A review by riseandspine
Out Of Touch by Michael Sarais

challenging emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Out of Touch is a story that feels like a real life love story. It isn’t always rainbows and unicorns, and throughout a lot of the story you just don’t know how these two boys are going to get through it all. But I think this story goes well beyond love story. This is a story about life, about struggles, about the universe taking swings, and most importantly, it is a story about two people (and those around them) working past all of it to come out the other side. 
 
I was roughly the same age as these characters throughout the story, so I really appreciated the nostalgic look back through time that this book gave me. I think I related to both Teddy and Vincent in so many ways because of our age matching, despite me having very little experience with the places and cultures they lived. 
 
I consider a book to be good or great based on how it makes me feel. If the emotions and the experience come through to me, it is a great book. I don’t think that a book has to be the most poetically written, or that it has to have a perfect plot line and be completely realistic, I just think it has to make me feel the feels. The more feels the better. This one delivered. I highly recommend it. 
 
Thank you to Michael Sarais and Pride Book Tours for providing me a copy of this ebook for free. 
 
This book has a lot of difficult and troubling pieces (as does life for most people), so be sure to check out the Content Warnings.
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