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De afstand tussen jou en mij by Marina Gessner
5.0

I noticed I'd rated this book 4* and I was like, why? I've read my review again and I was like, way? XD I love this book so much and I recommend it to a lot of people so I've changed my rating to 5* because that suits my feelings about this book better.

What a beautiful coming of age story! I like the girlpower, the doing something by yourself because you want to, no matter what other people may think about it. It is very confronting because you instantly think the same - should she go on that trip alone? And why do you think that? Because she is a girl? Would you think the same if it was a boy? This is what is wrong with society.

And than we have the story. It is not predictable, I like that. I also like the character development in this story a lot. Trying to find your inner self, staying true to it, falling back in old habbits, getting yourself back toghether and going on in the direction you want to go.

And I think the ending fits the book perfectly. I always love it when an ending suits the story. And I like it a lot that this book is like nothing I've read before, because it is about hiking.

I highly recommend this book! If it wasn't for me being a BlossomBooks ambassador this year, I don't know if I would have picked this book up. I probably would think it was nothing for me because I don't like to hike, but it turned out you don't have to like hiking to like this book. Maybe it is even better, because this book will give you the opportunity to fall in love with something new.

I will defenitly go hiking with my boyfriend when we go back to Iceland, which we will do some day, for sure. I fell in love with that country, and reading this book will only make me go back to a place so empty, so full of beauty and nothing.