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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
emotional
sad
fast-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Car accident
Unha historia de fadas moderna, empalagosa e demasiado flower power para o meu gusto.
Se ben o xiro argumental a metade do libro (máis ou menos) estivo ben e non era o que me esperaba, o final é demasido noño, unicornios e purpurina para o meu gusto.
Se ben o xiro argumental a metade do libro (máis ou menos) estivo ben e non era o que me esperaba, o final é demasido noño, unicornios e purpurina para o meu gusto.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The book I was expecting: a lighthearted, cheesy, romantic comedy book with cute lines and happy feelings.
The book I got: an ethereal, grieving, hopeful romantic book with heavier themes and seemingly impossible endings.
The book I got was better than the book I expected. You'll get sucking into this dreamt, fairy-tale-like story, and wish for the same yourself. :)
The book I got: an ethereal, grieving, hopeful romantic book with heavier themes and seemingly impossible endings.
The book I got was better than the book I expected. You'll get sucking into this dreamt, fairy-tale-like story, and wish for the same yourself. :)
Honestly, this was just weird. I read it within a couple hours because just wanted to know how it ended.
The whole story was very all-over-the-place. The synopsis makes it seem like the plot is just car crash then Kyle falling in love with Marley then big plot twist. In reality, it’s more like car crash, then Kyle falling in love with Marley, then weird confusing plot twist, then even more smaller weird plot twists until the (not very satisfying) ending. To say the least, I was pretty confused the whole time.
I also didn’t love the characters. It was established many times in the book that Kyle was self-centered and selfish, which I didn’t understand the point of. Why make a character have a bad quality if they don’t overcome that quality? I also didn’t like Marley very much, and there is nothing I hate more in a book than two people falling in love when they are both crappy characters.
I was expecting so much more from these authors. Five Feet Apart is one of my all-time favorite books, and my expectations shouldn’t have been as high for this one.
All This Time was a good book, but I would recommend reading it thoroughly and not cruising through it like it did. The main redeeming part of it was the additional chapter at the end (I’m not sure, but I think this was only in Barnes and Noble editions). The chapter had Stella and a few other Five Feet Apart characters in it, but not Will, which I was sad about, but it was still a good addition to the novel.
The whole story was very all-over-the-place. The synopsis makes it seem like the plot is just car crash then Kyle falling in love with Marley then big plot twist. In reality, it’s more like car crash, then Kyle falling in love with Marley, then weird confusing plot twist, then even more smaller weird plot twists until the (not very satisfying) ending. To say the least, I was pretty confused the whole time.
I also didn’t love the characters. It was established many times in the book that Kyle was self-centered and selfish, which I didn’t understand the point of. Why make a character have a bad quality if they don’t overcome that quality? I also didn’t like Marley very much, and there is nothing I hate more in a book than two people falling in love when they are both crappy characters.
I was expecting so much more from these authors. Five Feet Apart is one of my all-time favorite books, and my expectations shouldn’t have been as high for this one.
All This Time was a good book, but I would recommend reading it thoroughly and not cruising through it like it did. The main redeeming part of it was the additional chapter at the end (I’m not sure, but I think this was only in Barnes and Noble editions). The chapter had Stella and a few other Five Feet Apart characters in it, but not Will, which I was sad about, but it was still a good addition to the novel.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This is my first long review, so please bear with me here:
Spoilers ahead!
I don’t think a story has hit me so hard in the feels since Fault in our Stars. This was an emotional rollercoaster the entire way. It was very well written and had me pulled in right from the start. I finished it in one day (thank god for slow work days and 2x audio speed!)
I felt the sadness when Kyle finds out that Kim had died, the despair when he was trying to move on from her and struggling to continue to live, and the confusion when he met Marley and not understanding the feelings he was having for her. The relief when he finally decided to move on, the happiness he was starting to feel now that his life was back on track, and the love for Marley.
But of course, the happiness was too good to be true. I feel like I should have seen that twist coming! Everything was falling into place, time was going by too fast (Halloween, Christmas, New Years, summer all in a matter for pages), he landed a dream job without an interview (does that ever actually happen?), he was finally happy and at peace with everything. Typical set up for everything to fall apart.
