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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Knížka se mi četla velmi rychle a určitě má zajímavou zápletku. Líbí se mi také, že je psaná z pohledu chlapce. Měla jsem ale trochu problém s jednou částí na konci, kdy se Kyle napojí na Marley v jejím "komatu/snu" a snaží se ji přesvědčit, aby zůstala mezi živými. Kylovo snění mi nevadilo, naopak mi dávalo smysl. Ale tahle část mi lehce zkazila celkový dojem z knížky, protože mi přišla jako něco spíše pro mladší čtenáře.
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Ich bin ein riesiger Fan von Drei Schritte zu Dir. ich habe das buch und auch den Film geliebt. Ich mochte sie wegen ihrer Emotionalität und Ehrlichkeit. Ich hatte um ehrlich zu sein ein wenig Angst, dass All This Time nicht mithalten könnte. Aber meine Sorge war unbegründet. Das Buch war einfach nur großartig!
Darum geht's: Nachdem seine Freundin Kimberley bei einem Autounfall ums Leben kam, ist Kyle in der Trauer versunken. Er und Kimberley waren seit der 9 Klasse das perfekte Paar und hatten eine perfekte geplante Zukunft, doch mit einem Schlag hat sich Kyles Leben geändert. Doch dann trifft Kyle Marley. Sie hat ähnliches durchgemacht wie er und ist die einzige, die ihn versteht. Das was als Freundschaft anfängt wird bald mehr und Kyle muss sich der Frage stellen, ob er nach Kimberley immer noch lieben darf.
Die Idee: Die Idee des Buches fand ich von Anfang an toll. Ich war super gespannt auf die Umsetzung den Trauerbewältigung ist erst einmal kein neues Thema und wenn es schlecht umgesetzt wird, kann es einfach nur anödend und vor allem deprimierend sein. Dass war bei All This Time eindeutig nicht der Fall. Es war gefühlvoll und emotional dargestellt.
Zur Storyline: Ich war sofort in der Geschichte drin. Es hat sich einfach sofort Spannung aufgebbaut und ich bin nur so über die Seite geflogen und konnte gar nicht mehr aufhören zu lesen. Die Geschichte hat sich weder zu schnell noch zu langsam entwickelt, es war gerade genau richtig. So in der Mitte des Buches gab es eine Stelle wo es gerade anfing ein bisschen langweilig zu werden, aber dann kam eine überraschende Wendung, die ich überhaupt nicht habe kommen sehen, die alles noch einmal tausendmal besser gemacht hat. Das Ende war auch toll. Ich hätte da zwar eine Kleinigkeit anders gemacht, es tut dem Buch allerdings keinerlei Abbruch.
Die Charaktere: Kyle und Marley sind die beiden Hauptcharaktere. Sie haben beide mit einem tragischen Verlust zu kämpfen und weder für den einen noch für den anderen ist das Leben besonders anders. Die Geschichte wird aus Kyles Sich in der Ich-Perspektive erzählt, dadurch bekommt man recht schnell einen guten Eindruck auf Kyles Persönlichkeit und seine Gedankengänge. Nichtdestotrotz konnte ich ihn am Anfang einfach überhaupt nicht einschätzen, ich wusste nicht ob ich ihn hassen oder lieben sollte. Aber irgendwann als ich immer besser kennengelernt habe mochte ich ihn immer mehr und konnte ihn Wirklich fest ins Herz schließen. Mein absoluter Lieblingscharaktere in diesem Buch war aber Marley. Schon als sie das erste Mal aufgetaucht ist mochte ich sie super gerne. Ich mochte ihre Art, sie war so sympathisch. Besonders toll an ihr fand ich ihre Geschichten, die waren wirklich einfach wunderschön. Die Nebencharaktere mochte ich auch gerne. Es gab nicht wirklich viele, aber die paar wenigen waren wirklich schön ausgearbeitet und mir sympathisch.
Der Schreibstill: Ich habe oben schon einmal erwähnt, dass ich nur so über die Seiten geflogen bin, dass lag zum einen an der Geschichte aber auch an dem tollen Schreibstill. Er war wirklich emotional. Man konnte die Gefühle und Gedankengänge der einzelnen Personen gut nachvollziehen. Alles in allem wirklich toll.
Mein Fazit: Ein tolles Buch was sich auf alle Fälle lohnt zu lesen. Für mich passt es perfekt in den Frühling. Es ist irgendwie so aufbauend und erzählt eine ermunternde Geschichte, genau das was man nach dem grauen Winter braucht. Eine große Empfehlung an alle die Drei Schritte zu Dir geliebt haben, aber auch an all die, die es noch nicht gelesen. Lest dieses Buch, ihr werdet es nicht bereuen.
