Name: We Are Inevitable
Rating: 3.295454545454545 (22 reviews)
ISBN: 9780425290804

Gayle Forman

After losing his brother, mom, and most of his friends, Aaron Stein is left with his shambolic father alone in their moldering secondhand bookstore, but just when he considers selling the store he meets new people and takes on new challenges, helping him come to terms with what he has lost and who he wants to be.

We Are Inevitable

This was cute, but nothing extraordinary. It wasn't until the very end that I got much of anything from it. I actually thought most characters felt cartoonish for a while. I did love the little cameo at the end. As someone who has lost a sibling, once it got near the end I was very connected to the story and was interested and touched with what happened.

Sarah Campbell

Charmaine

Some things are just inevitable. People, circumstances, and life itself.

Aparna Eeshwar

“Twenty-six letters and some punctuation marks and you have infinite words in infinite worlds.”

Our narrator Aron is a nineteen-year-old boy, who owns the Bluebird bookstores along with his father Ira. He’s trying with everything in him to keep his family from sinking into debt. While constantly thinking about the inevitability of what the future holds for him and his family. He goes to an Outhouse one night, where he meets his former bully Chad in a wheelchair. Aron, who’s strictly a book person, later meets Hannah, a band member of Beethoven’s Anvil and she convinces him that one can be a book person and music person, that both can co-exist and show him both are a means of storytelling. And everything changes from there.

Does he save his family? Or is their doom inevitable? I’m not telling you. I’m here to compel you into finding it out by reading this amazingly beautiful book. So here’s my pitch to you. 

This book is said to be a love letter to books and bookstores. But what I felt is, it’s also a reminder to booklovers why we fell in love with books in the first place. It’ll take you back to the moment you realized, “That’s it. This is my life now. I’m going to read book after book, gobble down words like that’s the only thing that can keep me alive.” remember the first book that made you feel that? The first sentence that got you like, “OMG What just happened to me!”. This book will constantly remind you of that feeling. Of what words can do to you, how they can break you and mend you at the same time.

What would you say if I tell you, reading this one book will give you 20 other recommendations? Gayle Forman gracefully wove titles of many great books into each chapter in this book and named the chapters after these books. It’s just marvelous. If that doesn’t hype you up, I don’t know what will.

This story revolves around literature references, music, family, friends, love, grief and, addiction. About how there is proof for dinosaurs’ existence, but how we will never know how they felt when the inevitable happened. And about how inevitable doesn’t always have to be a bad inevitability.

This is a 5/5 because it’s not just a love letter to bookstores and books but also a reminder of how twenty-six letters and some punctuation marks can create miracles.

We Are Inevitable

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