Daniel

Adam Silvera has a particular and insistent obsession with breaking the reader's heart in his books. Worst thing is, I'm still interested in reading more of his novels.

Inventive and enchanting. Read it even if you don't like books with different stories in it. This one might make the cut.

This book...I wish I would have understood it better, but I enjoyed it nevertheless. Maybe that's just about it, isn't it?

This heartbreaking book gives you almost everything you wanted, just to take it all from you at some point, and then it just lets you have the essential bits. It got me hooked and I liked it, even tho it slapped me in the face. But writing about a hurtful truth is what it takes: lots of hope, and some more pain.

I started the saga with the third book, which was difficult to put down. I must have been between 6 and 8 years when I was gifted the first book, and I tried to read it many times but I rarely went over the first few pages. And through the years I said to myself “okay, let's do this, let's read it once and for all”. Long story short, it took me around 20 years, give or take. Definitely the most childish book of the saga, but that's part of its power, isn't it? We grew with the characters and the story, book by book. I guess that's the most magical thing about it.

The writing is superb, in the beginning took me a bit to really break the barrier and get into the story but once I did, it was marvelous. It is one of this stories who exhibit several ideas in new forms and shapes and takes time to really understand how it works, and when it's understood is completely enjoyable and compelling.

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Me ha alucinado esta lectura. No sabía muy bien qué esperar al leer la sinopsis, no parecía un thriller, pero tampoco no dejaba de parecerlo. La cosa no mejora cuando abres el libro y está contado a través de varios formatos epistolares, y la voz principal de la hija de la protagonista, Bee. Pero no por ello dejó de fascinarme, página tras página, a pesar de que, como la protagonista que da nombre al libro, no sabía hacia donde iba. Inteligente, cautivador, fresco y sorprendente, este libro me ha maravillado y me ha entregado una de las lecturas más fascinantes y satisfactorias del verano. 10/10
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I was blown away by this reading. I didn't quite know what to expect when I read the synopsis, it didn't sound like a thriller, but it didn't stop sounding like one either. It doesn't get any better when you open the book and it's told through various epistolary formats, and the main voice of the main character's daughter, Bee. But it didn't fail to fascinate me, page after page, even though, like the protagonist after whom the book is named, I didn't know where I was going. Intelligent, captivating, fresh and surprising, this book blew me away and delivered one of the most fascinating and satisfying reads of the summer. 10/10