Title:  When We Collided

Author: Emery Lord

Page count: 352

Published: April 5^th, 2016

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children

Genre: Teen / Social Issues

Received: Bought my self

Rating: 4/5

Summary:

We are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know…

Jonah never thought a girl like Vivi would come along.

Vivi didn’t know Jonah would light up her world.

Neither of them expected a summer like this…a summer that would rewrite their futures.

In an unflinching story about new love, old wounds, and forces beyond our control, two teens find that when you collide with the right person at just the right time, it will change you forever.

My Thoughts:

I don’t know if I have the right words that I need to write a review for this book because my thoughts are all over the place. Even though I have read this book a while ago. This book was amazing, it had everything that I loved about a book. I think there really needs to be more books like this out there. Not only dealing with mental illness but because of way the story it’s portrayed that its like your living it yourself as you read.

Jonah was such an amazing character to see his POV an how he deals with taking care of his siblings. Since his fathers passing. His mom is around but she is always locked away in her room and barley comes out because she is buried under grief with the loss of her husband. I felt like Jonah was an old soul an I couldn’t help but love him and want to help him.

In the beginning of this one I did have a hard time connecting with Vivi but once I did, I just flew though the book an didn’t put it down until I was done. Vivi is a care free 17 yr. old teenager who is spending the summer with her mom and working at the pottery shop. Even with all that she is dealing with Bipolar and depression. The author does a wonderful job talking about Vivi’s side of the story.

When Jonah and Vivi meet an get to know one another their story is one that works like no other because they can help one another in a way that I don’t think they knew was possible.