Darum geht's: Nachdem seine Freundin Kimberley bei einem Autounfall ums Leben kam, ist Kyle in der Trauer versunken. Er und Kimberley waren seit der 9 Klasse das perfekte Paar und hatten eine perfekte geplante Zukunft, doch mit einem Schlag hat sich Kyles Leben geändert. Doch dann trifft Kyle Marley. Sie hat ähnliches durchgemacht wie er und ist die einzige, die ihn versteht. Das was als Freundschaft anfängt wird bald mehr und Kyle muss sich der Frage stellen, ob er nach Kimberley immer noch lieben darf.
Die Idee: Die Idee des Buches fand ich von Anfang an toll. Ich war super gespannt auf die Umsetzung den Trauerbewältigung ist erst einmal kein neues Thema und wenn es schlecht umgesetzt wird, kann es einfach nur anödend und vor allem deprimierend sein. Dass war bei All This Time eindeutig nicht der Fall. Es war gefühlvoll und emotional dargestellt.
Zur Storyline: Ich war sofort in der Geschichte drin. Es hat sich einfach sofort Spannung aufgebbaut und ich bin nur so über die Seite geflogen und konnte gar nicht mehr aufhören zu lesen. Die Geschichte hat sich weder zu schnell noch zu langsam entwickelt, es war gerade genau richtig. So in der Mitte des Buches gab es eine Stelle wo es gerade anfing ein bisschen langweilig zu werden, aber dann kam eine überraschende Wendung, die ich überhaupt nicht habe kommen sehen, die alles noch einmal tausendmal besser gemacht hat. Das Ende war auch toll. Ich hätte da zwar eine Kleinigkeit anders gemacht, es tut dem Buch allerdings keinerlei Abbruch.
Die Charaktere: Kyle und Marley sind die beiden Hauptcharaktere. Sie haben beide mit einem tragischen Verlust zu kämpfen und weder für den einen noch für den anderen ist das Leben besonders anders. Die Geschichte wird aus Kyles Sich in der Ich-Perspektive erzählt, dadurch bekommt man recht schnell einen guten Eindruck auf Kyles Persönlichkeit und seine Gedankengänge. Nichtdestotrotz konnte ich ihn am Anfang einfach überhaupt nicht einschätzen, ich wusste nicht ob ich ihn hassen oder lieben sollte. Aber irgendwann als ich immer besser kennengelernt habe mochte ich ihn immer mehr und konnte ihn Wirklich fest ins Herz schließen. Mein absoluter Lieblingscharaktere in diesem Buch war aber Marley. Schon als sie das erste Mal aufgetaucht ist mochte ich sie super gerne. Ich mochte ihre Art, sie war so sympathisch. Besonders toll an ihr fand ich ihre Geschichten, die waren wirklich einfach wunderschön. Die Nebencharaktere mochte ich auch gerne. Es gab nicht wirklich viele, aber die paar wenigen waren wirklich schön ausgearbeitet und mir sympathisch.
Der Schreibstill: Ich habe oben schon einmal erwähnt, dass ich nur so über die Seiten geflogen bin, dass lag zum einen an der Geschichte aber auch an dem tollen Schreibstill. Er war wirklich emotional. Man konnte die Gefühle und Gedankengänge der einzelnen Personen gut nachvollziehen. Alles in allem wirklich toll.
Mein Fazit: Ein tolles Buch was sich auf alle Fälle lohnt zu lesen. Für mich passt es perfekt in den Frühling. Es ist irgendwie so aufbauend und erzählt eine ermunternde Geschichte, genau das was man nach dem grauen Winter braucht. Eine große Empfehlung an alle die Drei Schritte zu Dir geliebt haben, aber auch an all die, die es noch nicht gelesen. Lest dieses Buch, ihr werdet es nicht bereuen.
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I had originally bought this book because of five feet apart and I thought ‘surely if I liked that then I’ll like this?’ And then I read this and knew there was a reason I DNF it the first time I tried to read it last year.
We start off the story with the main character, high school senior Kyle getting broken up with by his on again off again girlfriend Kim at their school prom. They get in to a fight over this while in Kyle’s car and end up getting in to an accident, caused by a freak storm. Kim dies and Kyle then has to learn how to live a life without Kim, and find out who he is as a person. At this point I already didn’t like Kyle that much as a character. He was whiny and selfish and unwilling to accept that as a person he’s problematic.
As the story unfolds and the next year of Kyle’s life progresses- he differs from UCLA, is healing from the accident, learning how to cope with his grief of losing Kim, trying to keep his friendship with his best friend Sam, trying to find out what he wants to do with the rest of his life. And then there’s Marley, the girl he meets at the graveyard where Kim is buried, where Marley’s twin sister is buried and they bond over their grief and trauma.
