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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"That’s stupid," Ainsley said. "What's the point of being alive if you're not going to be bothered into something better?"
"What's the point of being alive if you’re too busy being bothered to do any living?" Emmeline retorted.
This book was beautiful and everything that I have been wanting in a YA novel for a while now. When I heard about the book, I knew I would love it and it did not disappoint. The book is about Amelia Griffin, a freshly graduated eighteen year old who has been obsessed with the Orman Chronicles for years. They are what brought her and her best friend Jenna together. But when Jenna dies in a terrible car accident and she is left to pick up the pieces of her life, Amelia is having a hard time at where to start until a limited edition of the Orman Chronicles is comes into her life. The book is about her dealing with her grief and trying to pick the pieces up now that she now longer has her best friend.
There are so many thing that I loved but one being the flashbacks of Jenna and Amelia throughout the book. She was constantly there in her mind, and even though she was dead, Jenna was just as strong of a character as the ones that were still alive. I enjoyed seeing the friendship between Amelia and Jenna.
As a reader anything having to do with writing, bookstores, or just books in general, I typically love. And Val's bookstore is something I wish so badly existed in real life! I now want to visit it after getting a mysterious book in the mail and get to stay in a room above the bookstore and come down in the middle of the night and get to wander around. Or better yet, get the cute author of my favorite book series to read to me. It books like this that make me believe in magic, and that maybe its hidden deep in a bookstore somewhere and I just have to find it.
To share another one of my favorite moments from the book is after Jenna dies and Amelia has inherited her library, she goes to the books for comfort. Like many others, this is my first reaction as well; to grab a book and fall into the world bound with the pages. But when Amelia can no longer do this, I started crying! "I've lived in books. I've eaten and breathed books for so long that I took it for granted. I assumed that , if they saved me once, they would always be there to pick me up, even if Jenna wasn’t. But Jenna is gone , and the words stay on the page in their neat, orderly rows. The pages don’t rise up to meet me like old friends and the characters are marionettes pulled by visible strings."
Later on in the story we see Amelia start to use photography as a medium for her emotions and I loved this and when Nolan is telling her that she doesn't have to go to Montana, and that she doesn’t have to follow Jenna's plan; she could be anything she wanted, and that it is not a bad thing, I loved it. When they kept telling each other what the other needed to hear, they both needed to hear it, and in the end they were what the other needed. Nolan tells Amelia that everything is a story and that she just needs to find the one that means something to her.
At the end of the day, it only makes me hold fictional boys at a higher standard than real ones. But at the same time I think the whole book was about going out into the world and finding the story that means something to you; the one you want to tell. I related to Amelia and Nolan both and think Ashley Schumacher did an amazing job! The writing was beautiful, the story and characters were so well thought out and crafted. It was magical, but just real enough to make me believe that there's a belonging out there and people for me just like there was for Amelia.
And that bookstores are totally magical. :)
1,000,000/5 stars. I will be recommending this highly!
"What's the point of being alive if you’re too busy being bothered to do any living?" Emmeline retorted.
This book was beautiful and everything that I have been wanting in a YA novel for a while now. When I heard about the book, I knew I would love it and it did not disappoint. The book is about Amelia Griffin, a freshly graduated eighteen year old who has been obsessed with the Orman Chronicles for years. They are what brought her and her best friend Jenna together. But when Jenna dies in a terrible car accident and she is left to pick up the pieces of her life, Amelia is having a hard time at where to start until a limited edition of the Orman Chronicles is comes into her life. The book is about her dealing with her grief and trying to pick the pieces up now that she now longer has her best friend.
There are so many thing that I loved but one being the flashbacks of Jenna and Amelia throughout the book. She was constantly there in her mind, and even though she was dead, Jenna was just as strong of a character as the ones that were still alive. I enjoyed seeing the friendship between Amelia and Jenna.
As a reader anything having to do with writing, bookstores, or just books in general, I typically love. And Val's bookstore is something I wish so badly existed in real life! I now want to visit it after getting a mysterious book in the mail and get to stay in a room above the bookstore and come down in the middle of the night and get to wander around. Or better yet, get the cute author of my favorite book series to read to me. It books like this that make me believe in magic, and that maybe its hidden deep in a bookstore somewhere and I just have to find it.
To share another one of my favorite moments from the book is after Jenna dies and Amelia has inherited her library, she goes to the books for comfort. Like many others, this is my first reaction as well; to grab a book and fall into the world bound with the pages. But when Amelia can no longer do this, I started crying! "I've lived in books. I've eaten and breathed books for so long that I took it for granted. I assumed that , if they saved me once, they would always be there to pick me up, even if Jenna wasn’t. But Jenna is gone , and the words stay on the page in their neat, orderly rows. The pages don’t rise up to meet me like old friends and the characters are marionettes pulled by visible strings."
