Arc Book Review: Where I End and You Begin by Preston Norton

Title: Where I End and You Begin

Author: Preston Norton

Page count: 304

Published: June 4th, 2019

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Genre: YA / Teen

Received: From Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

Rating:   3/5

Summary:

Ezra Slevin is an anxious, neurotic insomniac who spends his nights questioning his place in the universe and his days obsessing over Imogen, a nerdy girl with gigantic eyebrows and a heart of gold. 
For weeks, Ezra has been working up the courage to invite Imogen to prom. The only problem is Imogen’s protective best friend, Wynonna Jones. Wynonna has blue hair, jams to ’80s rock, and has made a career out of tormenting Ezra for as long as he can remember. 
Then, on the night of a total solar eclipse, something strange happens to Ezra and Wynonna–and they wake up in each other’s bodies. Not only that, they begin randomly swapping back and forth every day! Ezra soon discovers Wynonna’s huge crush on his best friend, Holden, a five-foot-nothing girl magnet with anger management problems. With no end to their curse in sight, Ezra makes Wynonna a proposition: While swapping bodies, he will help her win Holden’s heart? but only if she helps him woo Imogen. 
Forming an uneasy alliance, Ezra and Wynonna embark on a collision course of mistaken identity, hurt feelings, embarrassing bodily functions, and a positively byzantine production of Twelfth Night. Ezra wishes he could be more like Wynonna’s badass version of Ezra–but he also realizes he feels more like himself while being Wynonna than he has in a long time?
Wildly entertaining and deeply heartfelt, Where I End and You Begin is a brilliant, unapologetic exploration of what it means to be your best self. 

My Thoughts:

The one thing that intrigued me about this book was the body swapping. I also enjoyed the movie Freaky Friday with Lindsay Lohan and the new one that was recently out on Disney also 17 again with Zac Efron. I did read another book like that called Body Swap by Sylvia McNicoll. My review for that I gave it 3 stars. If you liked this book, then I think that you will like that one also.

This book follows a guy named Ezra who is shy. He is fascinated with a girl named Imogen, one night there is a total solar eclipse and something weird happens to Ezra and Imogen’s best friend Wynona. When they wake up there in one another’s bodies. one of the things that I did like was they would continuously swap bodies with one another not just the once. Over the course of them swapping bodies Ezra learns that Wynona has had a crush on his best friend Holden. The funny thing about this is they have been enemies for the longest time and due to the solar eclipse, they must come together and figure out how there going to get back into there own bodies.

I did enjoy this book. it had his hilarious moments which anyone would have if they were in someone else’s body.

One of the things that I did love about this book was that you get the perspective of latterly walking in someone else’s shoes which I think is needed in todays world for so many reasons.

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