Author - Gayle Forman
Genre - Young Adult
No. of Pages - 210
Year of Publication - 2009
Rating - ❤️❤️❤️
I expected this book to be quite moving and emotional, a book that would make me cry and laugh at the same time and the words of which would seep into my mind. I am not cold-blooded, but this book couldn't make me cry.
You have to believe that I cry a lot over fictional characters. I did cry while reading The Notebook and Me Before You and The Fault In Our Stars and several other books. And I expected the same to happen while reading this book because it has this death thing hanging all over it.
Mia is just the girl next door with an intense love for classical music and cello. She is 17, has loving parents and grandparents and a cute little brother, Teddy. Everything is just about normal till one morning. The morning when her family decides to go on a drive and an unfortunate accident plunges Mia through an impossible and exhausting turn of events.
Mia is the voice of this book. Sometimes you will find her telling you about what is happening around her at the moment and sometimes she will be telling about the past, about her life and of those surrounding her. Mia is haunted by a question after the accident: Whether it's better to give up all the pain and leave or to stay?
The thing is I couldn't connect that much with the characters despite trying so hard to do so, to connect with the characters, to understand their gloom and happiness, their experiences, but it did not happen. I think that's the reason, I did not cry.
I admit I had this choking feeling a few times but not tears. The thing I liked the most is the idea behind the book. The possible assumption of the state between life and death.
Read this book if you are interested in various theories about death and afterlife. This book will describe to you birth, death and everything in between.
Review by Bhumika Singh (Blog Author)
Genre - Young Adult
No. of Pages - 210
Year of Publication - 2009
Rating - ❤️❤️❤️
I expected this book to be quite moving and emotional, a book that would make me cry and laugh at the same time and the words of which would seep into my mind. I am not cold-blooded, but this book couldn't make me cry.
You have to believe that I cry a lot over fictional characters. I did cry while reading The Notebook and Me Before You and The Fault In Our Stars and several other books. And I expected the same to happen while reading this book because it has this death thing hanging all over it.
Mia is just the girl next door with an intense love for classical music and cello. She is 17, has loving parents and grandparents and a cute little brother, Teddy. Everything is just about normal till one morning. The morning when her family decides to go on a drive and an unfortunate accident plunges Mia through an impossible and exhausting turn of events.
Mia is the voice of this book. Sometimes you will find her telling you about what is happening around her at the moment and sometimes she will be telling about the past, about her life and of those surrounding her. Mia is haunted by a question after the accident: Whether it's better to give up all the pain and leave or to stay?
The thing is I couldn't connect that much with the characters despite trying so hard to do so, to connect with the characters, to understand their gloom and happiness, their experiences, but it did not happen. I think that's the reason, I did not cry.
I admit I had this choking feeling a few times but not tears. The thing I liked the most is the idea behind the book. The possible assumption of the state between life and death.
Read this book if you are interested in various theories about death and afterlife. This book will describe to you birth, death and everything in between.
Review by Bhumika Singh (Blog Author)
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