Thank you to Bookish First and Viking Books for an ARE of this book.
I am a Gayle Forman fan and have autographed copies of "If I Stay" and "Where She Went", so I had high expectations of this book. Passages like this one: "They only just met. They have nearly nothing in common, but the invisible chord is now a tight triangle, connecting each of their hearts, each of their destinies", for example, are the Gayle Forman I was anticipating.
Other parts of the whole seem forced like boxes were being checked and the plot is so rushed. It is ambitious to fully cover the twelve hours the three young people spend with each other while fully exploring their back stories and showing resolution. It just didn't work for me in these 250+ pages.
I am a Gayle Forman fan and have autographed copies of "If I Stay" and "Where She Went", so I had high expectations of this book. Passages like this one: "They only just met. They have nearly nothing in common, but the invisible chord is now a tight triangle, connecting each of their hearts, each of their destinies", for example, are the Gayle Forman I was anticipating.
Other parts of the whole seem forced like boxes were being checked and the plot is so rushed. It is ambitious to fully cover the twelve hours the three young people spend with each other while fully exploring their back stories and showing resolution. It just didn't work for me in these 250+ pages.