Aye yi yi. The Absolute Value of -1 is what happens when you don’t find out what a book is about before you add it to your reserve list after seeing it mentioned on a blog. I should stop doing that.
Then again, if I had looked at the Amazon reviews, I wouldn’t have gotten much help – pretty much everyone loves it and nobody bothers to talk about the Suzanne/Simon problem. And oh boy was that a problem.
I don’t get it. Don’t find it believable, not based on the stories told by Lily, Noah, or Simon. Ditch that whole part and would Simon have been the same guy – yea, I think he would have been, which is why I don’t find the Suzanne/Simon attraction believable. The rest of the book (which is really most of it) is excellent.
But dude, Suzanne/Simon – the relationship… told in that way, too weird and just not right. Not at all right. Weird. Weird. Weird.