Moments of friendship, of cute romances, of friendly bickering, stupid jokes, and so much joy. And it really makes me hope I haven’t been the cause of sadness in someone’s life, because after reading this book, I see what it does to a person.Īnd yet, even with all the pain, there were so many parts sprinkled through the book that made me laugh. And for some reason, that was awing to me, because I’ve never realised how much of an effect we can have on people, and how much we shape other people’s lives. We saw when they caused each other pain or happiness, and we saw how each person left footprints on the other. What left me really speechless was the way we saw the characters have an effect on each other. You go through every moment of Griffin reminiscing what he lost, and it really, really hurts. The book was a trip down Griffin’s memory lane- his friendship with Theo, which turned into a romance, went into heartbreak, and ended with tragedy. We start the book by finding out about Griffin’s dead ex-boyfriend, and right from then, even when you’re barely introduced to the characters, you can feel your heart getting hollow, as if it’s making room for all the sadness that’s gonna well up in there. Adam has a way with words that make you feel like you’re being repeatedly punched in the gut. If Griffin is ever to rebuild his future, he must first confront his history, every last heartbreaking piece in the puzzle of his life. He’s losing himself in his obsessive compulsions and destructive choices, and the secrets he’s been keeping are tearing him apart. But no matter how much they open up to each other, Griffin’s downward spiral continues. To make things worse, the only person who truly understands his heartache is Jackson. But now, the future he’s been imagining for himself has gone far off course. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right.
When Griffin’s first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Instead, it was like being crushed with sadness where your organs just want to get out of your body and your heart just physically hurts, you feel me? Though I only teared up once or twice in the book, I didn’t really all out sob in this book. Can I just start by saying that Adam Silvera’s books are too powerful for my weak human emotions, and they should be locked up securely in vaults and then thrown to the bottom of the sea, because I as a mere mortal, cannot take the intense heartbreak, and his books basically turn me into Sadness from Inside Out.
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