"This book will make you cry, think, and then cry some more."
—Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything
From the New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not comes an explosive examination of grief, mental illness, and the devastating consequences of refusing to let go of the past.
When Griffin’s first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But now, the future he’s been imagining for himself has gone far off course.
To make things worse, the only person who truly understands his heartache is Jackson. But no matter how much they open up to each other, Griffin’s downward spiral continues. He’s losing himself in his obsessive compulsions and destructive choices, and the secrets he’s been keeping are tearing him apart.
If Griffin is ever to rebuild his future, he must first confront his history, every last heartbreaking piece in the puzzle of his life.
I was initially impressed with this book because I honestly did not like MORE HAPPY THAN NOT. I know I am a black sheep with that opinion, and part of the reason I read this book even though I didn't like that one was because I wanted to see if perhaps I was wrong the first time around. The writing in this book is much better than MHTN. It was another very emotional story and it handled the topic of grief well, but I realized I kind of have an issue with how it was plotted. There's a big reveal near the end of the book about the MC's relationship with someone, and it didn't make any sense to me that this would be a big plot twist reveal type of thing, because in real life, you would be thinking about that all along. It made sense when the same thing was done in MHTN because the guy literally had his memory erased, but in this book, it did not work for me and stretched the believability of the story too much. I also thought it chopped up the pacing of the story to have a big reveal near the end again, and the plot twist ended up seeming kind of random and there just for the shock value. I still think this book is better than MHTN, but I don't know if I'll end up keeping a four-star rating because compared to other books, I don't think it's really that great.
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