I have no interest in reading this book when I saw it on Powerbooks but my best friend, Melo read the synopsis to me so that opened up my mind and hear to another David Levithan book.
This is very much unlikely of Levithan because knowing him from the book Everyday, the extraordinary protagonist lives in a very ordinary and realistic world. The main character struggles on its own and ends up sacrificing his love interest or so.
It ends up devastatingly (for perfect ending lovers) and lives you hanging and hoping that there's more. In this book, Stephen is invisible and only one person can see him, and why? This is not a spoiler review, but maybe, being the only girl that can only see the cursed Stephen, Elizabeth must have been extraordinary. So, that makes them two extraordinary people living an ordinary life in Manhattan.
I am not taking away credits from Cremer, and since I haven't read any of her works yet, I can't say much about her. Only, I think she was the reason behind this brilliant irony in the story.
In the middle of the story, it was nice to know that there is some kind of a cure for what has been done. There was hope. As I reach the further part of the novel, I got really bored and it slowed me down on reading. It took weeks for me to finish it.
The ending is still David Levithan-ish, if you know what I mean. I wasn't expecting the kind of ending it has because hope was presented in the middle of the story. There was a little spark inside me hoping for a miraculously good ending.
No spoilers intended so I am limiting my review with this: Love prevails and accepts what the eyes don't see. Every normality they thought was gone came back and they have no choice but to live with whatever they're satisfied with.
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