Later on in the story we see Amelia start to use photography as a medium for her emotions and I loved this and when Nolan is telling her that she doesn't have to go to Montana, and that she doesn’t have to follow Jenna's plan; she could be anything she wanted, and that it is not a bad thing, I loved it. When they kept telling each other what the other needed to hear, they both needed to hear it, and in the end they were what the other needed. Nolan tells Amelia that everything is a story and that she just needs to find the one that means something to her.
At the end of the day, it only makes me hold fictional boys at a higher standard than real ones. But at the same time I think the whole book was about going out into the world and finding the story that means something to you; the one you want to tell. I related to Amelia and Nolan both and think Ashley Schumacher did an amazing job! The writing was beautiful, the story and characters were so well thought out and crafted. It was magical, but just real enough to make me believe that there's a belonging out there and people for me just like there was for Amelia.
And that bookstores are totally magical. :)
1,000,000/5 stars. I will be recommending this highly!
4,5/5
Tak tohle bylo opravdu moc příjemné překvapení a oficiálně prohlašuji, že se Amelie dostala na příčku mých oblíbených ya contemporary knih (ne že bych jich četla nějaké chvályhodné množství kdy bych mohla provádět rozbory a porovnávání co by za něco stály ale pšt)
Tak tohle bylo opravdu moc příjemné překvapení a oficiálně prohlašuji, že se Amelie dostala na příčku mých oblíbených ya contemporary knih (ne že bych jich četla nějaké chvályhodné množství kdy bych mohla provádět rozbory a porovnávání co by za něco stály ale pšt)
When I read the synopsis of this book I just knew it will break me and it did.
I read this book during 24hr readathon and I was sobbing just a few pages in. I have a bestfriend like Amelia, my very own Jenna and we are inseparable and I don't know how I would continue living if I lose her. I have always avoided books that talks about grief and death because its my weakness and potentially trigger me to breakdown but this book is so beautiful that it rebuild what it had broken.
So many deaths in this book but the author did an amazing job in telling it delicately and gently like a breeze or a caress. I never knew that books, deaths, bookstore, author and romance can work perfectly together.
I was about to give it only a 4 star because I'm kinda turn off with the insta love between Nolan and Amelia but as the story progress and at the ending even them admitted everything is happening fast, also people grief in different ways. Love has no timeline and when you connect someone in that degree of intimacy that you've shared deepest hurt and tragedy with each other in confidence that it will stay between you two, so yeah I changed it into 5 shining star!
I read this book during 24hr readathon and I was sobbing just a few pages in. I have a bestfriend like Amelia, my very own Jenna and we are inseparable and I don't know how I would continue living if I lose her. I have always avoided books that talks about grief and death because its my weakness and potentially trigger me to breakdown but this book is so beautiful that it rebuild what it had broken.
So many deaths in this book but the author did an amazing job in telling it delicately and gently like a breeze or a caress. I never knew that books, deaths, bookstore, author and romance can work perfectly together.
I was about to give it only a 4 star because I'm kinda turn off with the insta love between Nolan and Amelia but as the story progress and at the ending even them admitted everything is happening fast, also people grief in different ways. Love has no timeline and when you connect someone in that degree of intimacy that you've shared deepest hurt and tragedy with each other in confidence that it will stay between you two, so yeah I changed it into 5 shining star!
* okay i’m starting this 12/29 and initial impressions, there is A LOT in the little preview so i feel like this will be pretty plot heavy
* after reading prologue-chapter 4 i can firmly say there will be a lot of plot. i really like the family aspect of the book. not only did she lose her best friend, she lost her sister and she can’t bring herself to be in jennas house despite that being her new home since her dad left and her mother broke down. where im at right now she
* 1/2/22 wow. im on page 210 and amelia and nolan’s relationship is so fun. i didn’t mention this earlier when i stopped at 160 but i like how slow build the relationship is. the metaphor about the string between them is really well done. i like that sharing their trauma with one another is bringing them closer and that is helping them both work through their problems. i really hope amelia chooses to chase her dreams. she continues to address that she wants her snow globe to be on the beach in lochbrook with nolan and i think she should stay. it is obviously hard for to go against jennas plan but dead jenna would be SO PROUD of her for doing what she believes in. also, nolan’s sisters’ death was heart breaking. the fact that he can’t bear to publish the last book because then he has nothing left to hold onto of them that the world doesn’t see. the fact that he (i think) sent the book because he saw how much he could influence someone with his work through the picture jenna showed him. basically i want amelia to stay in lochbrook and i want nolan to publish the book.
* it’s 10:45pm 1/2/22 and i’m gonna try to finish tonight. updates to come. wtf is mr “i like computers more nolan is too much drama” doing talking abt fate lmao. very excited abt marina tho. “shh. pretend with me” MY FUCKING HEART NOLAN STOP IT. pg. 235 train metaphor was a little out of place but i’ll take it. amelias phone call with mark and her reaction to it were both so infuriating. HER REACTION??? why take it out on NOLAN WTF DOES HE HAVE TO DO WITH THIS HOMIE. 263 im so genuinely fucking pissed. i almost want to stop reading. this is so incredibly fucking frustrating. what in the actual hell do u mean she’s just driving away? im mad im so mad im so beyond fucking mad. i didn’t even get the chance to talk abt how much i like the way we got glimpses into nolan’s past through his journals that was so cool. she didn’t turn around. she’s back in texas and i am livid. she went to the grave and now i am just emotional. i have cried three separate times at the text from mark.
