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Find Me by André Aciman

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majowa's review against another edition

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emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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roxy_reads_romance's review against another edition

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slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

3.5 stars for the prose:

"It takes me a while to get used to someone. Maybe nerves, though I don't feel nervous with you—which makes me plenty nervous in itself. I don't want to be nervous."

This story is told from the POVs of Elio's dad, Samuel, Elio and Oliver a few decades after Call Me By Your Name. Without reading the synopsis, I mistakenly thought the sequel was only about Elio's dad and him meeting Elio's mother in the past but I was completely wrong haha.

The author's prose is beautiful as always even if I didn't enjoy the age gap romances or found any coherence between the parts. It irked me that the characters even acknowledged that they were in a romantic relationship with someone their children's age (for Samuel's romance with Miranda) / parent's age (for Elio's romance with Michel). Maybe I just can't personally see myself ever being attracted to someone twice my age...

In Tempo, the story revolves around Elio's dad, Samuel, who meets a young woman on a train and they fall in love over the course of a day or so. But at that point, he has already divorced his wife and his life is like rekindled after meeting the true 'love of his life'. And we find out at the end of the book that he had a son with her and named him after Oliver.

Then in Cadenza, it's about Elio involved with a man twice his age named Michel. I was disappointed actually because I was expecting a reunion with Oliver and instead got a fleeting romance with a new character I didn't care about.

In Cappricio, Oliver's POV was disjointed as well and it confused me at first why he was thinking about two other new characters, Erica and Paul, with whom he wanted a relationship with while he was married... But at least his wife seemed to always know maybe that he would never love her in that sense?

But at the end of the day, in the final part, Da Capo, Oliver returns to Elio in Italy and they decide to live together. I don't understand why Oliver just didn't stay in the first place and decided to go get married to someone he didn't want to be with and have kids if he was always going to think back to Elio.

I wished this book had focused more on Elio and Oliver instead of introducing several new passing characters. I think I would've enjoyed the story more if it had been written that way.

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layla_tully's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Slow at times but is beautiful. Shows life lessons

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alyssadavis's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

Some people maybe brokenhearted not because they’ve been hurt because they’ve never found someone who mattered enough to hurt them.

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bridgetwestphal's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

pls didn’t read it lol it’s so bad but incase u are a call me by ur name fan here is the ending...

the dad meets like a 20 year old on a train and falls inlove and then he has a child with her i think and elio and oliver meet again and the dad dies so they keep the child and raise it as their own in italy together

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ankanka's review against another edition

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The first part of the book (there are three parts, first one about Elios dad, second about Elio and third part about Oliver) was so long and uninteresting. It was so boring to read about an old man's mid-life crisis and his "infatuation" with a woman around his sons age. TW for the next sentence (incest and underage sexual activites), marked in cursive. And there's 3 pages of graphic incest Between the young woman when she was 15 or 16 and her 18 year old brother. Theres also a lot of explicit sex and sexual activities between elios dad and the young woman that are just cringe to read. Half of the book is about him and its quite frankly very boring. It was not worth finishing tbh. I might pick it up again but skip the father part all together.

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