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Pub Date: April 5, 2016
ARC via Bloomsbury for honest review
Rating: 5 Stars
Meet Vivi and Jonah: A girl and a boy whose love has the power save or destroy them.
Vivi and Jonah couldn't be more different. Vivi craves anything joyful or beautiful that life can offer. Jonah has been burdened by responsibility for his family ever since his father died. As summer begins, Jonah resigns himself to another season of getting by. Then Vivi arrives, and suddenly life seems brighter and better. Jonah is the perfect project for Vivi, and things finally feel right for Jonah. Their love is the answer to everything. But soon Vivi's zest for life falters, as her adventurousness becomes true danger-seeking. Jonah tries to keep her safe, but there's something important Vivi hasn't told him.
Perfect for fans of E. Lockhart and Jandy Nelson, When We Collided is a powerful story of two teens whose love is put to the test by forces beyond their control.
Oh my sweet cherries. Emery Lord, I liked
your last book (just liked) but hooooooly goodness, WHEN WE COLLIDED was incredibly
compelling, heartbreaking and cheerful and gorgeous. I’ve never had bipolar
disorder described to me quite like this. I think I understand a bit more, and
I really can’t tell you how grateful I am for that.
Can I hug you now?
Vivi and Jonah. Jonah and Vivi. They sure did collide. And,
my, were the sparks glorious. Jonah is helping to hold his 7-person family
together with the help of his two older siblings after the death of his father
left his mother unable to gather the motivation to get herself up from her bed.
Vivis just left Seattle after a hypomanic episode left relationships on the
rocks and the depressive episode awarded her a physiatrist.
The tone of this book had me anxious the entire time I was
reading it. I was falling in love and terribly worried. I felt like I was Vivi’s
mom. Anxiety-ridden and completely taken with this gorgeous, lively human who
feels every single thing there is to feel. I adore Vivi and her love for the
paint shop and Jonah’s family, the way she accepts people without questions and
her bravery against darkness. She’s an incredibly relatable character.
Lord does something with the way this book is written that
really drew me in. I don’t know if it was simply that I felt like I knew Jonah
and Vivi, or if it was how I watched them grow from this
maybe-friends-with-benefits to holy-sweet-baby-Jesus-I-love-you that really got
to me, but it got to me. This book follows them falling for each other in a
realistic way, as well as details their own personal issues. Neither one of
them was perfect, and it wasn’t just that they were perfect in that mental illness
wanted to be friendly with the two of them, but the fact that they were human.
Sometimes they didn’t listen close enough, didn’t consider the other’s
feelings, snapped a little too quickly.
I mean, I just love them.
Their imperfectness makes them human, and their human-ness
makes them relatable. The dual POV worked SO WELL for WHEN WE COLLIDED. The
reader is allowed to see the inner workings of with Vivi’s mind as well as
Jonah’s. This worked so well. Lately, I’ve been getting annoyed where there is
more than one POV. This use of it delighted me.
WHEN WE COLLIDED is brilliant. It’s worth reading. The true-as-I’ve-seen point of view of bipolar disorder was
incredible.
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