Approaching a youth novel when you are not so young anymore is an act of empathy with yourself, with who you were. Hence this review, an interest in the way of seeing the world that approaches you when you have not yet reached the adult who awaits you.
At book Remember that timeHowever, I have not found a juvenile reading to use. And in a way it comforts me while it awakens certain qualms (I must be a grumpy old man by now).
However, what to say about the plot ..., the truth is that it is very good The approach is pure science fiction, but it also has a meeting point of the adolescent with himself, reflected in the role of Aaron Soto, the protagonist. We cannot ignore that within youth there is also turbulence and anxiety as well as energy and vitality.
This book disguises itself as science fiction to propose existential paradigms about the feelings of the young man who awakens to maturity. Happiness, the ideal of belonging, friendship, the past and the future ... But the author never loses the north. At all times he knows who he is addressing and pulls the language of young people (language in the sense of the way of seeing life, between hectic and crazy). That blessed madness.
And in the end he succeeded, the book transported me to the age of juvenile limbo, where the sensations are more intense. Adam Silvera is not fussy or clichéd to talk to us about youth and to speak to youth. He knows that fantasy still dazzles these children with bodies in transition and presents them with an intense story with the most complex aspects and the most marked contradictions of the young.
And why shouldn't young people read something that they are undoubtedly living inside, at whatever level? A yes for juvenile literature without indoctrination, whatever the subject. Without a doubt, a reading of this book can make any teenager see himself reflected. And feeling that literature can also have its heart can only serve for a general openness.
You can now buy the novel Remember that time, Adam Silvera's debut feature, here:
