Summary
A love that's been around since she was a teenager. A man who had her heart from the very beginning of everything, was taken from her on her twenty-eighth birthday in a terrible car accident. Lydia Bird can't cope with her grief. She struggles to get by when her own misery is overwhelming her. She can't even get a good night's sleep until she starts taking sleeping pills. Little does she know that those seemingly harmless pills are what reunite her, if only temporarily, with the love of her life in her dreams.
Two worlds and two lives. Lydia starts to function in both and before she knows it, it's become second nature to travel between the two alternate realities. In one world, she gets to continue her life with her Freddie like the car accident never happened. In the real world she is having to gradually recover from her loss. She's having to pick herself up and keep moving. With the help of Lydia's (and Freddie's) best friend, Jonah, and Lydia's sister, Elle, she works on functioning in her real life. Despite all of this, though, there's always a part of her wanting to go back to the world where Freddie's still alive.
Now, while she's moving on with her real life, she can't seem to move on from the alternate reality. This is a story of the hurdles that Lydia Bird encounters while trying to juggle her two very different lives. Will she be able to handle the emotion toll that jumping between realities causes? Will she ever truly be able to move on when she still gets precious moments with her love?
Opinion
Scale of 1-10:
9
This was such a beautiful and emotional book. By the end of the book, I was feeling the happiness and struggle that Lydia Bird felt throughout the entirety of the story. It was only about half way through the book that I really felt invested so that's why I didn't give it a perfect ten. The ending REALLY made up for it, though! I was going to give it an 8 until I read the ending and I just couldn't bring myself to giving it any less than a 9.
There were honestly a couple moments in the book that made me get misty-eyed. There were so many touching moments between Lydia and her friends and family in the real world that really made you understand why she struggled going back and forth between her realities.
I heard so many great things about this book and now I really see what the hype was about. The is a truly amazing story that, even with its dark themes, has many humorous and lighthearted moments that really make you fall in love with the characters. It's definitely a must read!
Age Rating
13-14+
So the only few things that are present in this book is cursing and some sexual references, jokes, and implications. Lydia Bird's fiancé, Freddie, mentions sex a few times throughout but it's never anything graphic. There are a few scenes with kissing and it heavily implies that the two characters had sex afterwards, but nothing is described or graphic. Many of the sexual jokes are made by Lydia's female friends when they talk about their husbands. It's fairly humorous and doesn't last very long.
The language isn't really all that constant throughout the book. Words like the F word, "sh**", "piss", "damn", "b**ch", "hell", and "ass" are said. These words are littered throughout the book but it's never a lot of it in one setting.
That's about it for the inappropriate stuff. Other than that, this book obviously deals with heavy stuff like death. Lydia's pain is graphically described in moments when she's feeling really down about her life in general.
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