Hey Everyone!
First, a bit of an introduction before I
begin my “book” discussion. I have been watching a lot of youtube videos lately
about books. Apparently it’s a thing... called BookTube! One of my favourite vloggers Kayla (channel
is ObbsandLala) started a new channel called BooksandLala and I am obsessed
with her videos. Since I am always looking for book recommendations I have
basically made a list of all of the books she mentions in her videos, good or
bad in her opinion, and will try and read along with her.
One of her more recent videos was titled “Never Never | Book Reaction” and the screenshot of the video just made me want to
read that book immediately. I didn’t watch her video because I wanted to go in
with an open mind and see how I felt about it. In some of her previous videos
she had raved about one of the co-authors, Colleen Hoover, so I grabbed the “book”
and started it last night and read for about an hour.
Then I picked it back up when Miss Lily went
down for her nap, read for about another hour and just finished it about five
minutes ago! Now I am not one of those people who can read at lightning speeds,
and I don’t have an eidetic memory. I
got through this “book” so quickly because it was only 140 pages long! Reading
it on my ipad I should have noticed that but tend to not pay attention to the
page numbers at all.
As you may have noticed, I have been calling
this a “book” because it’s not a book!! I think Kayla put it perfectly when she
said “WTF did I just read?!” This is merely an introduction to an interesting,
emotional, confusing, addictive and intense story.
A brief synopsis: Charlie (a girl) and Silas
(a guy) are both 17 year old high school students who all of a sudden, at 11:00 am
on a Wednesday morning completely forget who they are and every detail about
their lives. They quickly realize that the other person also doesn't remember anything; but they discover they are apparently a couple, have been best
friends since childhood and have been in love for years. We follow the story
from both points of view and slowly learn who the characters are, at the same
time as they themselves are discovering who they are. Amid family drama, alcoholism,
violence, arguments and simply random clues they try to piece together what
happened to them and how they can try and fix it. I sat there for 140 pages completely
absorbed in these characters and trying to figure it out with them - maybe they’re
angels? maybe they’re aliens? was it some kind of drugs they took? are they hypnotized?
WHO THE HECK KNOWS!? I've never read any
of Colleen Hoover’s books; maybe they all have a sci-fi element to them? And then, when you’re thoroughly confused, itching
for more clues and at the most intense dramatic moment of the story you see the
horrible words – TO BE CONTINUED….
Are. You. Freaking. Kidding. Me!?!?!
I immediately went and watched Kayla’s video
and yep, it sufficiently summed up my feelings.
WTF did I just read?! I am not sure what the authors were thinking,
whether they wanted to add more to the story or change it somehow? But they had
an original release date of January 2015, so they had to put out something. What
they released is this horribly mean, tease of a story that I give an emphatic 5
out of 5! I did not realize that in
140 pages I could become so engrossed in a story, and so in love with characters
that don’t even seem like very nice people at all! Plus, you cannot possibly
read this book and then NOT get the next book that comes out to continue the
story - that’s some great advertising really!
I don’t really know what else to say other
than “oh man!” I need the rest of this
story! Part 2 comes out May 17th, 2015, I will give you an update when I read that sucker!
If you can handle a major cliffhanger and can
be patient enough to wait for the release of the rest of the story, I highly
recommend getting this “book”. If you can't handle it, wait until the rest comes out in May and then definitely read it in its entirety - amazing!
Let me know if you read the story and we can
be in utter shock and awe and “what-the-heck?!!?-ness” together.
Now, what to read next…?
Until next time friends,
~ Shannon
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