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One Plus One
by Jojo Moyes
Okay so I'm going to start by saying that this is not Me Before You. Sure it's that desperate characters meet other desperate characters and create a love story that is so beautiful you don't know what to do, but it's just not the same. And I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. Good things:
1) I didn't cry.
2) I didn't cry.
3) I didn't cry.
Bad things:
1) I didn't cry.
2) I didn't cry.
3) I didn't cry.
I honestly don't know how I'm supposed to feel about this book, because it filled me with emotions that just didn't involve me crying. This was the type of book that really made me appreciate all the things I have been given in life. In one part, Ed talks about transactions costing pennies, but then Jess and Tanzie starts calculating what the cents add up to over the course of a year. I know I normally don't even bat my eye at a $15 purchase for lunch, whereas for them $15 would be a huge deal.
Another really great thing about this book was the portrayal of Tanzie. In so many books child geniuses are either too smart all the time, or have two personalities-the smart one and then the really really stupid one created so they have some kind of air of realness (which actually makes it more fake). Tans, apart from her amazing prowess at maths, is just a normal 10-year-old. She speaks like a 10-year-old ALL. THE. TIME. (except for when she talks about the Law of Large Numbers and stuff like that) She misses her father. She cries when she's sad or scared.
At first Nicky seemed like a side character, mostly unimportant to the development of the main plot, but he ended up being one of my favorite characters. After Moyes got away from the stereotypical "goth, mascara-wearing, outcast teenager" thing and gave Nicky real emotions other than anger (It probably really really started when she talked about why Nicky didn't talk much, probably 3/4ths of the way into the book). His growth was probably the best of all, even though none of the characters was static at all.
In general, I'm just amazed at the fact that most of the book was spent in a car/random hotels that basically were the same thing as the car, yet there was so much character development. Jess, Ed, Nicky, and Tanzie all find themselves in some way or another, and somehow Moyes makes this huge, farting dog into this lovable creature. This was one of those books that didn't start slowly and then morph into something great. It started out great and finished with an ending that left you satisfied (and not with red eyes and a tear-stricken face, which, like I said, may or may not be a bad thing).
1) I didn't cry.
2) I didn't cry.
3) I didn't cry.
Bad things:
1) I didn't cry.
2) I didn't cry.
3) I didn't cry.
I honestly don't know how I'm supposed to feel about this book, because it filled me with emotions that just didn't involve me crying. This was the type of book that really made me appreciate all the things I have been given in life. In one part, Ed talks about transactions costing pennies, but then Jess and Tanzie starts calculating what the cents add up to over the course of a year. I know I normally don't even bat my eye at a $15 purchase for lunch, whereas for them $15 would be a huge deal.
Another really great thing about this book was the portrayal of Tanzie. In so many books child geniuses are either too smart all the time, or have two personalities-the smart one and then the really really stupid one created so they have some kind of air of realness (which actually makes it more fake). Tans, apart from her amazing prowess at maths, is just a normal 10-year-old. She speaks like a 10-year-old ALL. THE. TIME. (except for when she talks about the Law of Large Numbers and stuff like that) She misses her father. She cries when she's sad or scared.
At first Nicky seemed like a side character, mostly unimportant to the development of the main plot, but he ended up being one of my favorite characters. After Moyes got away from the stereotypical "goth, mascara-wearing, outcast teenager" thing and gave Nicky real emotions other than anger (It probably really really started when she talked about why Nicky didn't talk much, probably 3/4ths of the way into the book). His growth was probably the best of all, even though none of the characters was static at all.
In general, I'm just amazed at the fact that most of the book was spent in a car/random hotels that basically were the same thing as the car, yet there was so much character development. Jess, Ed, Nicky, and Tanzie all find themselves in some way or another, and somehow Moyes makes this huge, farting dog into this lovable creature. This was one of those books that didn't start slowly and then morph into something great. It started out great and finished with an ending that left you satisfied (and not with red eyes and a tear-stricken face, which, like I said, may or may not be a bad thing).