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The Start of Me and You-Emery Lord

Good Day or Evening Bibliophiles. . .depending on where you are in the world.

Today i'll be talking about The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord, I've had this book for a month! I started reading it about a month ago, then found the Jodi Picoult-Small Great Things and kind of had to put it down. . .I explained in a previous post that this is a bad habit I have. 

Any way lets start with the blurb shall we. . .

CAN YOU PLAN HAPPINESS?

It's been a year since Paige's first boyfriend died in a swimming accident and its time she rejoined the real world.


So she makes a plan
1. Date a boy (long-standing crush Ryan Chase seems like the perfect choice)
2.Attend parties (with best friends by your side: doable
3.Join a club (simple enough, right
4.Travel (Might as well dream big
5.Swim  

But when she meets Ryan's sweet (but so nerdy) cousin, Max, he opens up her world and Paige's plans start to change. . .

Is it too late or a second chance at life  

So when I finally finished my previous read, I got through this book quite quickly. It has quite a few quotes that I absolutely loved and the theme of new beginnings and pushing through tough times, recreating who you are after a tragedy made it quite the read. The characters include Paige, Ryan Chase, Max, Tessa, Kayleigh, Morgan and Paige's sweet granny. There is little mention of Paige's boyfriend that died in a drowning accident. I loved that this book wasn't too long after the Jodi Picoult novel and it has also served as a bit of a pick me up lately since of the contents of my current read "Semicolon- Your Story Isn't Over" is a little heavy.
What did we love about this book?
I would definitely have to say the theme of recreating or finding oneself after a tragedy. I haven't read many young adult novels that do this really well. Oh and when Max call's Paige "Janie", Pride and Prejudice reference. . .read this book to find out more.

What did we not we love?
Ummmmm I guess when Paige finally realizes who she's really in love with (not giving any names, I WILL NOT SPOIL THIS FOR YOU). I honestly feel like I waited and waited for the moment to be magical. . .hey at least 5 pages or a whole chapter but to my disappointment it felt like one page worth. What follows are a couple of emails between the two love birds that I skimmed through, its not what I expected really. I guess I could also say the ages of these characters made it a little hard to connect, Paige is 16. . .Its weird to think of a 16 year old knowing anything about being in love. I think I enjoyed the book more for the two themes I mentioned earlier.

Quotes
“Darkness might keep flooding in, but I finally had just enough light to find the way back to myself.”

“In friendship we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.”   
 
“Like you had been drowning, and the book was air.” 

“In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what’s going to happen. But knowing what happens isn’t the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part.” 


 
Songlist?  
Natasha Bedingfield-Unwritten
Macklemore ft Skylar Grey-Glorius
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