I read When We Collided for the October 2017 pick in my online book club, The Reading Cove.
While I thought the writing was fairly good, I wish I could say I enjoyed it more. Unfortunately, this just wasn't my cuppa book. Vivi wasn't very likable (in fact I found her downright annoying), being the poster child for bi-polar II disorder the entire book; her philosophical, metaphorical acrobatics notwithstanding. And her mother felt more like an incidental prop than an actual player in the story.
Meanwhile, I found Jonah and his family much more sympathetic and felt he deserved much better. The pacing was sluggish for most of the book, with an anti-climactic bi-polar apex Stevie Wonder saw coming from page one. And I won't even mention the loose ends...
Vivi shows a glimmer of hope in the end, but the road would no doubt be long, hard and tiresome. So I could only recommend When We Collided for fans of being immersed in reading about extreme bi-polar disorder. Something I just don't find even remotely enjoyable.
While I thought the writing was fairly good, I wish I could say I enjoyed it more. Unfortunately, this just wasn't my cuppa book. Vivi wasn't very likable (in fact I found her downright annoying), being the poster child for bi-polar II disorder the entire book; her philosophical, metaphorical acrobatics notwithstanding. And her mother felt more like an incidental prop than an actual player in the story.
Meanwhile, I found Jonah and his family much more sympathetic and felt he deserved much better. The pacing was sluggish for most of the book, with an anti-climactic bi-polar apex Stevie Wonder saw coming from page one. And I won't even mention the loose ends...
Vivi shows a glimmer of hope in the end, but the road would no doubt be long, hard and tiresome. So I could only recommend When We Collided for fans of being immersed in reading about extreme bi-polar disorder. Something I just don't find even remotely enjoyable.
