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A review by dinohakari
Meet Me in the Blue by A.M. Johnson
5.0
Such a beautiful story. I don't know how to describe it otherwise. Beautiful. Everything about it, the anguish, the loneliness, the grief, the longing and heartache, all the emotions are described in this book beautifully. You can't help but feel it. FEEL THEM.
Have you ever read a book written in prose that sounds like a poem? This is it.
"Miss what?” I stared at our old fort, at the surrounding trees, looking for something new. “The moment when everything turns blue.” I scrunched my brows together. “Blue?” "The blue hour, it's when the sun has almost set..." He stared up at the sky, the pink evening fading into night. “When the sun sits below the horizon, it makes everything look blue."
From the description of the landscapes, where if you close your eyes you can imagine yourself in that forest, in that fort, looking at the stars, watching the sunset, to the description of the feelings, which you can feel floating up from the pages and enveloping you: Luka's pain due to the loss of his father, the hearchache of knowing that his love for Rook would never be reciprocated and the knowledge that he left that friendship behind for years to try to get over it. His professional failure, or what he believes is failure. Rook's pain at that distance, the loneliness he feels at the loss of that friendship, a hole inside him that nothing can fill. The confusion over his sexuality, so well written, everything, everything about this book is a poem written in prose. Excuse me if I'm redundant, but that's how it made me feel and it was incredible.
"We’d fallen in love sometime between then and now, between the pages of our youth and climbing trees and the touch of his hand in mine and the heartache of missing each other."
So yeah, beautiful.
I am a huge fan of [a:A.M. Johnson|1013748|A.M. Johnson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1620512892p2/1013748.jpg], I have tried to read every book she has ever published, and it continues to amaze me her ability to express the emotions of her characters. And also her ability to intertwine her stories to make them even more incredible. For example, we have a brief cameo in this one from Anders and Ethan ([b:Not So Sincerely, Yours|57699806|Not So Sincerely, Yours (For Him, #2)|A.M. Johnson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1618191461l/57699806._SY75_.jpg|87023818], my favorite of hers) and Ron, who also appears in [b:The Glow Up|61366083|The Glow Up (Franklin U, #5)|A.M. Johnson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1658781345l/61366083._SY75_.jpg|96791483], is one of Rook's close friends and the one who helps him get started to understand himself and his feelings.
I know that I don't talk much about what happens in the book, but rather about what it made me feel, but I think that by reading the blurb, and perhaps other reviews, then it would not be necessary.
I look forward to the next book, which will be Ron's, because I'm sure it will be just as amazing as this one.
I was given an advanced copy and voluntarily wrote a review.
Have you ever read a book written in prose that sounds like a poem? This is it.
"Miss what?” I stared at our old fort, at the surrounding trees, looking for something new. “The moment when everything turns blue.” I scrunched my brows together. “Blue?” "The blue hour, it's when the sun has almost set..." He stared up at the sky, the pink evening fading into night. “When the sun sits below the horizon, it makes everything look blue."
From the description of the landscapes, where if you close your eyes you can imagine yourself in that forest, in that fort, looking at the stars, watching the sunset, to the description of the feelings, which you can feel floating up from the pages and enveloping you: Luka's pain due to the loss of his father, the hearchache of knowing that his love for Rook would never be reciprocated and the knowledge that he left that friendship behind for years to try to get over it. His professional failure, or what he believes is failure. Rook's pain at that distance, the loneliness he feels at the loss of that friendship, a hole inside him that nothing can fill. The confusion over his sexuality, so well written, everything, everything about this book is a poem written in prose. Excuse me if I'm redundant, but that's how it made me feel and it was incredible.
"We’d fallen in love sometime between then and now, between the pages of our youth and climbing trees and the touch of his hand in mine and the heartache of missing each other."
So yeah, beautiful.
I am a huge fan of [a:A.M. Johnson|1013748|A.M. Johnson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1620512892p2/1013748.jpg], I have tried to read every book she has ever published, and it continues to amaze me her ability to express the emotions of her characters. And also her ability to intertwine her stories to make them even more incredible. For example, we have a brief cameo in this one from Anders and Ethan ([b:Not So Sincerely, Yours|57699806|Not So Sincerely, Yours (For Him, #2)|A.M. Johnson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1618191461l/57699806._SY75_.jpg|87023818], my favorite of hers) and Ron, who also appears in [b:The Glow Up|61366083|The Glow Up (Franklin U, #5)|A.M. Johnson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1658781345l/61366083._SY75_.jpg|96791483], is one of Rook's close friends and the one who helps him get started to understand himself and his feelings.
I know that I don't talk much about what happens in the book, but rather about what it made me feel, but I think that by reading the blurb, and perhaps other reviews, then it would not be necessary.
I look forward to the next book, which will be Ron's, because I'm sure it will be just as amazing as this one.
I was given an advanced copy and voluntarily wrote a review.