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Adam Silvera
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OCD-afflicted Griffin has just lost his first love, Theo, in a drowning accident. In an attempt to hold on to every piece of the past, he forges a friendship with Theo's last boyfriend, Jackson. When Jackson begins to exhibit signs of guilt, Griffin suspects he's hiding something and will stop at nothing to get to the truth about Theo's death. But as the grieving pair grows closer, listeners will question Griffin's own version of the truth - in terms of both what he's willing to hide and what true love means.
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Sad
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The thing is, he REALLY does it well. I can't help but feel that he draws a lot from personal experience in terms of how he breathes life into his characters because the emotional weight of what they go through is quite palpable. It's not different with this book that has death and loss so central so the story. But they're not just one-dimensionally sad - anyone who has had to deal with the grief from the death of a loved one will feel some degree of resonance with our protagonist after Theo's death.
The way the story unfolds takes a fair amount of time as we're stuck with a first-person POV and naturally a potentially unreliable narrator in the form of our protagonist. Grief is difficult and we're more than capable of lying even to ourselves within the safety of our own heads, so being privy to his direct thoughts is no guarantee of the truth. And that's sort of the brilliance of this story.
Great book. Great choice for audiobook narration. Not Silvera's best, but you see how things evolve based on where he started from here.
Real grief
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Heart tugging
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Not bad, not my favorite
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Adam Strikes Again
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Feeling All Of The Feels
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FUCK...
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BRILLIANT!
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This is not the type of book that I normally enjoy
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