Il Nostro Infinito Momento (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
I feel like the only reviews I write are for books I didn't like, but I guess that's because books I like I feel satisfied with, whereas the ones I'm not happy with I feel this urge to write about it, to think it over and mull over the various reasons why I didn't enjoy it. Anyway, The Infinite Moment of Us was interesting for me because I checked this book out of the library years ago when it first came out. I know it sounds silly to say "I was young then", because the book didn't come out that long ago and YES, I'm still a teenager now, but I WAS a lot younger when I first read it. Too young to understand that the love that was depicted in this book is not the type of love I should be aiming for. Back then, I thought that the way Charlie thought was the way every guy thinks. That the love that Wren and Charlie had was the type of lusty passion that every girl should want.Well, I checked the book back out again a few weeks ago, and reading it again made me have a completely different reaction. No longer did I think their relationship was what every teenager has or wants to have. No, the love portrayed in this novel was really intense and sort of unrealistic and a little bit obsessive, to be perfectly honest. But, hold on, I'm getting ahead of myself here. The book starts out with eighteen-year-old Wren, the product of a strict but loving household who, big shocker, is tired of following every one of her parents' rules. They bribe her with a car (YES, A CAR) if she doesn't have a boyfriend before she graduates. Wren is supposed to go to med school, a dream that is (again, another cliché) not necessarily hers, a dream that might just have been moulded by her parents, especially her father, a man who thinks he knows what's best for his daughter. Wren, being the wholesome girl that she is (or that her parents need her to be), volunteers at the hospital, and long story short, she sews up the thumb of this vulnerable, broken sex god of a boy who just happens to be her age and who is head-over-heels in love with her. Soon they begin a whirlwind, passionate romance that I did not enjoy this book at all. I did not enjoy what Wren and Charlie's relationship was based off of. Also, Wren couldn't even comprehend how Charlie would choose his family over her. Wren was very selfish when it came to the relationship. Another thing that really, really bugged me was the dialogue. Every page the characters were just talking about sex! They acted like there was nothing more to talk about. I will not be picking this book up to finish it.
What do You think about Il Nostro Infinito Momento (2013)?
i thought it was an amazing story of love between to teenagers whos lifes are bearly starting.
—MzzVickie
