“I’m really pissed because you swore you would never die and yet here we are. It hurts even more because this isn’t the first promise you’ve broken.” Two young men fall in love after being best friends since they were very young. They are the happiest they have ever been when they have each other to hold. Nothing can separate Theodore and Griffin until Theo chose to go to college across the United States. Griffin and Theo were forced to break up since they were thousands of miles apart. When Theodore was gone, he met a new guy, Jackson. Theodore told Griffin all about Jackson, and Griffin was extremely mad and jealous, and quite devastated. While Theo is at college, he died in a terrible drowning accident. Griffin tells the sad story of his life with, and without Theodore, in a flashback structured writing. Jackson comes to New York, where Griffin and the funeral are, and Griffin tries to avoid him no matter what. No one understands Griffin or Jackson’s pain, besides each other. There are many more puzzle pieces that go together in this amazing page-turner. In this book, I was surprised by the realistic events, everything was thought out well by the author, everything correlates with another part of the book. I was challenged by the harsh “reality” in the fiction book. The events were very realistic but very very extreme. I feel like bad luck played a really big role in the book for the main character. While reading the book it’s extremely noticeable that it’s written in flashback formation. It starts off with a flashback and then it jumps back and forth from history to now. Having a reading assignment is one of the worst things in my eyes. Once in a blue moon, I'll find a great book that I like, but I've never enjoyed one that I've had to read. This book is a very good and interesting read. All the feelings I have experienced from these two characters have really opened my eyes to what it’s like for other people. I thought that I had it pretty bad, and even though this is fiction, It’s very realistic, and a big eye-opener. By Gunnar G.
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