More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Baby ducks, these girls. Imprint on the first vampire they ever see.
This story is one long messed up satire of Robert Pattinson an Kirsten Stewart's relationship
Because all year I’ve been interested in her life. I ask her how her day was and I actually listen when she tells me. Because how else could I convince you that I was a thirty-two-year-old divorced high school algebra teacher?
I think this story captures Billy's journey from self obsession to empathy pretty well - however, it is written in the present tense, from a first person view while also having the narrator constantly refer to herself in the third person, pretty weird and, to be honest, not at all necessary - and this makes you wonder if the narrator actually learned anything at all at the end of the story. There isn't a sense of progression in the narration from a period of "how I was" to " how I am now" if you get my drift - maybe this is intentional but I can't say I am a fan.
My point? Compared to those thirty-three years between Mr. and Mrs. Christie, nineteen years is practically nothing.
Makes you wonder, actually, if age is just a number, pretty convincing, except for the really disturbing fact that the narrator is just 15 and is in love with a 34 year old. We can rationalise anything if we try hard enough.
