The Catastrophic History Of You And Me (Jess Rothenberg)

Brie is a normal, soon- to -be sixteen year old. She has 3 best friends, a boyfriend she loves, a little brother and parents who are still together. She has everything anyone would possible want.

But now, she is dead. Dead from a broken heart. All because her boyfriend, Jacob said "I don't love you anymore" and maybe because she has a heart problem. But according to her, it was because of Jacob.

Being dead sucks in so many ways. First, she has to read the D&G (dead and gone), a book about afterlife. Second, she has to grieve though her own death and go though denial, anger, bargaining, sadness and acceptance. Third, Patrick, another dead kid, is showing her about the afterlife. But he won't tell her anything all at once.

Things have to get worst before they better. But maybe it will all be worth it in the end.

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This book was so funny, sad and depressing all at the time.

The main focus in this book was characterisation, which worked well, given each stage of death was boned to change Brie.

Like many romance books, the ending was incredibly predictable. But it was about Brie, not about the ending of the novel. It was about watching her change and grow up.

The emotional setting in this book was really good. You could feel what she was feeling, even though hardly any emotion was written about.

The author also used symbolism really well, which is strange because usual authors don't use it at all, but this book needed it, for the plot to make sense.

The plot was good. But there was no suspense or surprises, except for very minor ones. The only things that held up the plot was the characters and a little symbolism. It worked really well, even though the plot was not driven at all by suspense.

Conflict was weird in this book because it changed so much. Brie was always battling someone or herself differently because of the emotional setting.

I really liked this book. The only thing that could have been done better is the plot.

4.75 out of 5 stars