As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.
Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.
No Word I say can capture the feelings this book made me feel. "Never Let Me Go" changed me with just 300 pages. It was subtle, moving and chilling.
But more than anything, everything about the story was so, so, sad. Imagine being resigned to a fate that you don't deserve, something that's so very unfair. Imagine not being allowed even the possibility of something more. That's Kathy's life, always knowing that she'll have to give herself up before she's even lived her life to the fullest.
Don't expect the usual elements of Sci-fi or Dystopian fiction. when you open the book, because it doesn't exactly fit any of these.Kathy and Tommy's love, though not the most important part of the story, is so touching, I wanted everything to be okay for them and I rooted for them so badly. Even Ruth made me cry.
I always find it so much harder to write about the books I love.
After reading the book, I immediately watched the movie adaptation, and it was beautiful.
(better read the book before you go further)
5 STARS
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