5.0

‘I want to hug Penny, and so I do, and I tell her she can still love this flawed thing. I tell her it will be a different love, a little sadder maybe, but wiser, too. I tell her that if we can’t love flawed things, we probably wouldn’t love anything at all.’

The best book I read in 2019! This is a fantastic book that has a very unique premise. Noah has four very unique fascinations. Two I think are the most interesting are: daily he watches this video of the of a lady who takes a picture of herself every day for forty years. And there is a picture a disgraced singer that was left after he stormed out of a school presentation, it is of this younger man and it has a very odd inscription on the back.

After getting in a rut in his life, Noah ends up getting hypnotized. Everything is off, even in the smallest ways, but his strange fascinations are the same. Trying to get back to normal, he decides to try and look for the people in his strange fascinations for answers.

I was very skeptical about how this book was going to end. I thought it would be a bad cliché, like ‘waking up, it was all a dream’. But it was a great ending, and one I wasn’t expecting! Would definitely recommend this book!