“Anything that kills hope is a sin.”
Book: I Was Here
Author: Gayle
Forman
Genre: Young
Adult, Contemporary, Mystery
Synopsis: Cody and Meg were inseparable.
Two peas in a pod.
Until . . . they weren’t anymore.
When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, who broke Meg’s heart. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets thrown into question.
I Was Here is Gayle Forman at her finest, a taut, emotional, and ultimately redemptive story about redefining the meaning of family and finding a way to move forward even in the face of unspeakable loss.
Two peas in a pod.
Until . . . they weren’t anymore.
When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, who broke Meg’s heart. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets thrown into question.
I Was Here is Gayle Forman at her finest, a taut, emotional, and ultimately redemptive story about redefining the meaning of family and finding a way to move forward even in the face of unspeakable loss.
What I think about it…
The story / plot were okay. I thought this story has something to do
with Meg and Cody’s friendship but I was wrong. It was more about Cody not
forgiving herself, misunderstanding each and every character in this story – be
it another main character or the background characters. Cody comes across as a
whiny teen. She’s also super judgmental like it amazes me how she makes up
stories in her head and point fingers to Ben, Tree, Richard, Alice and herself.
Thank the Lord that this is a standalone book. The only thing that I liked in
this book is the part where Cody and Ben stayed in Richard’s home and attended
the congregation the morning before they leave for Laughlin. It was intimate,
for me. You see, talks about forgiveness have a sore spot in my heart. Anyways,
I also think that Cody and Ben’s love story was so instant and not necessary in
the plot. If it happened in the Epilogue I might understand but during her
investigation about Meg’s suicide? Meh.
My Verdict
I was ecstatic when, finally, I get to put my hands on this book. I’ve wanted
to read another Gayle Forman book after I’ve cried river of tears from If I Stay ten (or more) years ago. Since
then I’ve been tucking Forman’s books in my TBR, waiting for the right time to
come. But this was a disappointment. Now I kept looking back if I was just an
overly emotional teen when I read If I
Stay back then.
MY RATING
★☆☆☆☆
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