Finding out it was a coma made me feel like I was back in the movie theatre, watching Twilight: Breaking Dawn part 2 for the first time when the entire theatre was shocked to find out that the whole battle and all the deaths they were mourning was just a vision from Alice (of course, if you read the book, you know this didn’t happen and was a movie ploy).
My heart felt like it was ripped out of my chest. All that happiness, the success, all the life changing realizations: all fake. I was just as shocked as he was, trying to figure it all out. All I wanted to do was help him solve the question: who was Marley and how did he have this dream that felt so real? Was it his brain messing with him?
I was so happy for him when he figured out that he had seen her face before (when being treated after the accident - hinted at early in the book, again something else I feel I should have caught). And the realization that she had been writing their story and reading it to him when she thought he couldn’t hear, the only person she had spoken to in years, just hit me.
And lastly, the moment when we thought it was all for nothing. I’ll be honest, I was listening to it as an audiobook while I was driving home from work - probably not the best idea, considering how this story started, but I made it home safe! My hands were gripping the steering wheel, white knuckled. I was shaking my head, “No, this couldn’t happen, not after everything he went through trying to find her again and finally getting her to talk to him!”. I’m pretty sure if I wasn’t driving, I would have been a sobbing mess. As it was, I was tearing up a bit.
In the end, I am very satisfied with how this story was written. I was drawn in to the characters and the story. The humour, whit and the typical teenage male attitude throughout had me laughing out loud! I was expecting a 3-4 star read, but was pleasantly with how much I actually enjoyed it!
Spoilers ahead!
I don’t think a story has hit me so hard in the feels since Fault in our Stars. This was an emotional rollercoaster the entire way. It was very well written and had me pulled in right from the start. I finished it in one day (thank god for slow work days and 2x audio speed!)
I felt the sadness when Kyle finds out that Kim had died, the despair when he was trying to move on from her and struggling to continue to live, and the confusion when he met Marley and not understanding the feelings he was having for her. The relief when he finally decided to move on, the happiness he was starting to feel now that his life was back on track, and the love for Marley.
But of course, the happiness was too good to be true. I feel like I should have seen that twist coming! Everything was falling into place, time was going by too fast (Halloween, Christmas, New Years, summer all in a matter for pages), he landed a dream job without an interview (does that ever actually happen?), he was finally happy and at peace with everything. Typical set up for everything to fall apart.
Finding out it was a coma made me feel like I was back in the movie theatre, watching Twilight: Breaking Dawn part 2 for the first time when the entire theatre was shocked to find out that the whole battle and all the deaths they were mourning was just a vision from Alice (of course, if you read the book, you know this didn’t happen and was a movie ploy).
My heart felt like it was ripped out of my chest. All that happiness, the success, all the life changing realizations: all fake. I was just as shocked as he was, trying to figure it all out. All I wanted to do was help him solve the question: who was Marley and how did he have this dream that felt so real? Was it his brain messing with him?
I was so happy for him when he figured out that he had seen her face before (when being treated after the accident - hinted at early in the book, again something else I feel I should have caught). And the realization that she had been writing their story and reading it to him when she thought he couldn’t hear, the only person she had spoken to in years, just hit me.
And lastly, the moment when we thought it was all for nothing. I’ll be honest, I was listening to it as an audiobook while I was driving home from work - probably not the best idea, considering how this story started, but I made it home safe! My hands were gripping the steering wheel, white knuckled. I was shaking my head, “No, this couldn’t happen, not after everything he went through trying to find her again and finally getting her to talk to him!”. I’m pretty sure if I wasn’t driving, I would have been a sobbing mess. As it was, I was tearing up a bit.
In the end, I am very satisfied with how this story was written. I was drawn in to the characters and the story. The humour, whit and the typical teenage male attitude throughout had me laughing out loud! I was expecting a 3-4 star read, but was pleasantly with how much I actually enjoyed it!
This was a surreal book. The first half began like really any other teen book but then it took a shocking turn that I wasn't expecting. After that I was both intrigued and hooked. For a few days I couldn't stop thinking about it. The plot was far fetched, but the authors were trying to write a modern day fairytale, so it worked. Did I like this better than their other book Five Feet Apart? No, but it definitely exceeded my expectations.