‘One thing’s for sure – it’s not your traditional YA book’
I’ve had my eye on this book for a while; the cover intrigued me and so many reviews raved about it. I finally read it when my friends started to tell me how good it was, the trailer looked amazing and the film was coming out. It’s fair to say I had quite big expectations; I was disappointed.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a young adult book about Greg Gaines, an (he admits it himself) ugly teenage boy who has a friend who he makes films with, and Rachel, a girl he is forced to befriend due to her getting cancer. It sounds like a John Green book, right? It’s not. It is the exact opposite. It’s (supposedly) funny, there is no romance involved and there’s not much sympathy for the cancer patient either. One thing’s for sure – it’s not your traditional YA book.
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