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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
Mia and Ollie.
Two completes opposites. LITERALLY.
Even though there were times one side of my brain said “no it’s too fast” the other side would say “shut up, it makes sense”. THEY MADE SENSE.
IT. FUCKING. DID! (Please excuse my language in here)
Now, just to start of, this book does touch on topics that may be too much or triggering for those. I won’t say what they are on this review, but if you’re someone who needs specific trigger warnings please do message me, I’ll share with you.
Okay okay, so I cant lie.. the first 20% of the book had me going a bit crazy and it was a bit hard for me to get into because a lot was happening at once and it felt quick. However, it does progress and it begins to get better and better each time. I was hooked.
Mia definitely peaked my interest the most. I was curious to know why she was the way she was. The emotional detachment had me trying to figure her out. I wanted to jump in her head. To get to know her. She peaked my curiosity and when all is revealed I just wanted to jump into the book and scream with her.
As the story goes on you learn more about Mia and Ollie.. and things start to make sense.
And suck you in.
Especially with Nicole Fiorina’s poetic way of writing. I swear every description, every time Ollie spoke, I was RIGHT THERE. God, honestly, Ollie can talk to me all day. Please. Just talk me to sleep.
So it’s safe to say I was into this till the very end. The truths, the drama, the intensity, the twists!!!!!!!! THE THINGS I DIDN’T SEE COMING!!!!!
Listen. LIS. TEN!!!!!!
If keyboard smashing was an emotion I felt it throughout the whole book because HOLY FUCK. HOLY FUUUUUCCK!!!!
I mean..... JSOEOCOEOCOSKWOCOEJXIDK!!!!!!!!!!!
LIKE EXCUSE ME????????
Definitely glad I got over that whole first 20% issue because it was so worth it.
If anyone needs me I’ll be losing my mind until I read book numero dos because of the way it ended.
xoxo,
Mia’s number one protector over and out.
Two completes opposites. LITERALLY.
Even though there were times one side of my brain said “no it’s too fast” the other side would say “shut up, it makes sense”. THEY MADE SENSE.
IT. FUCKING. DID! (Please excuse my language in here)
Now, just to start of, this book does touch on topics that may be too much or triggering for those. I won’t say what they are on this review, but if you’re someone who needs specific trigger warnings please do message me, I’ll share with you.
Okay okay, so I cant lie.. the first 20% of the book had me going a bit crazy and it was a bit hard for me to get into because a lot was happening at once and it felt quick. However, it does progress and it begins to get better and better each time. I was hooked.
Mia definitely peaked my interest the most. I was curious to know why she was the way she was. The emotional detachment had me trying to figure her out. I wanted to jump in her head. To get to know her. She peaked my curiosity and when all is revealed I just wanted to jump into the book and scream with her.
As the story goes on you learn more about Mia and Ollie.. and things start to make sense.
And suck you in.
Especially with Nicole Fiorina’s poetic way of writing. I swear every description, every time Ollie spoke, I was RIGHT THERE. God, honestly, Ollie can talk to me all day. Please. Just talk me to sleep.
So it’s safe to say I was into this till the very end. The truths, the drama, the intensity, the twists!!!!!!!! THE THINGS I DIDN’T SEE COMING!!!!!
Listen. LIS. TEN!!!!!!
If keyboard smashing was an emotion I felt it throughout the whole book because HOLY FUCK. HOLY FUUUUUCCK!!!!
I mean..... JSOEOCOEOCOSKWOCOEJXIDK!!!!!!!!!!!
LIKE EXCUSE ME????????
Definitely glad I got over that whole first 20% issue because it was so worth it.
If anyone needs me I’ll be losing my mind until I read book numero dos because of the way it ended.
xoxo,
Mia’s number one protector over and out.
This was originally going to be a 3.5 stars, but the demonization of psychiatric medicine turned me off and brought it to a 2.5.
As someone who has been on many a pharmaceutical, I felt like this has the potential to deter readers from pursuing psychiatric help. I won't go too into depth at the caution of spoilers, but I am worried this could be harmful.
Aside from this the, plot and characters themselves are just alright. I feel like I would have eaten this up when I was younger, but to me the insta-love wasn't believable (even if it was claimed to be due to mental illness). Mia is kind of insufferable, but I guess that's the point.
I felt like all of the huge moments in this book had so much build up and would be over in a page or two.
HOWEVER,
I enjoyed the writing style, and the ending was enough for me to entertain the possibility of continuing the trilogy. We shall see.
As someone who has been on many a pharmaceutical, I felt like this has the potential to deter readers from pursuing psychiatric help. I won't go too into depth at the caution of spoilers, but I am worried this could be harmful.
