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All This Time
by Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry
This is my first long review, so please bear with me here:
Spoilers ahead!
I don’t think a story has hit me so hard in the feels since Fault in our Stars. This was an emotional rollercoaster the entire way. It was very well written and had me pulled in right from the start. I finished it in one day (thank god for slow work days and 2x audio speed!)
I felt the sadness when Kyle finds out that Kim had died, the despair when he was trying to move on from her and struggling to continue to live, and the confusion when he met Marley and not understanding the feelings he was having for her. The relief when he finally decided to move on, the happiness he was starting to feel now that his life was back on track, and the love for Marley.
But of course, the happiness was too good to be true. I feel like I should have seen that twist coming! Everything was falling into place, time was going by too fast (Halloween, Christmas, New Years, summer all in a matter for pages), he landed a dream job without an interview (does that ever actually happen?), he was finally happy and at peace with everything. Typical set up for everything to fall apart.
Finding out it was a coma made me feel like I was back in the movie theatre, watching Twilight: Breaking Dawn part 2 for the first time when the entire theatre was shocked to find out that the whole battle and all the deaths they were mourning was just a vision from Alice (of course, if you read the book, you know this didn’t happen and was a movie ploy).
My heart felt like it was ripped out of my chest. All that happiness, the success, all the life changing realizations: all fake. I was just as shocked as he was, trying to figure it all out. All I wanted to do was help him solve the question: who was Marley and how did he have this dream that felt so real? Was it his brain messing with him?
I was so happy for him when he figured out that he had seen her face before (when being treated after the accident - hinted at early in the book, again something else I feel I should have caught). And the realization that she had been writing their story and reading it to him when she thought he couldn’t hear, the only person she had spoken to in years, just hit me.
And lastly, the moment when we thought it was all for nothing. I’ll be honest, I was listening to it as an audiobook while I was driving home from work - probably not the best idea, considering how this story started, but I made it home safe! My hands were gripping the steering wheel, white knuckled. I was shaking my head, “No, this couldn’t happen, not after everything he went through trying to find her again and finally getting her to talk to him!”. I’m pretty sure if I wasn’t driving, I would have been a sobbing mess. As it was, I was tearing up a bit.
In the end, I am very satisfied with how this story was written. I was drawn in to the characters and the story. The humour, whit and the typical teenage male attitude throughout had me laughing out loud! I was expecting a 3-4 star read, but was pleasantly with how much I actually enjoyed it!
Spoilers ahead!
I don’t think a story has hit me so hard in the feels since Fault in our Stars. This was an emotional rollercoaster the entire way. It was very well written and had me pulled in right from the start. I finished it in one day (thank god for slow work days and 2x audio speed!)
I felt the sadness when Kyle finds out that Kim had died, the despair when he was trying to move on from her and struggling to continue to live, and the confusion when he met Marley and not understanding the feelings he was having for her. The relief when he finally decided to move on, the happiness he was starting to feel now that his life was back on track, and the love for Marley.
But of course, the happiness was too good to be true. I feel like I should have seen that twist coming! Everything was falling into place, time was going by too fast (Halloween, Christmas, New Years, summer all in a matter for pages), he landed a dream job without an interview (does that ever actually happen?), he was finally happy and at peace with everything. Typical set up for everything to fall apart.
Finding out it was a coma made me feel like I was back in the movie theatre, watching Twilight: Breaking Dawn part 2 for the first time when the entire theatre was shocked to find out that the whole battle and all the deaths they were mourning was just a vision from Alice (of course, if you read the book, you know this didn’t happen and was a movie ploy).
My heart felt like it was ripped out of my chest. All that happiness, the success, all the life changing realizations: all fake. I was just as shocked as he was, trying to figure it all out. All I wanted to do was help him solve the question: who was Marley and how did he have this dream that felt so real? Was it his brain messing with him?
I was so happy for him when he figured out that he had seen her face before (when being treated after the accident - hinted at early in the book, again something else I feel I should have caught). And the realization that she had been writing their story and reading it to him when she thought he couldn’t hear, the only person she had spoken to in years, just hit me.
And lastly, the moment when we thought it was all for nothing. I’ll be honest, I was listening to it as an audiobook while I was driving home from work - probably not the best idea, considering how this story started, but I made it home safe! My hands were gripping the steering wheel, white knuckled. I was shaking my head, “No, this couldn’t happen, not after everything he went through trying to find her again and finally getting her to talk to him!”. I’m pretty sure if I wasn’t driving, I would have been a sobbing mess. As it was, I was tearing up a bit.
In the end, I am very satisfied with how this story was written. I was drawn in to the characters and the story. The humour, whit and the typical teenage male attitude throughout had me laughing out loud! I was expecting a 3-4 star read, but was pleasantly with how much I actually enjoyed it!