{"id":8769,"date":"2017-06-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2017-06-09T11:19:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T16:19:12","slug":"why-so-candid-because-youll-never-meet-me-by-leah-thomas-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=8769","title":{"rendered":"Why so candid? Because You’ll Never Meet Me, by Leah Thomas (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookElectricity flares in rainbow colors<\/a> – and will kill Ollie.
\nMoritz has no eyes, yet is not blind<\/a>.
\nAnd a doctor suggests that they correspond…hmmm<\/p>\n

Find this penpal story like no other in hardcover or paperback at your local library<\/a> or favorite independent bookstore<\/a>. And there’s a sequel<\/a>!
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0Because You’ll Never Meet Me \/ Leah Thomas. Bloomsbury USA Childrens, hardcover 2015, paperback 2017. \u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: One is allergic to electricity, the other is kept alive by a pacemaker – two very different teen boys become more than brothers or best friends through postal mail, uncovering a secret past that endangers them both.<\/p>\n

Ollie must stay in a forest cabin, far from any US city because the tiniest bit of electricity sends him into life-threatening seizures, and says that being 14 and alone is extremely boring.<\/p>\n

Moritz, seeing with his ears only, lives with his adoptive father in a busy German city, has a pacemaker for his fluttering heart, and at 16 is beyond bored with his schoolmates.<\/p>\n

A doctor sets them up as penpals, so the guys begin telling one another their life stories through trans-Atlantic letters.<\/p>\n

Their childhoods were quite strange, with parents gone missing and medical lab mishaps, and real-life friendships today are very difficult. Ollie misses Liz, who’s given up hiking in their woods for the normalcy of high school. Moritz finds a tenuous connection with Owen and his sister Fieke as bullies target all three of them.<\/p>\n

These letters exchanged by Ollie and Moritz start encouraging each other to dare to live a little, even if it’s dangerous – as dangerous as the secret past that their shared memories begin to reveal.<\/p>\n

Followed by Nowhere Near You<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Electricity flares in rainbow colors – and will kill Ollie. Moritz has no eyes, yet is not blind. And a doctor suggests that they correspond…hmmm Find this penpal story like no other in hardcover or paperback at your local library or favorite independent bookstore. And there’s a sequel! **kmm Book info:\u00a0Because You’ll Never Meet Me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,51,41],"tags":[90,22,4,197,11,20,5,70,16,196,18,40,44,46,147,43,39,27,49,184,15,9,21,66,35,33,58,3,6,8,28,61],"class_list":["post-8769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mystery","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-bullying","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-determination","tag-disability","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-germany","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Because-Youll-Never-Meet-Me.jpg?fit=420%2C635&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8779,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/8779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}