Book #16 "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro: So you know when you will be talking about how your about to start a book that your really excited about and then someone is all like 'oh my gosh that was such a good book, your totally going to cry!' and then the whole time your reading the book you keep waiting for the part that is supposedly going to make you cry and it never comes and you start to question if the person who told you you would cry is just crazy or if you are just an awful person. Pretty much what happened with me and this book.
This book isn't at all what I honestly thought it was going to be about. There was a movie that came out based on the book back in 2010 and I remember watching the trailer but I don't know guess it just isn't what I thought it was going to be.
That being said that doesn't mean that the book wasn't good. Quite the opposite really. It was different and surprisingly well written; I say that because (if you don't all really know) the author is a male but the whole time the book is being narrated to us by Kathy H., whom is obviously female. It has been my experience that sometimes it is hard for male writers to get across a believable female lead, however as I said this wasn't the case this time.
So the story opens up with Kathy H. basically just telling us a little about who she is and whatnot and then as easy as if you were just having a conversation with just about any one she gets reminded of something that will lead her to start telling a story about her past and then that reminds her of something else and so on.. that is basically how we, as readers, end up learning all about her and her friends (Ruth and Tommy) time at their special boarding school Hailsham. Hailsham holds many important memories not only of the past but also to allow Kathy and her friends to latter on put together the puzzle of what for and where they fit into it in the big picture of I guess life in general.
As I said when I first starting reading this I had kinda thought maybe they are just orphans and just are i don't know clueless about life in the outside world? But oh gosh no! That is so not the case. I don't want to tell you so much because I don't want to give it away because Ishiguro has a way of giving you all the information that you need in the perfect timing instead of throwing it all at you in a rush. Sorry not trying to gush but that is something else that he did a really good job on.
May I just say that it is not at all what I thought it was and just leave it at that? Hmmmm, probably not. Okay let's see...trying to figure out what I could tell you. How about this? The kids are not normal kids and have a very important, and to be honest sad, purpose in life that they have no way of getting out of or really questioning.
Yea, I think that is the best I can do without ruining to much of it :P hopefully that just makes you wanna read it even more!
I will quickly give one disclaimer that there was a whole bunch of kinda blunt/awkward talk about sex. I mean yea, most of us are old enough that is it isn't that big of a deal but I just want that said considering that I am recommending this book but probably not for anyone under 18. Just putting that out there.
But yes! I highly recommend this like for real read it, read, it, read it! :D
Alright so for book #17 you guys, whomever you are reading this, are probably going to laugh but I have a book version of "The Fantastic 4" lol it is a novelization by Peter David and don't make fun but I am kinda super excited about it. (and not just because there might or might not be a picture of Chris Evens on the front of the book ;P) anyways yea, so there is that.
That's all for now,
Michaela Jane
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