Our Chemical Hearts
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4.5 • 22 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Now an Amazon original film starring Lili Reinhart (Riverdale) and Austin Abrams (Paper Towns).
'Irresistible, romantic and heartbreaking, Sutherland’s debut will have huge appeal to readers of John Green and Jennifer Niven.' The Bookseller
Henry Page has never been in love. The slo-mo, can’t-eat-can’t-sleep kind of love he’s been hoping for just hasn’t been on the cards—at least not yet. Henry’s too busy trying to get into a semi-decent college and become editor of his school newspaper, a dream three years in the making. The rest of his spare time he spends with his best friends, Lola and Murray, playing video games and advising them on their own sordid love lives.
Then he meets Grace Town, the elusive new girl in school, who wears oversized boys’ clothing, walks with a cane, rarely seems to shower, and is hiding crushing secrets. She’s hardly who Henry expected his dream girl to be, but when the two are chosen to edit the paper together, sparks fly. After all this time, Henry’s about to learn firsthand just how disastrous the road to first love can be—and that sometimes it’s the detours that end up mattering much more.
A brilliant novel from the author of A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares that is equal parts humour and heartbreak, Krystal Sutherland’s Our Chemical Hearts is a potent reminder of the bittersweet bliss that is first love.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Anyone who has felt the ache of first love will relate to Henry Page, a bookish high school senior unexpectedly swept off his feet. Henry, who has never had a girlfriend, isn't immediately attracted to new student Grace Town, who enters the school with a conspicuous limp, "dressed head to toe in guys' clothing" ("I'd seen junkies that looked in better shape than she did that morning," Henry says). Yet after Grace and Henry are asked to co-edit the school newspaper, his interest in her grows, fueled by Grace's on-again-off-again flirting. As romance blossoms, secrets about Grace's past and current situation emerge, and Henry begins to think that Grace may be beyond his help. Eloquently conveying the complexity of love and grief, debut novelist Sutherland creates a story filled with intriguing and memorable characters. Henry's quirky friends, dry-witted parents, and rebel-turned-neuroscientist sister (who offers sage advice on matters of the heart) add touches of brightness to this dark romance. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
I definitely hated that. (I definitely did not hate it at all.)
In fact, my friend, I am maybe 143% sure that this is one of my new favorite books. Can I just add, before I get into this review, that my eyes are red and puffy and my face is still dripping with H20 as we speak. My eyes are very much swollen and will be swollen when I wake up in the morning (because you better believe I bought and finished this book TODAY and stayed up till 3 to finish it.)
Not only was this book so very eloquently written, but it also touched my heart in a way books never have before. I’m going to admit, I was very...iffy? (Is that a word?) I don’t know...on the fence...yeah...Ok...I was very on the fence about whether to read this book or not because I’m a big fan of happy endings, (they make me happy *smile emoji*,) and I’d been told by some people that it wasn’t a very happy ending. But, I couldn’t resist a teen love story so I picked it up in hopes of being...I don’t know...blown away...
BOY WAS I BLOWN AWAY!
My whole life, love has blown up around me. No love has stuck and it really hurt my heart to read this book because—being the romantic I am—I want to believe that there is a love out there for me, (yes even with my parents, aunties, grandparents’s marriages falling apart.) But, it really changed my perspective.
Love is such a beautiful thing, whether you believe there’s a scientific explanation to it or not. To find love and to find comfort in someone else, someone you depend on and you spend copious amounts of time with, all for you to come together in a bed at the end of the day (that double entendre was not intended but I’m going to carry on because you have a dirty mind and I’m trying to be sincere.) Whether your love lasts a day, a month, a year, ten years, hell even a lifetime, it’s still magnificent. That spark, that attraction. The fact that it was even there...it’s amazing to feel that within your soul. The love meant, means something. That feeling means something. Even just for a day.
I felt Henry’s heartache. I felt it. My heart physically ached that he didn’t get that love that he, and I, so desperately crave.
I am getting seriously off track here.
But, this book teaches you things. I think...possibly...that’s the most important thing. That even in all it’s tragedy, it teaches you things. Love, hope, heartbreak.
So that’s why, my friend, this book is important for you to read. Take time to read and feel it.
Because I sure as hell did.
Thank you for this beautiful book.
I’m gonna go buy 50 hard copies now. :)
(Kinda want to reference The Sun is Also A Star, if you enjoyed this.)