Review : Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Posted by Kay on July 24, 2015 2:46 am in 4 stars reads | 2 comments

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Pages : 295
Genre : YA
Stand alone
My Rating : 4/5

About the Book  :

My Thoughts :

It’s almost impossible to review Me and Early and the Dying Girl without mentioning that other book with a dying girl. You know the one. And yet, Jesse Andrews’ cancer story could not be more different from John Green’s heartbreaking tale.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is hilarious. I seriously can’t remember the last time I laughed this much while reading a book – and at the sillest things, too! I haven’t been a teenager in a long, long time, and yet I was completely entertained. My brain might have shrunk a size or two in the process, but hey, it was definitely worth it!

The book was so refreshing in so many ways : the humor, the male point of view, the lack of romance or other weepy occurences, the complete self-centeredness of the main character (which could be extremely annoying and unpleasant to some readers, I’m sure; but I was fully amused by the trainwreck that he was!) I loved that secondary character Earl was much more of a traditional, likable protagonist, and yet we were stuck following Greg around. His awkwardness was uncomfortably real, to my greatest pleasure.

And Rachel, a.k.a. the Dying Girl, is quite unremarkable. That too, was a surprising yet refreshing touch. Depressing, maybe. But as said before, this book couldn’t be farther away from The Fault in Our Stars. It won’t give you hope and butterflies, far from it; but if Greg’s sarcasm and faulty character work for you, then you’ll be in for an amazing wild ride!

It’s clear that I loved this book. Maybe as much as The Fault in Our Stars – just in a different way. And I love that, too; how two authors can take a subject, and twist it into two completely different tales. Tragedy or Comedy. Both absolutely brilliant.

Now, I cross my fingers that the film won’t let me down!