History Is All You Left Me is a deeply sad book, perfectly in tune with human nature and yet never manipulative as it explores love, friendship and grief between four boys. I stayed up late last night to finish this book and, I confess, I had chills down my spine as I came to the final page. The author Adam Silvera really captures what its like to loose a loved one in this novel which makes you connect with a variety of feelings and past thoughts that you previously don’t associate with a book.People are complicated puzzles, always trying to piece together a complete picture, but sometimes we get it wrong and sometimes we’re left unfinished. I will defiantly be reading this book again due to the realness of the heartache you feel while reading about the ways the characters grieve over their friend, acquaintance, boyfriend or family member (depending on which character you are hearing about).

This structure allows the reader to re live the story that is being told while still catching up with what is happening in the present day. I was pleasantly surprised by the structure of the book, skipping chapters from history to today kind of like a very mixed up diary format.

In my opinion Griffin always puts his own emotions before other characters who are also grieving, believing himself to be the only one who deserves to have feelings over the deceased. I find Griffin to be self involved and extremely selfish when it come to other characters feelings in the book. Although the novel is primarily about the character Griffin I am the first to admit that even though he gives the novel substance I don’t like him. I enjoyed reading about grieving about the love that was shared rather than a love story itself. Overall I enjoyed reading the book, it was a genre that I enjoy and the story line was refreshing. At first glance the cover of the book is appealing and the colour scheme is calming however reading the book makes you realize why the front cover looks like the ocean and its significance.

The book follows a 17 year old boy Griffin and his grieving process over his first love Theo. I have recently read History Is All You Left me written by Adam Silvera and published by Simon & Schuster in the UK.

History is all you left me