A review by ketsueki_randi
A World Without You by Beth Revis

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 
I think one of the things I most enjoyed was how the author really puts you in Bo’s head. Even though there’s no way Bo can control time and go back in time, but there’s this feeling that, maybe, there’s something otherworldly going on. I’m not all that sure how the mental health representation is because Bo doesn’t have an exact diagnosis, but it has felt fairly accurate. It’s hard to talk about the other side characters because of Bo’s diagnosis and because he had to create this alternate situation to cope with being in an alternative school
(and later to deal with Sofia’s suicide).
But as conflicted as I feel about the ending, because I really do love the idea of a sort of Inception-ending. it’s so interesting how there was a correlation from Bo “travelling into the future” with the time skip that occurred during the epilogue. I can understand how people might not enjoy this sort of magical realism twist on the ending, especially when the rest of the story focuses on the harsh reality, it was nice


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