A review by rhea_mak
Find Me by André Aciman

1.0

I like his writing, but it’s crossing a border to where it’s pretentious and obnoxious. The plot is all over the place, and the theme I got from this is older men like to date people who are their kid’s age. All the characters hold no importance for fidelity and absolutely no one cares what their partner does. Oliver tell his wife he’s leaving her and she just says okay??? With no arguments or concerns??? Eliot dad falls in love and plans his entire life with a woman he met on a train a day ago, and the writer expects us to just accept it as fact. There’s a random mystery with one of Elio’s lovers where they try to figure something out to add some substance to the book i guess, but it feels like a filler and it’s oddly misplaced, but sadly it’s one of the more interesting parts. It has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the book, it just sits there. I’m starting to resent these characters that I adored in the first book. His dad was my favorite, and now i just hate him. He comes off as some sort of predator. Oliver does too, when he talks about sleeping with a man and a woman at his party who are both with their partners. ELIO’S PARTNER, MICHEL, MAKES TEA IN THE MICROWAVE!!!! There’s parts of the writing that I enjoyed so it’s not completely hopeless, where you get glimpses of what we all liked about the first book, then it goes downhill again. Mostly, it feels like Aciman just wrote about his fantasy world where he can date people young enough to be his kids and cheating is a non-existent concept. It’s just extremely disappointing.