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Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway
5.0
Well, that’s growing up, isn’t it?” my dad said. “You don’t always have to know. And things aren’t always fair. You just have to keep moving forward. A step in one direction.
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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ / 5
(*fair warning: there will be spoilers at the end but they will be heavily marked*)
You know how you hear songs, or see a movie, or in this case read a book at the exact right time? That’s how I felt while I read this book. Before I went into it, I thought it would just be a decent book because it was one of the many books I have waiting to be read, and within a few pages I was hooked.
We follow Emmy and Oliver who live next door to each other, and one day, Oliver is kidnapped by his father and returns 10 years, YEARS, later and we follow what ensues afterwards.
^That was all I knew about it before reading it and seeing what happened. However this book is so much more than all of that, it touched on so many important topics like family dynamics, rough relationships between parents, homosexuality, and dealing with preparation for college.
The writing was soooooo good and compelling and this book was also hilarious. I laughed out loud so many times during this book, and then would switch to crying, and then laughing while crying, and crying from laughing too hard.
This book is a must read; I honestly can’t recommend it enough.
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Okay, so the characters were absolutely amazing. I loved Emmy, Oliver, Drew & Caro and found them all so real to read about. Also, Oliver’s stepsisters Nora and Molly were so hilarious. I remember laughing out loud so many times from reading about them talking to Oliver about their pizza limitations.
Some of my favorite moments from this book were whenever they went to the party at Drew’s house and they all got drunk, and Caro was an emotional drunk talking about The Great Gatsby and then whenever Caro and Emmy went back to Caro’s house and Emmy whispered about how she kissed Oliver and Heather was under all the mess and said something like good for you. It was so funny omg
I loved how it dealt with Drew being gay, and how he felt about how his parents wouldn’t stand up for him because his grandma wouldn’t accept it and she paid for his parents’ mortgage. Then having his brother step up, and being overprotective was also really powerful to read about.
Reading about the family dynamics of Maureen and Oliver, and how they had the argument over dinner about Maureen not liking the person Oliver was now, and how Oliver’s father still raised him. It was such a real climax of the book ending with the twins crying and seeing the emotions just felt so raw. Likewise, whenever Emmy gets accepted into UCSD, and she can’t tell her parents because they’re too overprotective of her and whenever she showed them her wetsuit.
I don’t have enough praise for this book. If you read it, I’d love to talk to you about it and see your opinions. I hope you loved it as much as I did :)
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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ / 5
(*fair warning: there will be spoilers at the end but they will be heavily marked*)
You know how you hear songs, or see a movie, or in this case read a book at the exact right time? That’s how I felt while I read this book. Before I went into it, I thought it would just be a decent book because it was one of the many books I have waiting to be read, and within a few pages I was hooked.
We follow Emmy and Oliver who live next door to each other, and one day, Oliver is kidnapped by his father and returns 10 years, YEARS, later and we follow what ensues afterwards.
^That was all I knew about it before reading it and seeing what happened. However this book is so much more than all of that, it touched on so many important topics like family dynamics, rough relationships between parents, homosexuality, and dealing with preparation for college.
The writing was soooooo good and compelling and this book was also hilarious. I laughed out loud so many times during this book, and then would switch to crying, and then laughing while crying, and crying from laughing too hard.
This book is a must read; I honestly can’t recommend it enough.
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
S
B
E
L
O
W
Okay, so the characters were absolutely amazing. I loved Emmy, Oliver, Drew & Caro and found them all so real to read about. Also, Oliver’s stepsisters Nora and Molly were so hilarious. I remember laughing out loud so many times from reading about them talking to Oliver about their pizza limitations.
Some of my favorite moments from this book were whenever they went to the party at Drew’s house and they all got drunk, and Caro was an emotional drunk talking about The Great Gatsby and then whenever Caro and Emmy went back to Caro’s house and Emmy whispered about how she kissed Oliver and Heather was under all the mess and said something like good for you. It was so funny omg
I loved how it dealt with Drew being gay, and how he felt about how his parents wouldn’t stand up for him because his grandma wouldn’t accept it and she paid for his parents’ mortgage. Then having his brother step up, and being overprotective was also really powerful to read about.
Reading about the family dynamics of Maureen and Oliver, and how they had the argument over dinner about Maureen not liking the person Oliver was now, and how Oliver’s father still raised him. It was such a real climax of the book ending with the twins crying and seeing the emotions just felt so raw. Likewise, whenever Emmy gets accepted into UCSD, and she can’t tell her parents because they’re too overprotective of her and whenever she showed them her wetsuit.
I don’t have enough praise for this book. If you read it, I’d love to talk to you about it and see your opinions. I hope you loved it as much as I did :)