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Solomon has a way of writing beautifully, sad books. I adored this one!
I so approve of a YA story that deals with "life after love". Sophie and Peter loved each other, but never at the same time!!! Sophie becomes so wrapped up in Peter that she gives him one of her kidneys so that he can live a more normal life. Peter is grateful, but his love for Sophie has changed. Peter realizes that he has feelings for Chase, a member of his band. Sophie feels betrayed by Peter. Too late she realizes that she was usually the giver and he the taker in their friendship. In many r...
2.5 stars. It did what it supposed to do well. Showing a friendship that didn't work whatsoever and the friends trying to make it work. However it wasn't my thing and I didn't enjoy the characters enough to get invested. Was about to DNF it a few times
Listen, this book perfectly captured unrequited love for me. How it can be all encompassing, and also incredibly toxic. Wow, just wow. This book hit me hard! *also Peter is bi. Sophie is dyslexic.
1/15/19: Welcome to the world, OUR YEAR OF MAYBE!! 6/7/18: And we have a cover! Some facts about OUR YEAR OF MAYBE:- It's dual POV.- Sophie is Jewish.- Peter is half Jewish and grappling with what that means when he feels more connected to Judaism than to anything else.- Peter identifies as bisexual on-page from the beginning.- This isn't a spoiler, but given there's a bit of a love triangle, I feel it's important to know: there is NO CHEATING in this book.You might enjoy OUR YEAR OF MAYBE if yo...
You know what, I loved this so much. The childhood friends trope, my heart, my feelings, how realistic everything felt, how three -dimensional these characters were, the sisters relationship, the families, MY FEELINGS.My heart is very happy right now. I loved this. Really, really did.Read my full review of Our Year of Maybe on the blog. My Blog - Drizzle & Hurricane Books - Twitter - Bloglovin'
Rachel Lynn Solomon is slowly becoming one of my all-time favorite authors, I’m waiting on her third book that sounds even more painful and full of angst than this one and You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone to make it official. But so far, she is amazing. This book is about co-dependence in friendship, about unrequited love, the consequences of a transplant between friends (how does Rachel come with those bold ideas and execute them so well?? I will never understand). I liked everything about this boo...
“He has a part of me, and I'm the one with a gaping hole that can't be fixed.” Our Year of Maybe is an incredibly well done book about unrequited love and friendship break-ups, a topic that I think way too little YA books focus on.This book has many layers to it. One of the core events of it is Sophie donating her kidney to her best friend Peter, who she is also in love with. They grew up together and are basically each other's only friends, but we realize throughout the book that the
Luscious, poignant, and another stunner from Rachel Lynn Solomon, author of You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone. It’s safe to say that Our Year of Maybe was just as moving and well-written and finely crafted as Solomon’s debut, and I could not be more excited. Sophie and Peter are such different and dynamic main characters–they change so much in this novel, but not in a rushed way. They’re dynamic and they learn and they find out new things and they grow and it’s really great story-wise seeing this, bu...
”He is the earth, and I am the moon. There was never enough I could do to get him to love me that way I wanted, to see me as more than just a moon. I have never been enough, and he has always been too much”MY HEART IS BROKEN. Oh my god. This book. THIS FUCKING BOOK JUST SHATTERED MY HEART.Here I am still awake at six am in the morning, heartbroken from reading thisTheir story killed me, the ending was just.... brb crying again. I’m just at loss for words for this beautiful, beautiful book. I ca
5 stars.My first five-star read of 2019, yay!!It was so easy to rate Our Year of Maybe five stars. I love this book so much.- Rachel Lynn Solomon's writing is so easy and fun to read. Not once did I feel bored while reading this, the plot & pacing were great!- THE CHARACTERS, oh my gosh. Peter and Sophie's relationship was so complex and intriguing to read about, and my heart hurt so much for Sophie at times. - I LOVE PETER AND CHASE. They're so cute and ahhh I absolutely loved their friendship
This took such an honest and genuine look at friendship and unrequited love. It was messy but it was real. The characters were written so well and the dual perspective added a lot to the story.
Oh man, what I love about both books I’ve read now by the amazing RLS is the way she creates these really complicated, sticky, uncomfortable, emotionally messy scenarios where there really aren’t any bad guys, but still you can end up with a LOT of hurt feelings. And ooohhh I could tell this was going to be so juicy from chapter one. Sophie and Peter are best friends. Peter has been chronically ill his entire life because of a kidney problem. Sophie has a thing for Peter which is sort of brewing...
Any book that makes snot stream down my face deserves all the stars
You can find the full review and all the fancy and/or randomness that accompanies it at It Starts at Midnight "Because I was in love with him— the kind of love that made my throat ache with all the things I couldn’t say." This is probably going to be one of "those" reviews that just amounts to incoherent gushing, and I am not sorry. When I heard there was a new Rachel Lynn Solomon book coming out, I had no doubt I'd like it. I loved You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone , but more than that...
Rachel Lynn Solomon blew me away with her debut book, You’ll Miss Me When I am Gone. So, I can’t tell you how excited I was when I found out that her second novel, Our Year of Maybe was to be released soon. I NEEDED this book! I once thought that Solomon could not get any better than her debut, but I was wrong, this book is everything I ever hoped it could be and so much more. Sophie has been in love with Peter almost her entire life. They are the best of friends. Sophie would do anything for Pe...
This was a really, really lovely exploration of codependent friendship and at what point it becomes toxic and whether there's a point at which it can be saved. I think my heart wanted to see more from the end but not in a "this book did it poorly" way; I just really liked the discussions they were opening and I wanted more. Probably not realistic IRL, but as someone who had a male best friend with whom she was very close in a way that made relationships tricky and okay also maybe she was in unre...
imagine having a wig remaining after finishing this book.....cannot relate!Sweet, heartbreaking, haunting, and beautiful.
***Actual rating: 4/5 Lovin’-So-Hard Stars*** And then I let go of him first, this boy who never belonged to me.Ilet go first. Peter and Sophie have been best friends since childhood; growing up together, Peter’s feeling for Sophie is always nothing more than F.R.I.E.N.D.S. whereas Sophie starts having undeniable crush on him day by day. When Sophie realizes Peter never feels the same as she does, her secret crush morphs into a much more dangerous obsession, which has totally ta
I jumped at the opportunity to read this book based on all the amazing things I had heard about Solomon's debut, You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone, and let me tell you, it was a great decision. This book was a painfully beautiful exploration of a friendship, and how quickly something so seemingly solid can deteriorate.Sophie and Peter shared a friendship, which worked well in a bubble, but post-transplant, a lot of cracks begin to become more prominent, and I know I struggled with being both happy fo...