Title:  Holding Up the Universe

Author:  Jennifer Niven

Page count: 391

Published: October 2016

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Yonge Readers

Genre: Teen, Love and Romance

Received: Bought myelf

Purchase: Amazon

Add to: Goodreads

Rating:  5/5

Summary:

Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed “America’s Fattest Teen.” But no one’s taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom’s death, she’s been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now, Libby’s ready: for high school, for new friends, for love, and for every possibility life has to offer. In that moment, I know the part I want to play here at MVB High. I want to be the girl who can do anything. 

Everyone thinks they know Jack Masselin, too. Yes, he’s got swagger, but he’s also mastered the impossible art of giving people what they want, of fitting in. What no one knows is that Jack has a newly acquired secret: he can’t recognize faces. Even his own brothers are strangers to him. He’s the guy who can re-engineer and rebuild anything, but he can’t understand what’s going on with the inner workings of his brain. So he tells himself to play it cool: Be charming. Be hilarious. Don’t get too close to anyone.

Until he meets Libby. When the two get tangled up in a cruel high school game—which lands them in group counseling and community service—Libby and Jack are both pissed, and then surprised. Because the more time they spend together, the less alone they feel. Because sometimes when you meet someone, it changes the world, theirs and yours.

My Thoughts:
This book follows a girl named Libby and boy named Jack. Libby was formally “Americas fattest teen”. After her mom passed that’s when her whole life changed. Then one day after she has lost a significant amount of weight she decides that she wants to go back to school after being home school for so long.

Jack has everything in high school that he could want lots of friends and a pretty girlfriend. There is one secret that he has been hiding from everyone. Is that he can’t recognize peoples faces. Me personally I don’t know how I would handle that waking up every morning and not be able to recognize my family. That’s what Jack must do every day an he has found tips and tricks to remember peoples face. It turns out that Libby is the one that helps him because she is the only one that knows about it.

I loved how these two came together and there ending is kind of perfect if you ask me. This book has so many important messages behind it that everyone should read it.

This is a very unique story I don’t think that there are others like it, if there is I haven’t found them but I would love to read them. I completely fell in love it the whole idea is beautiful I just can’t get enough of it. I know that I will be for sure reading this in the future