{"id":6857,"date":"2016-04-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2016-04-05T12:03:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T17:03:38","slug":"b-for-both-of-me-by-friesen-book-review-they-meet-yet-only-12-of-him-remembers-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6857","title":{"rendered":"B for Both of Me, by Friesen (book review) – they meet, yet only 1\/2 of him remembers her"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Counting stars,
\ntraveling light and often,
\navoiding entanglements, until…<\/p>\n

Scam artist teen always on the move meets an artistic young man with two personalities and a near-psychic knowledge of what she’s running from – how can Clara resist trying to tap into what Elias “sees”?<\/p>\n

But Clara never planned on falling for Elias or struggling to understand his dissociative identity disorder<\/a> or making a road trip toward answers that could imperil them both.<\/p>\n

Completely different worlds from the dystopia that Friesen brought us previously in Aquifer<\/em>\u00a0 (my notes here<\/a>), the Salem that calm Elias wanders through in his mind, the minutely ordered existence that angry Elias tries to catalog, and the everyday world that Clara longs to leave behind.<\/p>\n

Is there ever just one personality inside you?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Both of Me \/ Jonathan Friesen. Blink, 2014.\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Dual-personality Elias somehow knows more about her past than Clara wishes to recall, but their journey to verify the answers stretches both young people’s affection and endurance – and Elias’ hold on reality.<\/p>\n