An exquisitely heart-warming tale
By Olivia Scott-Berry / Spinebreakers Crew
Here is a book which will completely startle you in an awesomely crazy way with an utterly amazing flair. Carnegie Award winning author Meg Rosoff has written a stunner of a novel which will keep you guessing right up until the very end. Strap yourself tight onto this emotional rollercoaster…
After being expelled from two schools successively, our unnamed protagonist is sent to a grim boarding school in East Anglia. Whilst slacking on a dull, grey afternoon, out on a dreary school run, his world suddenly brightens when he meets Finn. Finn is everything he isn’t, fit, smart, handsome, and lives in complete seclusion, without the irritations that being a schoolboy brings. Continuously disobeying his teachers, he visits Finn in his solitary shack, solidifying a tentative friendship. But something’s not right…
Rosoff has written a stunning book which will make you gasp louder than ever before, as she cunningly pens a brilliant plot. Although it can be hard at times to identify with the annoying bleating narrative of our whining main character, the fiercely stubborn Finn easily balances out this bellyaching with a firm, but remarkably effective silence.
By and large, What I Was is an exquisitely heart-warming tale, with an astounding plot. I would recommend this book to older readers, it is a eerily beautiful yet unexpected love story which will stick in your mind long after you’ve put it down.