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molliebruce's Reviews (786)
I'm kind of including a spoiler about the very end of the book so yeah.
Let me start by saying, I read this book in less than 12 hours, staying up until gone 3am as I was SO hooked! I mean the storyline was great, the characters were perfect, it was interesting, emotional, gripping - everything perfect about a book!
There was however one thing about this book that annoyed the hell out of me, even though it was more than likely done for a reason. As a reader, we ended not knowing...
Throughout the book, I became so emotionally attached to Grant and Amanda both as individuals and also as a couple. So for Grant in the end to turn his nose up at what Amanda was, broke my heart just a little bit. They were one of my favourite fictional couples and I personally did not see him or his family reacting like that!
When they finally met up again at the end of the book, they had a conversation in which Grant told Amanda he didn't know if they could ever work, he didn't know what they were together and he wished she had always been a girl. Then in one of the last few lines, Amanda said "Maybe this would be the last ever conversation I had with grant. Maybe not.". I turned the page to see what he responded and the book had finished? What?! Are you kidding me?
All I'm saying is if you're a person like me who likes to actually know what happens in the end then take that into consideration when reading this book.
That's the only reason I simply had to give this book a 4* as I would have initially given it a 5*. I will say, I loved this book a lot and it has really resonated with me.
Let me start by saying, I read this book in less than 12 hours, staying up until gone 3am as I was SO hooked! I mean the storyline was great, the characters were perfect, it was interesting, emotional, gripping - everything perfect about a book!
There was however one thing about this book that annoyed the hell out of me, even though it was more than likely done for a reason. As a reader, we ended not knowing...
Throughout the book, I became so emotionally attached to Grant and Amanda both as individuals and also as a couple. So for Grant in the end to turn his nose up at what Amanda was, broke my heart just a little bit. They were one of my favourite fictional couples and I personally did not see him or his family reacting like that!
When they finally met up again at the end of the book, they had a conversation in which Grant told Amanda he didn't know if they could ever work, he didn't know what they were together and he wished she had always been a girl. Then in one of the last few lines, Amanda said "Maybe this would be the last ever conversation I had with grant. Maybe not.". I turned the page to see what he responded and the book had finished? What?! Are you kidding me?
All I'm saying is if you're a person like me who likes to actually know what happens in the end then take that into consideration when reading this book.
That's the only reason I simply had to give this book a 4* as I would have initially given it a 5*. I will say, I loved this book a lot and it has really resonated with me.
I found this book to be quite slow at times and then interesting at others which was frustrating as I was constantly switching between wanting to read it and being bored. After reading all the reviews from my friends on goodreads, so many of them talked about the ending and how much of a plot twist it was and so I was excited for that as I LOVE unexpected plot twists and I thought the ending might raise my rating however I literally guessed the ending half way through the book?! Overall a little disappointing but I can understand why so many people love this book, just not really my thing I guess?
I love this story but I do loooove the film more than the book