Over the next year of (sometimes too sickly sweet) friendship turned to a relationship both characters grow as people and learn to deal with their grief, and find new meanings in their lives. Which you know I’m all for a good character arch and redemption so I could get by with this. But it all seemed too good, too fanfictiony… and then the plot twist happened. And that’s when I just had to sit back and things ‘what have I just been reading?’.
All the progress, all the development that happens in the year after the accident is immediately undone. I thought the book had redeemed itself but I was wrong. Kyle becomes obsessive and deranged following the plot twist making him unlikeable as a character again. His loved ones and his health pushed aside to try and live up to his crazy dreams.
And then right at the end, in the very last few pages… another plot twist. I will admit it did have me a little bit teary eyed but again made me sit back and think. ‘What did I just read?’.
The book had so much potential to be better but with an unlikable main character, unnecessary plot twists and an… interesting conclusion it’s safe to say this was not my favourite thing I’ve read. Like I said it felt like a fan fiction. I suppose if you can get by all those things you might enjoy it but this book was not for me.
We start off the story with the main character, high school senior Kyle getting broken up with by his on again off again girlfriend Kim at their school prom. They get in to a fight over this while in Kyle’s car and end up getting in to an accident, caused by a freak storm. Kim dies and Kyle then has to learn how to live a life without Kim, and find out who he is as a person. At this point I already didn’t like Kyle that much as a character. He was whiny and selfish and unwilling to accept that as a person he’s problematic.
As the story unfolds and the next year of Kyle’s life progresses- he differs from UCLA, is healing from the accident, learning how to cope with his grief of losing Kim, trying to keep his friendship with his best friend Sam, trying to find out what he wants to do with the rest of his life. And then there’s Marley, the girl he meets at the graveyard where Kim is buried, where Marley’s twin sister is buried and they bond over their grief and trauma.
Over the next year of (sometimes too sickly sweet) friendship turned to a relationship both characters grow as people and learn to deal with their grief, and find new meanings in their lives. Which you know I’m all for a good character arch and redemption so I could get by with this. But it all seemed too good, too fanfictiony… and then the plot twist happened. And that’s when I just had to sit back and things ‘what have I just been reading?’.
All the progress, all the development that happens in the year after the accident is immediately undone. I thought the book had redeemed itself but I was wrong. Kyle becomes obsessive and deranged following the plot twist making him unlikeable as a character again. His loved ones and his health pushed aside to try and live up to his crazy dreams.
And then right at the end, in the very last few pages… another plot twist. I will admit it did have me a little bit teary eyed but again made me sit back and think. ‘What did I just read?’.
The book had so much potential to be better but with an unlikable main character, unnecessary plot twists and an… interesting conclusion it’s safe to say this was not my favourite thing I’ve read. Like I said it felt like a fan fiction. I suppose if you can get by all those things you might enjoy it but this book was not for me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Blood
Umm.
What on EARTH just happened?
Let me just mentally prepare myself to delve back into this book:
So. All This Time first caught my attention because it is penned by two of the three authors who wrote the bestselling Five Feet Apart, which was quite an idiosyncratic and entertaining read. I expected this novel to be at least somewhat similar.
I was wrong. (SO wrong.)
I mean, even though All This Time claims to be Five Feet Apart's spiritual successor, it didn't strike me as the same vibe at all, in the worst way possible. In All This Time, the main character is irrational and toxic. And that's not even mentioning the absolutely horrible plot, which was what mostly earned the 2-star rating.
The recurring theme in this book is trauma. Basically, the protagonist, Kyle Lafferty, gets broken up with by his lifelong girl Kimberly right off the bat. Then, while they're fighting in Kyle's car about why they don't work together anymore, there's a freak storm that causes Kyle and Kimberly to get in a car crash. Kyle wakes up to learn that Kim is dead. Unable to cope, he defers his dream school, UCLA, which he was supposed to go to in September. After months of nightmares and not really living, he meets Marley, a sweet girl who shares similar trauma. They grow up and get past their trauma together.
Up until this point, I was able to stomach everything. The freak storm and the sudden death were a bit odd, but the story seemed to be going okay. The way things were going, this book was just going to be another fluffy romance novel.
I was WRONG, again.
This is where it gets juicy: in the spoilers.
I know, Kyle. Me too.
I seriously thought that after that, the book couldn't get any weirder.
It did. It most certainly did.
After getting over the shock that the last "year" (which was actually only six weeks) was all a dream, Kyle can't handle the fact that Marley isn't real, and begins to prioritize trying to hunt Marley down over his own health. All the character development he got over the course of his coma-induced dream is thrown out the window. He's obsessive, manipulative, and completely crazy all over again.
