You Know Me Well

You Know Me Well

Hardcover
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Beschreibung

You Know Me Well is a deeply honest story about navigating the joys and heartaches of first love, one truth at a time.

Who knows you well? Your best friend? Your boyfriend or girlfriend? A stranger you meet on a crazy night? No one, really?

Mark and Kate have sat next to each other for an entire year, but have never spoken. For whatever reason, their paths outside of class have never crossed.

That is until Kate spots Mark miles away from home, out in the city for a wild, unexpected night. Kate is lost, having just run away from a chance to finally meet the girl she has been in love with from afar. Mark, meanwhile, is in love with his best friend Ryan, who may or may not feel the same way.

When Kate and Mark meet up, little do they know how important they will become to each other -- and how, in a very short time, they will know each other better than any of the people who are supposed to know them more.

Told in alternating points of view by Nina LaCour, the award-winning author of Hold Still and The Disenchantments, and David Levithan, the bestselling author of Every Day and co-author of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (with Rachel Cohn) and Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with John Green).
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Format
Hardcover
Seitenzahl
256
Preis
9.39 €

Beiträge

6
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3

I feel like a cynical twenty-something who has lost touch with her teenage self saying this, but my biggest beef with this book is that the characters just didn’t feel like high schoolers to me at ALL. Maybe I’m spoiled because we have so many great examples of accurate high school representation in the media these days (Sex Education, literally everything Alice Oseman has ever created), that I forget what it’s usually like. And when I first read this book at fifteen (in London, btw) the book definitely resonated with me. So it’s probably just me being bitter and anxious because I’m no longer a whimsical teenage girl. Apart from this I have to say, that some parts felt really fabricated and cringey to me and the novel is very much a product of its time, so I can’t really complain about the cheuginess of it all, yet it was a little irritating to me.

a happy and light read! i didn't mind that it was a little unrealistic though i would have liked to read more about lehna and kate's friendship and not so much relationship drama.

3

Starting out, I was really into this book. I loved the way it began and thought I was in for a whole night of mischief and that would be the whole book but oh boy was I wrong. This novel starts out with this big night, but then it takes place over I think the next couple weeks? It's like the last week or couple weeks of school I can't remember.  What I really loved about this story was the love story between Kate and Violet. It was beautiful and real and made me come back to this audio book over and over. I could relate to Kate a lot, cause still remember how lost and anxious I felt when school got to en end and it came to choosing university and basically the life you wanna lead. I also related to her fear of meeting Violet after imagining her for so long. It's hard to meet someone real, when you had this idea of the relationship in your head for so long. And basically there are way too little gay female stories in novels so this was refreshing especially in its happiness.  The Mark part was really nice and intriguing in the beginning, but after like the first half, I just started to despise Ryan so much and that threw me of a lot. He did loads of things, a good friend wouldn't and never once apologised for it and that just made me so mad. But anyway, I would recommend checking this story out if you want some good and positive wlw content. Everything is very well written and there is loads of representation in this story. Definitely one of the most diverse reads I ever encountered. Sadly it fell flat in other parts. 

3

2.5 stars. Nothing special, just okay.

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