Meg Rosoff's way of expression is one of a kind, but can be hard to understand. At the end of the story, I didn't get what actually happened to Bob. And how come he magically disappeared without Lucy? Lucy and Luke, as the ending suggested, became an entity. This is an odd story, and I think Meg...
I will write a longer review later/in a few days.This book was pretty nice, at least in the beginning. Later on in the book it got quite confusing with the amount of characters. Bob, Mr. B, Luke, Lucy, Estelle, Eck, Mona. It was quite chaotic, and I sometimes didn't even know who was talking now....
Review published here: http://www.hipsterbookclub.com/review...Meg Rosoff's novel What I Was will early on remind readers of John Knowles's classic coming of age tale, A Separate Peace. Both books feature an adult narrator reminiscing about his time as a 16-year-old in a boarding school and the d...
Actual rating: 3.5 "I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn’t one that could touch us."Recommended with some reservations.I read this book on accident. By "accident," I don't mean I mistakenly read a book instead when I thought I had been playing Plants vs....