Helpful Score: 3
This was such a great book. I felt so much of what the characters were feeling. I found myself smiling, laughing, crying and feeling actual anxiety like I was living their situation. I know, it's pathetic to be that involded with fictional characters. But, that's the thing. Nate, Adam, Luke, Danial and Juliet are so well written, that I was able to feel like I was there with them. I can name on one hand the books that have made me feel this close to the characters.
Don't Let Me Go is appropriate for YA. It is clean, the sex is handled delicately and I believe young people who are struggling with or coming to terms with their homosexuality will easily identify with these characters. That said, I am a 47 year old woman and I identified with them. Anyone who is or has ever been a teenager (and who hasn't?) will feel things and remember their own high school experience.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Not just for lovers of M/M romance, although it is at heart, a gay romance. It is also a story about friendship, being a parent, being a child and all the mistakes we all make in life and redemption for some of those mistakes.
Don't Let Me Go is appropriate for YA. It is clean, the sex is handled delicately and I believe young people who are struggling with or coming to terms with their homosexuality will easily identify with these characters. That said, I am a 47 year old woman and I identified with them. Anyone who is or has ever been a teenager (and who hasn't?) will feel things and remember their own high school experience.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Not just for lovers of M/M romance, although it is at heart, a gay romance. It is also a story about friendship, being a parent, being a child and all the mistakes we all make in life and redemption for some of those mistakes.