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Entre Toi Et Moi (2013)

by Stephen Emond(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Albin Michel Wiz

review 1: I really enjoyed this book. I loved that it was filled with so much art work, it was nice reading a book with pictures for a change, since I haven't read a picture since I was really little. Seeing as this book takes place around Christmas/New Year's time, it was a perfect time to read it now. This book was such a quick read and I loved everything, the characters (except for Evan's dad, didn't really like him), the story, Evan and Lucy's relationship, everything was just great. Speaking of Evan and Lucy's relationship, I loved how realistic it was. Neither of them were perfect and their relationship was full of flaws but it was a realistic portrayal. I think more authors can learn a lot about realistic portrayals of relationships from this book. I really liked the characte... morer development in this book as well and watching Evan and Lucy grow and finding their own paths. The only thing I wish was different is I wished I knew more about what happened to Lucy in the end when she returned home. I would have like to see what happened with her and her family. Otherwise this was a really great book and I'm really start to warm up to contemporary books, this is only my second contemporary so far but it's good second.
review 2: I have complicated feelings about this book. There were parts of it that were great, and I love the concept behind it - integrating a graphic/comic component. Some well-drawn parental-type figures including the male protagonist's grandmother (Gram), who is lively and wonderful, and of course his two gay bffs are fun and funny. But there's something weirdly unbalanced about the book as a whole - Evan, as the overachiever sacrificing his desires to his fathers' wishes, is neither that interesting or that deep, while his love interest, tortured Lucy, is both Manic Pixie Dream Girl and bipolar goth all wrapped into one, so weighed down she collapses under a pile of her own (unoriginal) angst. I kept wanting her to get therapy, or at least some sort of solid support system that isn't her childhood best friend who she sees for 2 weeks a year, but Emond wraps it all up with a nice little bow at the end while somehow skipping the hard work part that depicts how they get there. It might have been better as an actual graphic novel, and it feels a little like it got picked up because of its cool concept instead of the quality of the story. Disappointing. less

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