Scan barcode
A review by hezann73
He Forgot to Say Goodbye by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
5.0
Ramiro Lopez and Jake Upthegrove are the same age and attend school in adjacent buildings, but other than that, they don’t have much in common. So why do the two become cautious friends? Well, they both think almost everything that goes wrong in their lives has to do with their absent fathers.
This was an amazing and moving book. It definitely reads more on the “adult” end of “young adult” and it would take a dedicated reader. There isn’t a lot of action to the story, but it’s beautifully told. The language just swept me away. I could picture everything about Ram and Jake with no problem. They were real to me. Probably because they were complex. Ram is almost perfect to everyone around him, but he holds so much pain inside. Jake is an ….well, I was going to use another “a” word, but we’ll just say he’s a jerk. I couldn’t stand him at all for most of the book , but as he becomes closer to Ram you see hints of what might make girls call him sweet.
This will never be the most popular teen book and my guess is that it will sit on the shelf a lot, but I honestly think teens that pick it up will be rewarded
This was an amazing and moving book. It definitely reads more on the “adult” end of “young adult” and it would take a dedicated reader. There isn’t a lot of action to the story, but it’s beautifully told. The language just swept me away. I could picture everything about Ram and Jake with no problem. They were real to me. Probably because they were complex. Ram is almost perfect to everyone around him, but he holds so much pain inside. Jake is an ….well, I was going to use another “a” word, but we’ll just say he’s a jerk. I couldn’t stand him at all for most of the book , but as he becomes closer to Ram you see hints of what might make girls call him sweet.
This will never be the most popular teen book and my guess is that it will sit on the shelf a lot, but I honestly think teens that pick it up will be rewarded