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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in the camp of having adored this book.  It was an immediate add to my top 10 favorites list.

I think either the characters resonate with you or not. I feel the opposite of them being unlikable; they really tore at my heartstrings in every way.

This book made me feel everything deeply.  The characters were so tortured in the best kind of way.

I think like everything in life, your own life experiences will shape how you experienced this book. [/quote]

I agree with all of this! [/quote]
OP here. Usually wien I don’t like a book other people like, I can at least understand the appeal, even when I do t feel it. Help me understand the deep feelings you had for these characters. SPOILER ALERT

Sam stopped talking to Sadie for years over the service hours thing. Ok, he’s a kid who just lost his mom, so I understand his overreaction.  But when Sadie discovers that Sam may have known about the relationship with the professor when he asked her to get Dov’s help and instead of talking to him about it, she attributes all these terrible motives to him, that he’s stealing all the credit, and she estranged herself from him for years — what kind of great friendship was that? She treated him terribly. And what’s with the relationship with the weirdo professor who totally took advantage of her when she was a student; he was teetering right on the edge of abuse.  But *him* she manages to stay friends with? Really? Then all of a sudden Sam is devastated that she’s with someone else; I thought he was asexual! Zevin never described any kind of romantic or sexual interest there. Where did that come from? And the way she rebuffed his friendship over and over after their friend died (can’t think of his name, but he, Sam’s mom and the grandfather were the only characters I liked). When she was finally willing to talk to him after the grandfather died, there he was, still chasing the crumbs of attention she deigned to give him and then bam, book’s over.[/quote]

They were two very broken people who had experienced traumas that were never healed - and if they had healed from their traumas may have had a very lovely love story. In fact I do think they loved each other very deeply. The game he made for her? Truly an act of love.[/quote]

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