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nakaawang's review
3.0
some parts hit a little bit too close to home for me, it almost felt like a word-for-word representation of a week in my life. loved it sm <3
daja57's review against another edition
3.0
A book narrated in the second person which is an incredibly unusual thing to do.
It is, I suppose, a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age novel. 'Your' story starts at three years old and progresses to twenty-eight. 'Yours' is a very ordinary life in a normal house in a normal town, you go to a normal school. You're a bit of an ugly duckling but you are clever and quick-witted. Unfortunately, perhaps because you are bullied for being 'weird', this doesn't translate to academic success at school. The first part of the novel takes you to the threshold of your school-leaving exams in a series of snapshots taken through the years. The second part of the book recounts some traumatic events at the time of the exams and their consequences. The third part returns to the snapshot format and considers the fall-out.
It was well-written and viscerally rooted in ugly everyday reality. No murders, no superheroes, no death-defying struggles, no grand adventures. Just ordinary life. But there was drama, there was tension, there were challenges to be overcome, there were little triumphs, there were larger disasters, there was even, of a sort, love. This makes it as weird but as honest and as truthful as its protagonist, who says: "You wish your class could read books about something other than war and the children of war; you want to read about normal people trying to do normal things." (Part One: 13 years old - May) The wish has here been granted.
It is, I suppose, a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age novel. 'Your' story starts at three years old and progresses to twenty-eight. 'Yours' is a very ordinary life in a normal house in a normal town, you go to a normal school. You're a bit of an ugly duckling but you are clever and quick-witted. Unfortunately, perhaps because you are bullied for being 'weird', this doesn't translate to academic success at school. The first part of the novel takes you to the threshold of your school-leaving exams in a series of snapshots taken through the years. The second part of the book recounts some traumatic events at the time of the exams and their consequences. The third part returns to the snapshot format and considers the fall-out.
It was well-written and viscerally rooted in ugly everyday reality. No murders, no superheroes, no death-defying struggles, no grand adventures. Just ordinary life. But there was drama, there was tension, there were challenges to be overcome, there were little triumphs, there were larger disasters, there was even, of a sort, love. This makes it as weird but as honest and as truthful as its protagonist, who says: "You wish your class could read books about something other than war and the children of war; you want to read about normal people trying to do normal things." (Part One: 13 years old - May) The wish has here been granted.
maidiohead's review
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
natalieoneill4's review
This book sucked I tried to read it and it was just boring it was like that app BitLife. It was just teeny tiny segments of this persons life and I couldn’t even make the decisions like everything about their life was unenjoyable or boring so it was really hard like bad home life, not smart, not pretty, bad friends, not confident/charismatic…. Yeah touch read, so tough I didn’t finish and I usually rough it out.
maggiesasha's review
5.0
Finally found a copy of this book in London! This is definitely for everyone but I loved it. This book is in second person but it worked surprisingly well.
chrisramos_readingrecord_2024's review
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
briony99's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
mollyss's review
4.0
I liked this and whizzed through it. Some of the writing made me DEEPLT UNCOMFORTABLE but I think that was the intention - some very visceral bits.
emkell7's review
dark
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5