How I Live Now
Ratings25
Average rating3
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Ratings25
Average rating3
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
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Slow starting, or it'd probably be four stars. Love the relationship between Daisy and Piper.
“Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.”
― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now
I couldn't finish this book. I tried, but I just couldn't get past some of the relationships that seem inappropriate. I didn't appriciate the way it referred to Jesus in some durgoatory terms, and after that I was done with this book. I imagine the story could be good if only a few things didn't put me off so much.
A 1001 CBYMRBYGU.
I don't know exactly what I was expecting with this book, but it took me way off the track. I suppose I thought this would be an Angst-y Teen book, and it is that, filled with prerequisite (though not, in the book's defense, of an in-your-face sort) Eating Disorders and Mean Step-Parent Difficulties and Young Troubled Love. But somewhere along the way, Rosoff threw in a Small Nuclear War.
I liked and I didn't like this book. I liked our main character's perspective on the world. I liked her relationships with her extended family. I was not crazy about the Personal Problems and, even less, the Societal Problems; these seemed like they were tossed into the salad unnecessarily.
