This was pretty good - the reviews and blurbs all bigged it up as better than One Day, his previous, very famous, novel, but I actually liked One Day better. My main issue with this was that I just didn't really like any of the three main characters. I appreciate my teenagers may be atypical, but I do get a little tired of portrayals of teens in books where they are totally rude and dismissive to one or both parents; lots of teens aren't like that at all - not as a good a book, I know. Also, being married to a science guy and therefore knowing tons of people in science, I can attest that many of them are actually just as knowledgeable about the arts as most non-science people I know, if not more so (my husband certainly is), so I guess the whole "I'm-a-scientist-I-don't-really-get-art-and-I'm-kind-of-autistic" vibe doesn't work as well for me. That said, it was still well constructed and there was a lot of real feeling in the book, it just didn't grab me the way One Day did.
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