Aside from this the, plot and characters themselves are just alright. I feel like I would have eaten this up when I was younger, but to me the insta-love wasn't believable (even if it was claimed to be due to mental illness). Mia is kind of insufferable, but I guess that's the point.
I felt like all of the huge moments in this book had so much build up and would be over in a page or two.
HOWEVER,
I enjoyed the writing style, and the ending was enough for me to entertain the possibility of continuing the trilogy. We shall see.
I don’t even know where to start or what to say. This book was dark and deep and I’ve never read anything like it. It was also beautiful in a lot of ways.
I love how Ollie and Mia are opposites in that she “can’t” feel emotions and he feels “too much.”
There is a lot of trauma within both characters and it was sad but I loved Mia’s character development. On the other hand, I’m so sad for Ollie now with how it turned around in the end…
I immediately ordered all 3 books and am really excited to dive into book 2!
I love how Ollie and Mia are opposites in that she “can’t” feel emotions and he feels “too much.”
There is a lot of trauma within both characters and it was sad but I loved Mia’s character development. On the other hand, I’m so sad for Ollie now with how it turned around in the end…
I immediately ordered all 3 books and am really excited to dive into book 2!
"In the beginning, I'd thought you'd be fun, and I'd thought I could leave you effortlessly. It was me who ripped hearts out, but now mine was the one bleeding. The walls surrounding me had been durable, indestructible, before you." -Nicole Fiorina
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
Thoughts: Wow. I cannot believe this is Fiorina's book debut. Her writing style is incredibly beautiful; it's emotional, raw and almost poetic. The book follows 19-year-old Mia, who is sent to a reform college in the UK (Dolor University) after a series of delinquent acts. If she can't make it at Dolor, her next stop will be a mental institution. It is at Dolor that Mia meets Oliver Masters, a young man who is immediately taken with her and will stop at nothing to break down the walls that she's built around herself. Whereas Mia is an "empty shell", unable to feel empathy (or anything else for that matter), Ollie "wears his emotions on his sleeves". The story is told from Mia's POV (which was a great choice IMO) because we get to see what it's like inside the mind of a young woman who's described as having sociopathic tendencies. But she wasn't always this way. Early on we learn that Mia suffered some sort of trauma as a child and her mind's way of coping with this was to unconsciously shut off her emotions. But as she begins spending time with Ollie, her emotions start to make their way to the surface. He can discover so much about her just by looking into her eyes (the windows to her soul). When they're a dark brown, he knows shes "gone", retreated behind the safety of her shell. But when her eyes are a golden brown, he knows the true Mia, "his" Mia, is staring back at him. Around Ollie she's vulnerable, exposed...it's intriguing yet terrifying for Mia. To her, Ollie represents "light" and she doesn't want to "suffocate" him with her darkness.
Confession: Ollie has claimed the top spot in my "best book boyfriends" list. I mean, it's hard to resist a guy who says things like: "This girl is my heaven./ With lips of an angel,/ the sweet taste of mercy lingers./ She has halos in her eyes, and my heart beats to the sound of her wings."
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
Thoughts: Wow. I cannot believe this is Fiorina's book debut. Her writing style is incredibly beautiful; it's emotional, raw and almost poetic. The book follows 19-year-old Mia, who is sent to a reform college in the UK (Dolor University) after a series of delinquent acts. If she can't make it at Dolor, her next stop will be a mental institution. It is at Dolor that Mia meets Oliver Masters, a young man who is immediately taken with her and will stop at nothing to break down the walls that she's built around herself. Whereas Mia is an "empty shell", unable to feel empathy (or anything else for that matter), Ollie "wears his emotions on his sleeves". The story is told from Mia's POV (which was a great choice IMO) because we get to see what it's like inside the mind of a young woman who's described as having sociopathic tendencies. But she wasn't always this way. Early on we learn that Mia suffered some sort of trauma as a child and her mind's way of coping with this was to unconsciously shut off her emotions. But as she begins spending time with Ollie, her emotions start to make their way to the surface. He can discover so much about her just by looking into her eyes (the windows to her soul). When they're a dark brown, he knows shes "gone", retreated behind the safety of her shell. But when her eyes are a golden brown, he knows the true Mia, "his" Mia, is staring back at him. Around Ollie she's vulnerable, exposed...it's intriguing yet terrifying for Mia. To her, Ollie represents "light" and she doesn't want to "suffocate" him with her darkness.
