Fifteen-year-olds Cece and Mack didn't expect to fall in love. She's a sensitive A student; he's a high school dropout. But soon they're spending every moment together, bonding over a rescued dog, telling their secrets, making plans for the future. Everything is perfect. Until. Until. Mack makes a horrible mistake, and in just a few minutes, the future they'd planned becomes impossible. In this stark new reality, both of them must find meaning and hope in the memories of what they had, to survive when the person they love can't stay.
From award-winning writer Paul Griffin, Stay with Me is both heartbreaking and uplifting, filled with characters (both dog and human) that will forever change the way you look at the world.
Stay with Me by Paul GriffinMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
I’m gonna start this review by apologizing, I am sorry I didn’t love this book like I wanted to and I’m sorry I couldn’t even finish it.
That's seriously how I felt, or maybe I still feel bad for faking sick to get out of going to this persons house. My mum comes home and says "their 16 year old daughter would have really loved to meet you, your practically the same age. You would have liked her. But no Sita you were sick" she said quoting the air to emphasise the sick. I mean who's mum does that to them? Okay enough of my guilt...onto the review.
I probably would not have read this if someone hadn’t recommended it to me ( I kind of feel like I have to read the book the person recommends because they took the time to recommend it), saying that they were reading it and it was a good book. I thought “what the heck?” And I read it, or at least I tried to.
In theory this sounds exactly like the type of book that I would love. It is told from both the main characters point of views, it is a young adult romance and both the characters sound believable and realistic. When you actually read the book, you find that is not so much the case.
Book in a sentence: Mack meets Cece, she is a good student with a little bit a lot of emotional baggage, he is a kind hearted boy who dropped out of school and loves taking care of dogs, they work together and (very) soon start seeing each other, about two weeks into the relationship they realize that they are in love, then it happens...
I really can’t say whether I liked the book. I guess I liked the idea of the book and the idea of the characters a lot more than I did the real thing. One thing I did love about the book was the writing. It was the sort of no bull shit writing that I love. It was short sentences that were straight to the point, neither of the characters wasted any time.
Am I glad I read it? I can’t say that I am. The book really wasn’t that great in the end, and I guess I had high expectations, because after finishing the book I was really disappointed. I had just expected more.
Because I didn’t finish the book I can’t say I would recommend it to anyone, but if I had to I would say YA romance lovers who are looking for something different.
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