I mean, any guesses as to why Kim broke up with him in the first place?
And then, he realizes that Marley is actually a nurse in the hospital he works in. She is literally a nurse who fantasized about her and Kyle being together, so she read him stories about the two being a couple, and Kyle heard her stories while he was in a coma and now believes that he is head over heels in love with her.
Let me just spit this out because I can't say it more than once because it's too weird: AFTER THAT, Kyle and Marley grow back together, they loooove each other even though they literally never even knew each other except for Marley's completely creepy fanfiction, but then Marley almost dies. While she's in the hospital basically on her deathbed, Kyle somehow...spiritually sees...into her mind? Like, he sees Marley trying to join her dead sister, and leaving the human world? WHAT??
And obviously, the ending is happy and blah blah blah.
This was the most forced, toxic, strange book I have ever read. A 1-star rating would have been much more suitable, but for that beautiful cover and the eloquent writing, I have to tack another one on. There are so many attempts at plot twists that it's a confusing, nonsensical pile of pages. I really could have done without this book. I wish I had.
What on EARTH just happened?
Let me just mentally prepare myself to delve back into this book:
So. All This Time first caught my attention because it is penned by two of the three authors who wrote the bestselling Five Feet Apart, which was quite an idiosyncratic and entertaining read. I expected this novel to be at least somewhat similar.
I was wrong. (SO wrong.)
I mean, even though All This Time claims to be Five Feet Apart's spiritual successor, it didn't strike me as the same vibe at all, in the worst way possible. In All This Time, the main character is irrational and toxic. And that's not even mentioning the absolutely horrible plot, which was what mostly earned the 2-star rating.
The recurring theme in this book is trauma. Basically, the protagonist, Kyle Lafferty, gets broken up with by his lifelong girl Kimberly right off the bat. Then, while they're fighting in Kyle's car about why they don't work together anymore, there's a freak storm that causes Kyle and Kimberly to get in a car crash. Kyle wakes up to learn that Kim is dead. Unable to cope, he defers his dream school, UCLA, which he was supposed to go to in September. After months of nightmares and not really living, he meets Marley, a sweet girl who shares similar trauma. They grow up and get past their trauma together.
Up until this point, I was able to stomach everything. The freak storm and the sudden death were a bit odd, but the story seemed to be going okay. The way things were going, this book was just going to be another fluffy romance novel.
I was WRONG, again.
This is where it gets juicy: in the spoilers.
Spoiler
Basically, Kyle wakes up to find that he's been in a COMA. Seriously. So the whole thing with Marley was just a dream. Kim is alive, Marley is gone, and Kyle is scratching his head in confusion, like, "Whaaat?"I know, Kyle. Me too.
I seriously thought that after that, the book couldn't get any weirder.
It did. It most certainly did.
After getting over the shock that the last "year" (which was actually only six weeks) was all a dream, Kyle can't handle the fact that Marley isn't real, and begins to prioritize trying to hunt Marley down over his own health. All the character development he got over the course of his coma-induced dream is thrown out the window. He's obsessive, manipulative, and completely crazy all over again.
I mean, any guesses as to why Kim broke up with him in the first place?
And then, he realizes that Marley is actually a nurse in the hospital he works in. She is literally a nurse who fantasized about her and Kyle being together, so she read him stories about the two being a couple, and Kyle heard her stories while he was in a coma and now believes that he is head over heels in love with her.
Let me just spit this out because I can't say it more than once because it's too weird: AFTER THAT, Kyle and Marley grow back together, they loooove each other even though they literally never even knew each other except for Marley's completely creepy fanfiction, but then Marley almost dies. While she's in the hospital basically on her deathbed, Kyle somehow...spiritually sees...into her mind? Like, he sees Marley trying to join her dead sister, and leaving the human world? WHAT??
And obviously, the ending is happy and blah blah blah.
This was the most forced, toxic, strange book I have ever read. A 1-star rating would have been much more suitable, but for that beautiful cover and the eloquent writing, I have to tack another one on. There are so many attempts at plot twists that it's a confusing, nonsensical pile of pages. I really could have done without this book. I wish I had.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was an amazing book!
Content Warnings
Minor: Cursing, Death, Car accident
omg this book was insane. literally ripped my heart out of my body. snapped it in half. ran over it. shoved it into a blender and then just left it broken. STILL one of the best books i’ve ever read. loved every second of it
Este libro me hizo tan feliz, fue una historia que vivi y sentí cada parte, no le doy 5 estrellas por que al inicio me pareció lento pero eso no le quita que cada vez es más hermoso
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-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:
N/A