Confession: Ollie has claimed the top spot in my "best book boyfriends" list. I mean, it's hard to resist a guy who says things like: "This girl is my heaven./ With lips of an angel,/ the sweet taste of mercy lingers./ She has halos in her eyes, and my heart beats to the sound of her wings."
“There’s a fire within her, golden embers in her eyes. She burns into me so deep that even breathing hurts.”
“I need you to feel for me, and once you do, I need you to stay.”
“And suddenly I wasn’t falling anymore. I was flying.”
“Emotional intensity. Basically, I feel too much, while you feel nothing.”
“You never have to worry, love. You have me completely. You so fucking have me.”
“I didn’t know much about love, but one thing he had taught me was to embrace it. Seize it as soon as it touches you. Drown in the feeling when it penetrates your soul.”
“He looked at me as if he got lost and found in me all at once. My presence still affected him, and his eyes grasped on me — clinging for life — in case I disappeared.”
“I felt peace, undeniably calm in her existence. I felt resurrected, awakened, and I didn’t know how I had lived this long without this privilege of being in her presence.”
OMG! This book got me so hooked I couldn’t put it down, I love love love how much Ollie loves, I relate to him and Mia so much in the aspect of feeling too much and nothing at all. Felt all the emotions and I loved every second of it, I do not want to finish this series but I also can’t get enough of Ollie and Mia I love their love. Look up trigger warnings before you read, but I definitely recommend!
“I need you to feel for me, and once you do, I need you to stay.”
“And suddenly I wasn’t falling anymore. I was flying.”
“Emotional intensity. Basically, I feel too much, while you feel nothing.”
“You never have to worry, love. You have me completely. You so fucking have me.”
“I didn’t know much about love, but one thing he had taught me was to embrace it. Seize it as soon as it touches you. Drown in the feeling when it penetrates your soul.”
“He looked at me as if he got lost and found in me all at once. My presence still affected him, and his eyes grasped on me — clinging for life — in case I disappeared.”
“I felt peace, undeniably calm in her existence. I felt resurrected, awakened, and I didn’t know how I had lived this long without this privilege of being in her presence.”
OMG! This book got me so hooked I couldn’t put it down, I love love love how much Ollie loves, I relate to him and Mia so much in the aspect of feeling too much and nothing at all. Felt all the emotions and I loved every second of it, I do not want to finish this series but I also can’t get enough of Ollie and Mia I love their love. Look up trigger warnings before you read, but I definitely recommend!
my friends love this with their whole heart and I value my sanity too much to talk about any issues I have with another of their faves.... so I'm choosing to embrace the journey
I did enjoy this
I did enjoy this
emotional
inspiring
sad
Alors que dire de ce livre je l'ai beaucoup aimé les personnages de Ollie et Mia sont vraiment hyper attachant et ils ont fin surtout Mia a une belle évolution grâce à lui. Ollie bookboyfriend a fond vraiment je l'ai adoré.
Les références à la musique etc vraiment c'était trop bien. Leurs relations est assez fluide et touchante
Mais bordel ils ont pas de chance ça me rend dingue et j'espère qu'ils auront leurs happy end
Les références à la musique etc vraiment c'était trop bien. Leurs relations est assez fluide et touchante
Mais bordel ils ont pas de chance ça me rend dingue et j'espère qu'ils auront leurs happy end
It took me a little while to get into this book but once I did get into it I really enjoyed it! I get why everyone loved this book. The writing was beautiful. I loved how Ollie didn’t give up on Mia. I especially loved the moments where Ollie could tell by her eyes that her walls were closing and he told her to “stay with me” I can tell why everyone loved this book, and although it wasn’t my absolute favourite the writing was beautiful
"Until I met you, I never thought about a tomorrow..."
What happens when someone who feels too much meets someone who feels nothing? Chaos and love, it's what happens. I loved every minute of this book, Mia and Ollie are one of my all time favorite couples. This book follows very damaged characters who are just trying to find themselves in this world and live their lives as good as they can. I honestly have no words to describe the feelings I had while reading, it was emotional, dark, heartbreaking, funny, and beautiful.
"I’m not going to save you, Mia. I don’t want to be the one. I’m going to show you how to save yourself."
What happens when someone who feels too much meets someone who feels nothing? Chaos and love, it's what happens. I loved every minute of this book, Mia and Ollie are one of my all time favorite couples. This book follows very damaged characters who are just trying to find themselves in this world and live their lives as good as they can. I honestly have no words to describe the feelings I had while reading, it was emotional, dark, heartbreaking, funny, and beautiful.
"I’m not going to save you, Mia. I don’t want to be the one. I’m going to show you how to save yourself."