Whisper To Me- Nick Lake

Whisper To Me by Nick Lake
Published By: Bloomsbury
Publication Date : May 3, 2016
Genres :Thriller , Young Adult , Romance
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Source :Publisher (ARC)

Synopsis-

A remarkable story of strange beauty and self-discovery from Printz Award winner Nick Lake

"Here are some things i need to say to you :
1.I hear voices (well, just one voice really)
2. I miss you
3.I wish I could take back what i did to you
4.Forgive me
I should have left Oakwood the day I made that terrible discovery on the beach . The day the voice in my head first said those awful things to me . Before everything spun out of control.
But then I wouldn't have met you ..."

Cassie is writing a letter to the boy whose heart she broke. She’s trying to explain why. Why she pushed him away. Why her father got so angry when he saw them together. Why she disappears some nights. Why she won’t let herself remember what happened that long-ago night on the boardwalk. Why she fell apart so completely.

Desperate for his forgiveness, she’s telling the whole story of the summer she nearly lost herself. She’s hoping he’ll understand as well as she now does how love—love for your family, love for that person who makes your heart beat faster, and love for yourself—can save you after all.

My views -
Nick lake in his novel presents to us the story of Cassie . A girl who is suffering from traumatic Schizophernia . Although a love letter , the love theme doesn't overshadow the important theme Nick is dealing herewith , mental illness. I personally loved how he did it , how respectful he was throughout . And let me tell you , this isn't just a love letter , there is so much more , there's family , there's friendship , there's death , inner demons, murder mystery and most importantly ,healing .

"I was shining. Light was blazing from my every pore .My eyes were closed and the strip lights were turning the inside of my eyelids red,everything red. That's your colour you know, the one i see and feel when i think of you .Emotions are always associated with colours,aren't they? Green with envy.Well, when you are in my head you are always there with red : sunlight, warmth ,heat .
People are green with envy .Yellow with cowardice .I am red with you ."

Written in a conversational tone Cassie's voice just grips you in you know .. you keep reading because you want the answers for yourself and you keep doing that until you realise that you've actually finished reading and are in a puddle of tears .Perfect , isn't it?

"So i lost myself for a long time , and i did some terrible things to you and told you some terrible lies . But this is me now ,okay? This is my real voice , my one true voice ,which i am sending to you throught the ether , over the wires and the wireless, so that you can hear it"

What i loved most about Nick's writing was how vividly i could picture every episode as i read and his use of anecdotes are absoulutely stunning and appropriate , if you're a fan of anecdotes as much as i am , you're sure to enjoy it .
All in all , I recommend this to everyone looking for a coming age story of brilliant writing, everything stated above packed in one and happy endings , almost !

I am rating this book a 5 ☆'s because i love it so much !

All the Bright Places -Jennifer Niven Book review

  All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven 

Pages : 400

Genre : Young Adult

Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd, 2015.

SOURCE : Purchased , Flipkart.

   In her first debut for young adult readers Niven gives us a story of two broken teenagers,Violet Markey and Theodore Finch.It is to quote the book directly ,"The story of a girl who learns to live from a boy who wants to die".

SYNOPSIS :

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.
Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state,both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself and it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink. How far will Violet go to save the boy she has come to love?

MY VIEWS  :

All the bright places is my first read by the author Jennifer Niven . I picked up this book with a lot of expectations and it did meet them to some extent but not wholly. Personally,i found a lot of resemblance in its content with some of the y/a novels i had already read before, not particularly naming them but i'm pretty sure there are a lot of readers who think the same way i do . The plot too ,did run slow at times and i did think it would've been a much fantastic read if the other characters were developed as much as the mains .
    Leaving the faults aside, i absolutely adored the way Niven found a way to make the young adult readers aware of such an important topic such as Mental illness and how great a deal it is to tackle it in all the right ways that there are and the love between Theodore and Violet is something that kept me going for more . Theodore ,mainly!And did i tell you? I fell in love with him !
He makes you laugh ,cry and feel the feels all of them at once. And although being predictable as it is from the very beginning it is beautifully written and very honest. A tale of love , loss , hope and mostly ,a tale of the power love holds and its beauty !

               

I recommend this to anyone looking for something that'll make you cry and something you still want to read after  having gone through my review .
Big love ♡

I'm rating this book a :

 4.5/5 ☆'s 

(Definately going to my "Favourite" list)