okay so I had high expectations for this one, I love a good dystopian novel and I feel like Matched is a prime example of how it can be used in a cliche, uninteresting way. That does not mean to say that I didn't like it, as a whole I enjoyed what I read and I definitely hope that as the last 100 pages have shown, the series picks up and abandons overused stylistics
I'm not going to lie, my resounding thoughts on autobiographical accounts are that, for the most part, they shouldn't not be written in your twenties! I also find the idea of these being ‘essays' somewhat misleading as I'd definitely see this more as a biographical insight into Lena's life and doesn't really set up to deliver any answers to a question or evidence anything as clearly as perhaps an academic paper would.
What I liked about this book was that Dunham is particularly direct about parts of us that we feel we should keep hidden or ‘too personal to talk about' when perhaps we should be thinking about these topics. At no point do I feel she sets herself up as being the role model of a generation and that thirdly she's not afraid to admit her mistakes and be judged for them.
I debate whether this was a timely publication in the vain of what Dunham had intended but it had it poignancy and charm.
I'd like to point out I read this one in a day! It's a fantastic read and I found it sp relatable that parts of the story really hit home. 4/5
I must admit going into this book I really didn't know what to expect, this story has been told many times in many different guises. Some cleverer than others. You know a book gets you when you're driven to read it and you cannot put it down! I laughed, I cried and I hung on every word of Simon and Blue's emails. In a lot of ways this is a romance between two closeted homosexuals that happens to work out. it's nothing new and I'm largely over coming of age retellings about a guy who feels that coming out will change everything and using this as a right of passage. I really got into Simon's head reading this though and the way the book's written really flows and resonates. it's a beautiful, if cliched, high-school romance that deserves telling and it's told well.
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