A Place Without You
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TW: suicide, chronical illness, depression I am going to describe Henna with quotes because I don‘t want to be meaner than I have to be. I am not exaggerating when I say that I HATE her. Spending nearly 400 pages in her head … no I‘m not going there. “I don‘t want a yacht. They don‘t keep well in the Rockies. I know plenty of rich people. I can always borrow one in a pinch.“ “After staying faithfully high most of the summer, henna tattooing every inch of my body with Bodhi‘s name in fancy script, a ketchup bottle, Bodhi + Henna, even an unopened condom packet right below my navel – that is definitely a low point, even for me – I stop texting him. If he really misses me, he‘ll initiate contact.“ “Is that what you want? To get expelled?“ On a laugh, I shrug. “I don‘t care. But they won‘t expel me. It‘s my last year. I‘m the bane of Gail‘s existence. She wants me out of here, but for good, not so I fail and have to come back yet another year. God…“ I rest my head on the back of the chair, staring at the ceiling. I feel certain Someone painted it as well. “I‘m so sick of this place. There‘s a whole big world out there and I‘m stuck here.“ “I‘m surprised Bodhi hasn‘t hired an in–home nurse to help take care of him. At least he‘d feel like it was a professional helping him instead of the neighbor slash wife of his business manager." In a different context these quotes wouldn‘t feel so sour. If she would end recognizing she is privileged, and others are not and she can‘t measure everyone else by how she has grown up. Or if she ended up not getting everything she wants by just doing what she wants to do, her parents clearing the way for her. Or whatever… if it just wasn‘t the way it was in this book😭 (Please keep in mind this is how I perceived her. If your view of her is differently I‘m happy for you.) Is there anything positive I can say about Henna? Oh yes, there is: at least she makes a point of using condoms, so there’s no surprise pregnancy. And she and Bodhi adopt a child – that‘s also a brownie point. Everything else will be scrubbed off my mind, thank you very much. Let’s talk about Bodhi. I think I could have liked him if he wasn‘t as stupidly in love with a character I loathed. The way he dives headfirst into horrible decisions due to Henna suffocated my sympathy for him. I went into this expecting a forbidden romance… the “forbidden“ aspect of their relationship was relevant for like 2 chapters? It simply does not really matter. Instead the story revolves mainly around Bodhis dad and spoiled Henna. And his dad‘s background story is pretty sad, but I wasn‘t wholly comfortable with the way the book deals with topics like depression, cancer and suicidal tendencies. 2/5⭐️
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TW: suicide, chronical illness, depression I am going to describe Henna with quotes because I don‘t want to be meaner than I have to be. I am not exaggerating when I say that I HATE her. Spending nearly 400 pages in her head … no I‘m not going there. “I don‘t want a yacht. They don‘t keep well in the Rockies. I know plenty of rich people. I can always borrow one in a pinch.“ “After staying faithfully high most of the summer, henna tattooing every inch of my body with Bodhi‘s name in fancy script, a ketchup bottle, Bodhi + Henna, even an unopened condom packet right below my navel – that is definitely a low point, even for me – I stop texting him. If he really misses me, he‘ll initiate contact.“ “Is that what you want? To get expelled?“ On a laugh, I shrug. “I don‘t care. But they won‘t expel me. It‘s my last year. I‘m the bane of Gail‘s existence. She wants me out of here, but for good, not so I fail and have to come back yet another year. God…“ I rest my head on the back of the chair, staring at the ceiling. I feel certain Someone painted it as well. “I‘m so sick of this place. There‘s a whole big world out there and I‘m stuck here.“ “I‘m surprised Bodhi hasn‘t hired an in–home nurse to help take care of him. At least he‘d feel like it was a professional helping him instead of the neighbor slash wife of his business manager." In a different context these quotes wouldn‘t feel so sour. If she would end recognizing she is privileged, and others are not and she can‘t measure everyone else by how she has grown up. Or if she ended up not getting everything she wants by just doing what she wants to do, her parents clearing the way for her. Or whatever… if it just wasn‘t the way it was in this book😭 (Please keep in mind this is how I perceived her. If your view of her is differently I‘m happy for you.) Is there anything positive I can say about Henna? Oh yes, there is: at least she makes a point of using condoms, so there’s no surprise pregnancy. And she and Bodhi adopt a child – that‘s also a brownie point. Everything else will be scrubbed off my mind, thank you very much. Let’s talk about Bodhi. I think I could have liked him if he wasn‘t as stupidly in love with a character I loathed. The way he dives headfirst into horrible decisions due to Henna suffocated my sympathy for him. I went into this expecting a forbidden romance… the “forbidden“ aspect of their relationship was relevant for like 2 chapters? It simply does not really matter. Instead the story revolves mainly around Bodhis dad and spoiled Henna. And his dad‘s background story is pretty sad, but I wasn‘t wholly comfortable with the way the book deals with topics like depression, cancer and suicidal tendencies. 2/5⭐️