Jellicoe Road

I don't even know where to start with this review if I'm being honest. I'd read a few reviews on it and as it had such a high rating, I thought “yeah, why not?” Baring in mind that there has been a few books that I've read that I thought really didn't deserve their high rating. But that could just be because the story really wasn't my thing. But I thought I'd give “On the Jellicoe Road” a shot.

I nearly gave up. Not because it wasn't good but just because I didn't understand what the hell was going on!! I was very confused.

But after reading a few other reviews and people saying “get past the first 100 pages and it all falls into place”, I decided to stick it out.

And I am so glad I did

This story is just amazing. It's so well written and the characters were amazing.

I cried.

I never cry.

But I just couldn't not cry.

I cried tears of sadness because my heart was breaking for these characters.

I cried tears of joy because I was so happy for these characters.

It was just amazing.

“I fell in love with these kids over and over again and my heart aches for their tragedies and marvels at their friendship” I don't deal with stories of loss very well and more often than not, I get angry at them. But this was more than a story of loss. It was a story of friendship. It was a story of love. It was amazing and it will stay with me for a very long time and it'll probably be one that I will read over.

There are many well-written and heartfelt reviews of this book on Goodreads, so I will just say that it made my 51 year old heart happy to read such an amazing book even if I am 35 years older than the target demographic.

Hmm. I think I'd give 3 stars to the first half and 4 stars to the second half of this book. I couldn't get too into the whole “war games” aspect of the book. But I really liked the ~backstory screenplay~ although it took me awhile to figure out what was going on.