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I don't get it.
I did like it better than the film, which isn't saying much because I did not like the film at all. Only got the GN out of the mistaken belief that since the film was getting such rave reviews and was based on a GN that got great reviews that I'd just missed something in the film. I don't think I did.
There was nothing ‘special' about this story to me; nothing about it that stood out. Yes it's a first love story, but nothing about the characters made me care about them and major plot points happened really quickly without any importance really being given to them. The drug addiction came out of nowhere for me - I'll admit it's possible that I missed signs of it because I struggle with reading too quickly, particularly GNs, but I actually spent the whole book thinking she'd committed suicide.
I struggled with the font of Clementine's ‘handwriting', having to pause to figure out what the word was. It amuses me that in French ‘boohoo' is apparently ‘bou hou' :)
sacrilegious I know, but I felt the second half of the book was weak. The beginning started off so strong setting up an epic struggle which then dissolved into a walk in the park resolution. Even the ‘significant' loss suffered didn't feel significant as no time was spent on it. It felt like it was thrown in to show Paul suffering in his victory but he didn't.
Invaluable. I've always been terrified of this subject, and it took me two attempts to go through this book, but it is so well told and knowing it has a “happy ending” that it was well worth paying through my personal discomfort to gain the information and most importantly lived experience this book offers
I tried to push through this, but it just didn't grab me at all. Apparently its normal to feel like you don't have a clue what's going on but it was too much of that feeling for me.
I do struggle with classic sci-fi though; anyone reading this review should take that into account