I don’t know if you’ve ever felt it but when I really love a character and shitty things happen to that character I literally ache. To be honest, I did quite like Jackson and Griffin, even though I knew it was unhealthy and pretty toxic but I don’t know? I guess I just liked how they understood each other and were there for each other and that also hit me in the heart. But then Griffin breaks up with Theo, and Theo gets a new boyfriend, and then Theo dies. I thought they were adorable and they loved each other so much and their relationship just had that beautiful first love quality to it that hits me right in the heart. Griffin goes through so many things in History and none of them are wiped away with an “easy fix”. But this book is also about growth and learning and letting people in.

This is a book that will tear your heart out and make you ache for a happily ever after and want everything to be right.

And Griffin definitely doesn’t always get it right but I swear that made me love him even more. Because people are not always going to make the right decision, or say or do the right thing. And I guess that’s what does make him the perfect character. He feels so incredibly real when you’re reading about him. Griffin is the kind of nuanced character that everyone wants to read about. I thought I’d like History Is All You Left Me because it sounded gorgeous and everyone loved More Happy Than Not (don’t kill me because I haven’t read it yet! I have the ebook and will be rectifying this ASAP), but I honestly don’t even know if I expected to love it this much?įirst, we have Griffin. But as the grieving pair grows closer, readers will question Griffin’s own version of the truth-both in terms of what he’s willing to hide and what true love means. When Jackson begins to exhibit signs of guilt, Griffin suspects he’s hiding something, and will stop at nothing to get to the truth about Theo’s death. In an attempt to hold onto every piece of the past, he forges a friendship with Theo’s last boyfriend, Jackson. OCD-afflicted Griffin has just lost his first love, Theo, in a drowning accident. How: A copy of this novel was provided by Soho Teen for review via Edelweiss. What: History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

History is all you left me book review