Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon If Maddy leaves her home, the world could very well kill her. She's allergic to so many things and never knows what could trigger her. So she lives inside with her mother, never leaving, never seeing the world - that is, until Olly becomes the boy next door when his family moves in. He soon becomes her guilty secret. Will being with him be the very thing that destroys her?
This is your typical YA novel with a plot that certainly matches the genre, and I always enjoy it when authors use different formats and diagrams to add to the story they are telling us. It's a decent debut, but I know Yoon's work improved after this (I adored The Sun Is Also a Star). Unfortunately, this book is ableist AF. I won't say more because that'll take me into spoiler territory... anyway, perhaps skip to the other books Yoon has written.
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The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary Tiffy needs to get out of her rubbish ex's place but she's got a shoestring budget. Enter Leon, who needs the extra income of a flatmate. But there's only one bed! Not that Tiffy and Leon will ever share it, or be home at the same time, or ever actually meet. They start leaving notes for each other... then their lives begin to slowly mesh, until it's inevitable that they'll finally come face to face.
I've had to read O'Leary's books out of publication order, as I'm at the mercy of the local library's availability. The last two I read were sooo not for me and I was anxious about reading her first one. Well, I'm confused because this feels like an entirely different author. The Flatshare is awesome! The concept is wonderful, the characters are incredibly loveable (even the side randoms), and I'd happily share my bed with this book forever (alas, I must return it to the library). Tiffy's trauma is handled sensitively and so well... makes me wonder why similar themes fell so flat for me in The No-Show and The Road Trip. I suspect it's the execution. Whew. That was a relief. Now I should go pick up The Switch, which is currently waiting for me on the hold shelf. Wish me luck with that one! xD Content warning: gaslighting, emotional abuse, stalking |
AboutAlyce Caswell, when she isn't drinking her way through a giant pot of tea, can be found dabbling in multiple genres and writing forms. She has self-published several titles in her space opera family saga, which is divided into two series: The Galactic Pantheon and The Pantheon War. Her most recent book is The Shadow of the Gods. 
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