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We Are Okay
by Nina LaCour
A beautiful message, some beautiful writing, but it was relatively boring.
This appears to be a story about two friends coming back together after ~something~ happens to them. This mysterious something remains unclear for most of the story, and it alludes to this big elephant between them being more about their feelings towards one another than anything else. But as the details of their relationship and feelings come out it is clear that there was something much bigger that led them to where they are. We hit about 55% before this is made clear though.
So basically, I spent over half the book under the impression that it was about something other than what it was about. And I think that was my largest issue with the book, I was so focused on the relationship aspect, and hoping for some sort of closure/healing moment between them that I kinda missed the big picture.
Marin gets hurt by someone that she cares very deeply about. It makes her question everything about who she is, which as a result leads to her pushing away the people that she cares about. She feels alone and afraid, she doesn’t know who she can turn too because she feels like she doesn’t know herself anymore. And that is what this story is about. It’s about finding people to help you feel less alone, finding people who accept you even when you don’t know how to accept yourself. I was anticipating a story about healing and closure and instead I found one about facing your problems and accepting that you have to let yourself hurt before you can heal. It’s about acceptance both within yourself and within others, and it’s about finding someplace that you belong.
I can’t really get into the plot much more than that without giving anything away. For what it is, this story is beautiful. The ending had me in tears, but other than that I didn’t really have any type of reaction to this book?
Overall this book was a disappointment to me. It tried to tackle important issues, but danced around them a bit too much to really do them justice, at least in my opinion. I have no doubt that this book is amazing to readers who need a book like this in their lives, but for me I was just unable to connect to it.
This appears to be a story about two friends coming back together after ~something~ happens to them. This mysterious something remains unclear for most of the story, and it alludes to this big elephant between them being more about their feelings towards one another than anything else. But as the details of their relationship and feelings come out it is clear that there was something much bigger that led them to where they are. We hit about 55% before this is made clear though.
So basically, I spent over half the book under the impression that it was about something other than what it was about. And I think that was my largest issue with the book, I was so focused on the relationship aspect, and hoping for some sort of closure/healing moment between them that I kinda missed the big picture.
Marin gets hurt by someone that she cares very deeply about. It makes her question everything about who she is, which as a result leads to her pushing away the people that she cares about. She feels alone and afraid, she doesn’t know who she can turn too because she feels like she doesn’t know herself anymore. And that is what this story is about. It’s about finding people to help you feel less alone, finding people who accept you even when you don’t know how to accept yourself. I was anticipating a story about healing and closure and instead I found one about facing your problems and accepting that you have to let yourself hurt before you can heal. It’s about acceptance both within yourself and within others, and it’s about finding someplace that you belong.
I can’t really get into the plot much more than that without giving anything away. For what it is, this story is beautiful. The ending had me in tears, but other than that I didn’t really have any type of reaction to this book?
Overall this book was a disappointment to me. It tried to tackle important issues, but danced around them a bit too much to really do them justice, at least in my opinion. I have no doubt that this book is amazing to readers who need a book like this in their lives, but for me I was just unable to connect to it.