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augustar14's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Coming back from the dead isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially when it's been 5 years. Everyone expected it would be 80+ years, or not at all. But five years. For Travis, it was like falling asleep then waking back up- a really long nap. But for everyone else, life kept going. That makes for a pretty complicated (second) life to wade through, especially when trying to navigate second sophomore year as a sixteen-but-also-kind-of-twenty-one year old. But also still definitely sixteen. And being sixteen is hard, the first time, but especially the second.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Grief
Moderate: Abandonment, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Cancer, Cursing, and Death
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Stalking, Infidelity, and Alcohol
strawberrytheauthor's review
funny
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
There was no character development. I know that Travis is going through it, but seriously!!! He just kept going after Cate even when she was engaged and clearly set boundaries. The way he butted into Kyle’s life and acted as though he knew him better than Kyle himself was the worst.
Travis deserves better and he deserved to learn how to be a better person before the last chapter. I should have stopped reading, but to its credit this book kept me reading. Something about it kept me going. Maybe it was the breaking of the 4th wall or the way John Whaley was able to personify a 16 year old lost in time.
This book all in all is not worth it in my opinion, but I’m not entirely mad I read it.
Travis deserves better and he deserved to learn how to be a better person before the last chapter. I should have stopped reading, but to its credit this book kept me reading. Something about it kept me going. Maybe it was the breaking of the 4th wall or the way John Whaley was able to personify a 16 year old lost in time.
This book all in all is not worth it in my opinion, but I’m not entirely mad I read it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief, Medical content, Cancer, Child death, and Terminal illness
Minor: Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Violence, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts
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