point (or many) in your life, whether just posed as a discussion topic or perhaps something to truly face in the circumstances of life. In They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera explores this question through the eyes of two teenage boys, in a world wherein a new system called “Death Cast” will at midnight predict everyone […]
A World That I Have No Experience With, But Topics I Personally Relate To (Well, Some of Them, At Least)
I’m not sure how I keep finding these books that result in me wanting to have long discussions about particular personal topics but, alas, the Amazon recommendations have led me here yet again. Adam Silvera’s young adult book More Happy Than Not is one of those ones that wasn’t amazing, but I still enjoyed and wanted to get through quickly. While the story and progression may have been a touch clumsy at times, some of the universal themes of pain, memory, suppression, and relationships were […]
This book made me happy, then not
For those of you who enjoy YA fiction, I would definitely recommend this one. There’s a slight science fiction element to it, but really, it’s a coming of age story and it’s fantastic. “Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.” Aaron Soto has had a tough […]