- My disease is as rare as it is famous, Basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.
But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black-black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.
Maybe we can't predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It's almost certainly going to be a disaster.
The protagonist is Madeline "Maddy" Whittier a teenager who has lived quietly and protected in her house for seventeen years and has never left it, because she's completely allergic to everything, in fact, her house is fully equipped to keep away viruses and bacteria, a kind of impenetrable bubble. The only people she shares are her mother, her nanny Carla and her daughter, who every time they go home must go through a kind of "cleaning" process. Her life is reducing to studying online, watching movies, reading books and writing her reviews, until the day she meets Oliver "Olly" Bright, a ne neighbour who will fall madly in love, love at first sighgt.
I must say that this time I didn't connect with the characters (which very rarely happens to me), I think it was basically because everything was very fast, too fast for my liking... What I do have to accepts is that I really liked the details of the chats and the book iluestrations that somehow made the story a little more fun and dynamic, so this is a point for Nicola.
"Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you."
Basically 90% of the story I spent saying "No, wait. People are not supposed to do that. Nobody in her conditions would make those decision."; nevertheless approaching the end of the story you discover the secret that Maddy's mother has kept for 18 years. I find Pauline unacceptable because just someone with a mental illness would reach that level only to apparently protect and take care of her daughter, but I must accept that the plot twist Nicola knew how to handle it perfectly, then another point for that.
Another aspect that I liked, was that in the end you can understand why Maddy's mother, Pauline; she acted in the way she did and what were the reasons that led her to want to protect her daughter in that way, but we all know that lies don't lead to anything good and in words more or fewer words, Maddy discovers that all her life has been a big lie...
"Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love."
I hate to rate this book with two stars because I really had high expectations with the story, but... In general, it has been a simple story, dynamic, very agile to read that can be finished in a couple of days.
Have you already read this book, if no, Would you like read it? What do you think? I'll wait for your comments below.
- 7/02/2018 08:34:00 p.m.
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