* “im sorry hon. i love you. dinner tonight?”
* that was quite possibly the most satisfying ending i’ve ever read. it’s 1:05am. i was so upset because there is so much room in endings for failure. nolan even says his least favorite part of books is the end. he hates ends in books. what is unique about the ending of this book is that feels so much like a beginning yet provides so much closure. the inclusion of the epilogue was also wonderful because u get to explore what happens to the characters without weighing down the ending of the book. the epilogue leaves out alex though which is slightly disappointing but i don’t know how much there is to include. usually, like nolan, i don’t like the endings of great stories because there can be so much more. this book doesn’t leave me wanting more. the ending was perfect, nothing is perfect, this is.
* after reading prologue-chapter 4 i can firmly say there will be a lot of plot. i really like the family aspect of the book. not only did she lose her best friend, she lost her sister and she can’t bring herself to be in jennas house despite that being her new home since her dad left and her mother broke down. where im at right now she
* 1/2/22 wow. im on page 210 and amelia and nolan’s relationship is so fun. i didn’t mention this earlier when i stopped at 160 but i like how slow build the relationship is. the metaphor about the string between them is really well done. i like that sharing their trauma with one another is bringing them closer and that is helping them both work through their problems. i really hope amelia chooses to chase her dreams. she continues to address that she wants her snow globe to be on the beach in lochbrook with nolan and i think she should stay. it is obviously hard for to go against jennas plan but dead jenna would be SO PROUD of her for doing what she believes in. also, nolan’s sisters’ death was heart breaking. the fact that he can’t bear to publish the last book because then he has nothing left to hold onto of them that the world doesn’t see. the fact that he (i think) sent the book because he saw how much he could influence someone with his work through the picture jenna showed him. basically i want amelia to stay in lochbrook and i want nolan to publish the book.
* it’s 10:45pm 1/2/22 and i’m gonna try to finish tonight. updates to come. wtf is mr “i like computers more nolan is too much drama” doing talking abt fate lmao. very excited abt marina tho. “shh. pretend with me” MY FUCKING HEART NOLAN STOP IT. pg. 235 train metaphor was a little out of place but i’ll take it. amelias phone call with mark and her reaction to it were both so infuriating. HER REACTION??? why take it out on NOLAN WTF DOES HE HAVE TO DO WITH THIS HOMIE. 263 im so genuinely fucking pissed. i almost want to stop reading. this is so incredibly fucking frustrating. what in the actual hell do u mean she’s just driving away? im mad im so mad im so beyond fucking mad. i didn’t even get the chance to talk abt how much i like the way we got glimpses into nolan’s past through his journals that was so cool. she didn’t turn around. she’s back in texas and i am livid. she went to the grave and now i am just emotional. i have cried three separate times at the text from mark.
* “im sorry hon. i love you. dinner tonight?”
* that was quite possibly the most satisfying ending i’ve ever read. it’s 1:05am. i was so upset because there is so much room in endings for failure. nolan even says his least favorite part of books is the end. he hates ends in books. what is unique about the ending of this book is that feels so much like a beginning yet provides so much closure. the inclusion of the epilogue was also wonderful because u get to explore what happens to the characters without weighing down the ending of the book. the epilogue leaves out alex though which is slightly disappointing but i don’t know how much there is to include. usually, like nolan, i don’t like the endings of great stories because there can be so much more. this book doesn’t leave me wanting more. the ending was perfect, nothing is perfect, this is.
This book was such a much needed palate cleanse from all the fantasy books I have been reading. It deals with loss and grief when Amelia loses her best friend Jenna, in a freak car accident before they were to start college. Right before Jenna’s passing Amelia and her had a fight about meeting a writer Amelia really admires. This was definalty an emotional rollercoaster, just following Amelia as she tries to sort her life out and deal with her grief. I loved that N.E. Endsley was just a flawed as Ameilia and going through his own grief. All to often the love interesting is not as flawed and is seen more as the white knight come to save the main character by showing her the happy things in life she is missing out on. With this book its more of a these two flawed grieving people are both making the journey together to get through their grief and move on with life. Defiantly recommend this book.
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Amazing!!!!! This book sucks you in from the first chapter and you are easily immersed within the story. I cried, laughed, smiled, cheered, and every other emotion with the characters.
Thank you so much to St. Martin’s Publishing Company for the advanced copy. This was amazing
Thank you so much to St. Martin’s Publishing Company for the advanced copy. This was amazing
I don't know but something rubbed me wrong about this book. It might be the insta-we-were-always-meant-to-do romance or the fact that the timeline should have been longer but cute concept just wish something different happened.
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes