Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
Series: None
Source: ARC from publisher for honest review
Synopsis:
Can you want something—or someone—so badly that it changes your destiny?
Elyse Schmidt never would have thought so, until it happened to her. When Elyse and her not-so-secret crush, Josh Harris, are the sole survivors of a plane crash, tragedy binds them together. It’s as if their love story is meant to be. Everything is perfect, as perfect as it can be when you’ve literally fallen out of the sky and landed hard on the side of a mountain—until suddenly it isn’t.
When the pieces of Elyse’s life stop fitting together, what’s left?
You Are the Everything is a story about the fates we yearn for, the fates we choose, and the fates that are chosen for us.
When the pieces of Elyse’s life stop fitting together, what’s left?
You Are the Everything is a story about the fates we yearn for, the fates we choose, and the fates that are chosen for us.
I've been struggling with this review for days! I want to say so much about it, yet I can't seem to find the right things to say without giving away too much. I feel like the people who have read this already need to get together and chat about it!I will say that from the start to the very end, my emotions took center stage with this book. Each and every page I felt something. Pain during the beginning, sadness and hurt throughout the middle, and angst, mixed with everything else at the end - I couldn't believe the end! I've only read one other book by Karen Rivers and I remember thinking that she had such a unique way of storytelling, and this book almost outshines in the storytelling category. Wow.
Elyse is young, has a best friend who is mad at her, a crush with whom she constantly draws and thinks about, and the need to feel true love at such a young age. She's a lot like us in that aspect. But the things she struggles with throughout You Are The Everything will have you feeling so sad for her. She's clearly going through a lot.
Again, I don't want to say too much about this book because I think it's one you need to read for yourself, and lucky you, if you've stuck around this long and continue sticking around, there's a giveaway at the end of this post!
//Happy Reading!//
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Q & A WITH KAREN RIVERS
Question: Was there anyone in your life in particular you were thinking of when writing the characters Elyse and Josh Harris?
Answer: I was thinking about intense crushes, the kind I believe only exist in high school and earlier, the love you feel for someone who you don’t know very well yet, before you know what relationships are truly like, an idealized infatuation type of love. I had a crush like this on someone who may or may not have looked similar to Josh Harris – I’m still loathe to say who it was! Even typing this makes me blush! – and I definitely tried to channel that yearning, that intensity of feeling, and the warmth and safety of loving someone unattainable, someone who has never even really noticed you.
Q: If the book were to be adapted as a film, who would you cast as Elyse and Josh Harris?
A: I’d also have to freeze time because both of these actors are probably aging out of playing teens, but Lamar Johnson (also a Canadian!) would be perfect as Josh Harris and Elle Fanning as Elyse Schmidt.
Q. Did you always want to become an author?
A: No, absolutely not. I don’t think it occurred to me that this was even a possibility, growing up. I wanted to be a veterinarian, an actor, a doctor, a lawyer, all kinds of other things, but I always gravitated back to writing again. It’s where I belong. It’s where my heart is. There is nothing I would rather do than write, even if it weren’t my job I would do it all the time.
About the author:
Karen Rivers’s books have been nominated for a wide range of literary awards and have been published in multiple languages. When she’s not writing, reading, or visiting schools, she can usually be found hiking in the forest that flourishes behind her tiny old house in Victoria, British Columbia, where she lives with her two kids, two dogs, and two birds. Find her online at karenrivers.com and on Twitter: @karenrivers.
Tour-wide Giveaway
The winner will receive 1 copy of You Are the Everything(HC) by Karen Rivers.
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1 comment:
This was lovvely to read
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