Name: Althea & Oliver
ISBN: 9780142424766

Cristina Moracho

"First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2014."--Title page verso.

Althea & Oliver

"Althea and Oliver, who have been friends since age six and are now high school juniors, find their friendship changing because he has contracted Kleine-Levin Syndrome"--

Talia Dominguez 

man I loved this book so much it hurts!!!! I love Oliver and Althea's story!

** spoiler alert **
           I picked up this book when I was at Barnes and Nobles and I needed a book to read. I did not read anything about it before or even read the description, I just bought it and started reading. I honestly have never hated a book as much as this one and not even for the writing style which is usually the reason for it. The reason I am giving this book two stars instead of one (I will get into that later) is because the writing was really good and I thought that the author has talent in her writing abilities. 

Okay now to why I absolutely despised this story:
Althea raped Oliver. Simple as that. She knew about his mental condition and that he wasn't himself at all in fact he didn't even remember any of the events that happened during his sleeping episodes. 

And all of the characters played it off like it wasn't anything, some even said that he was lucky. This book really proves that gender stereotypes and rape are still prevalent and misunderstood because the book basically says that men cannot be victims of rape and that since they know each other so well it can't be distinguished as rape. 

I just felt it was brushed aside and the whole thing obviously was important to Oliver (his virginity) and he felt like he was taken advantage of (which he was). 

The book made it seem like a small mistake when really it was a big one and that is why I did not like this book at all.

Tanner Evans

I'm not quite sure how I feel about this book. When I started and got a few chapters in, I had the feeling I wasn't going to care for it very much. I wasn't connecting to the characters, some parts of the novel were a little sketchy (and were never really resolved). However, there was a turn in the novel that had me finishing the majority of the book in a days time. I don't think my feelings towards the characters changed, but their situations did and I wanted to see where it all ended. And I am pleasantly surprised. It's not your typical teen romance novel, which is refreshing. It's a complicated story between two interesting and complicated characters. I think I would benefit from a re-read, which might alter my opinion of the story, as it was not the novel I was expecting it to be.

Althea & Oliver

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