Because You'll Never Meet Me
Leah Thomas
Because You’ll Never Meet Me
Leah Thomas
Ollie and Moritz are two teenagers who will never meet. Each of them lives with a life-affecting illness. Contact with electricity sends Ollie into debilitating seizures, while Moritz has a heart defect and is kept alive by an electronic pacemaker. If they did meet, Ollie would seize, but turning off the pacemaker would kill Moritz.
Through an exchange of letters, the two boys develop a strong bond of friendship which becomes a lifeline during dark times - until Moritz reveals that he holds the key to their shared, sinister past, and has been keeping it from Ollie all along.
Review
Isobel Moore
Written entirely in letters, from the point of view of two teenage boys, one in the States and one in Germany, Because You’ll Never Meet Me tells the story of two people who can never meet. Moritz has a pacemaker, and Ollie is allergic to electricity, so meeting Moritz would kill him. While the story plays with their emotional connection and has a great twist along the way, the real appeal of this book is the relationship between the two boys as they go through their very heightened and stressful adolescence. Their growing friendship is realistic and vital, and it’s really great to see such an interesting friendship as the focus of the novel.
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