Because You'll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas

BUT I just saw that a sequel is coming perhaps two years in the future? (TWO FECKING YEARS? I SHALL NOT SURVIVE THIS TORTUROUS TIME). I LOVED this book, okay? I finished it, and had that EURGH happy feeling that’s also accompanied with a sad IT’S OVER feeling. Perhaps because my headcanon, created before I even read the book, came halfway true? Also, my headcanon would be that the two boys would fall in love. I fell in love with the characters, and their stories. From about 100 pages on, I was completely captivated. At about 60 pages, I was thoroughly unsure about it. I wasn’t sold on Because You’ll Never Meet Me when I started reading it. These extraordinary voices bring readers into the hearts and minds of two special boys who, like many teens, are just waiting for their moment to shine. Both hermits from society, the boys develop a fierce bond through letters that become a lifeline during dark times-as Ollie loses his only friend, Liz, to the normalcy of high school and Moritz deals with a bully set on destroying him.Ī story of impossible friendship and hope under strange circumstances, this debut is powerful, dark and humorous in equal measure. But Moritz would die without his pacemaker. If they ever did meet, Ollie would seize.

Moritz’s weak heart is kept pumping by an electronic pacemaker. Contact with it causes debilitating seizures. Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. In a stunning literary debut, two boys on opposite ends of the world begin an unlikely friendship that will change their lives forever. How: A copy of this novel was provided by Bloomsbury Australia for review. What: Because You’ll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas

Because You'll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas