I didn't have certain expectations when I started reading this book, I just knew I was in the mood for a contemporary romance and that one happened to be my choice. From the first few pages, I was getting the strongest "Looking for Alaska" vibe from the novel and I didn't like it at all! "Looking for Alaska" is another book I don't really like and "Our Chemical Hearts" was almost identical as far as the atmosphere goes.

We follow Henry's POV and there were many times when I wished the book was written in a third person POV. For the reader to know stuff, Henry had to know them first and the way he discovered things about Grace was unnerving and he was totally breaching her privacy. Especially the graveyard and the track scenes, I really disliked Henry at these points, because those instances were for Grace and no one else! I know it served the plot, that the read needed to know about these things, but I would really prefer a third person POV, so that we would think that Henry was a stalker.

As far as the characters go, I couldn't relate or like any of them. Some, like Murray, I found to be too much and regarding our main duo, Henry and Grace, I just couldn't like them at all. I felt sympathy for both of them many times, but it stopped there. Nothing more nothing less. The whole romance was so toxic from the start and I felt mostly for Henry, because he didn't fully know at first what he was getting himself into, while Grace knew and I felt like she used him.

Lastly, I cannot forget Lola's (Henry's best friend) remark, she told him something along the lines of "stop loving a girl that didn't ask to be loved" and it rubbed me the wrong way, because you can't ask someone permission to fall for them! It's not something the mind decides, it's the heart and how cruel can you be, telling that to someone experiencing love for the first time? Of course, love isn't always reciprocated, but that's between the potential couple! Anyway, I don't think I'll be reading this one again.