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A review by sc104906
Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon
2.0
I received this eARC through Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
Peter and Sophie are next-door-neighbors and best friends. There has never been a time when they weren’t friends and there has never been a time when Peter wasn’t sick. He suffers from kidney disease, which makes it difficult for him to take part in life to the fullest. He got tired easily and was in and out of the hospital. None of that mattered to Sophie. When they had to change plans so that Peter could still hang, Sophie was more than willing to do whatever for her best friend. She loved him and as they grew, she found that she loved him more than just a friend and wanted to have a deeper level of intimacy. Sophie and her kidney are a perfect match for Peter and the summer before senior year, she donates one of her kidneys to him. Peter is now healthier than he has ever been. He is going back to school and doing things that a typical teen guy would be doing. However, he feels like he owes Sophie and doesn’t know if he wants her romantically. He is trying to figure out who he is, now that he isn’t sick. Peter begins developing romantic feelings for his classmate and new bandmate, Chase. Is the relationship between Peter and Sophie as solid as they had always thought?
I was in the mood for this type of dramatic realistic fiction, but found that I never truly warmed up to the story. I liked Sophie and felt bad for her throughout the novel. Peter was seriously off-putting, it seemed like he was always climbing onto a soapbox to give the reader a Wikipedia definition about some other part of his identity. I liked Chase and found Sophie’s sister’s plot line interesting and different from the typical teen mom depiction.
Peter and Sophie are next-door-neighbors and best friends. There has never been a time when they weren’t friends and there has never been a time when Peter wasn’t sick. He suffers from kidney disease, which makes it difficult for him to take part in life to the fullest. He got tired easily and was in and out of the hospital. None of that mattered to Sophie. When they had to change plans so that Peter could still hang, Sophie was more than willing to do whatever for her best friend. She loved him and as they grew, she found that she loved him more than just a friend and wanted to have a deeper level of intimacy. Sophie and her kidney are a perfect match for Peter and the summer before senior year, she donates one of her kidneys to him. Peter is now healthier than he has ever been. He is going back to school and doing things that a typical teen guy would be doing. However, he feels like he owes Sophie and doesn’t know if he wants her romantically. He is trying to figure out who he is, now that he isn’t sick. Peter begins developing romantic feelings for his classmate and new bandmate, Chase. Is the relationship between Peter and Sophie as solid as they had always thought?
I was in the mood for this type of dramatic realistic fiction, but found that I never truly warmed up to the story. I liked Sophie and felt bad for her throughout the novel. Peter was seriously off-putting, it seemed like he was always climbing onto a soapbox to give the reader a Wikipedia definition about some other part of his identity. I liked Chase and found Sophie’s sister’s plot line interesting and different from the typical teen mom depiction.