Emmy & Oliver

De: Robin Benway

Narrado por: Phoebe Strole

Emmy and Oliver were going to be best friends forever, or maybe even more, before their futures were ripped apart. In Emmy's soul, despite the space and time between them, their connection has never been severed. But is their story still written in the stars? Or are their hearts like the pieces of two different puzzles - impossible to fit together?

Emmy just wants to be in charge of her own life.... She wants to stay out late, surf her favorite beach - go anywhere without her parents' relentless worrying. But Emmy's parents can't seem to let her grow up - not since the day Oliver disappeared.

Oliver needs a moment to figure out his heart.... He'd thought, all these years, that his dad was the good guy. He never knew that it was his father who had kidnapped him and kept him on the run. Discovering it and finding himself returned to his old hometown all at once has his heart racing and his thoughts swirling.

Listeners who love Sarah Dessen will devour this program with hearts in throats as Emmy and Oliver struggle to face the messy, confusing consequences of Oliver's father's crime. Full of romance, coming-of-age emotion, and heartache, these two equally compelling characters create an unforgettable story.

©2015 Robin Benway (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers

The fights were on point

I loved the whole thing but the pausing at the periods were way to long it made me a little mad.

Good book!

its really a predictable love story... but still a good story. I enjoyed reading this book.

Enjoyable Listen

Enjoyable story that was wroth the credit. I'm really glad I listened to it and would recommend it to others.

Amazing story!

It was not predictable, the ending is perfect and wraps up the miny stories through out the book. I cried my eyes out during the last few minutes of the last chapter, but happy tears!

Compelling

Grade: B

After Emmy's next door neighbor and best friend Oliver is kidnapped by his father when they're seven, their whole small town changes. Her parents become controlling and overprotective, and Emmy feels an emptiness that nothing can fill. When Oliver returns ten years later, different yet the same, she wonders of if their friendship can resume, or maybe something more.

I only purchased EMMY & OLIVER because Amazon had the novel on sale for $1.99, thinking it would be a meh read, but finished this delightful story in a day. Although there were few surprises and not much happened, I enjoyed the characters' growth and maturation.

I loved Emmy's voice, the writing felt organic and held my interest. Even though I cringed when she constantly lied to her parents, I could understand her motivation since they treated her more like she was ten than seventeen. Oliver was very sympathetic and all of his emotions and thoughts made sense. Their sidekicks were interesting as well. The adults felt a little cliché.

The ending, while possible seemed unlikely but I can't say more without spoiling.

THEMES: friendship, romance, LGBT, kidnapping

EMMY & OLIVER is a compelling story about how one boy's disappearance and return as a young man rocks two families. I will look for other Robin Benway books in the future.

A Love that withstood an unknown distance in time

If you could sum up Emmy & Oliver in three words, what would they be?

Coming of Age

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

There were moments in this book that definitely made me laugh. Even though there are points in this book that really tug at your heart strings because of the books topic, the characters find the humor in finding one another again and getting to know who they have become as individuals and friends

Any additional comments?

This book was cute. I expected more of a romance between Emmy and Oliver, but in a way I am glad there wasn't. This would be a great book for a young teen. It is about loss of a friend, finding ones friend, and getting to know the people they have become and the hardships of a teen thinking most of his life he was abandoned to find out he was abducted by his other parent. Emmy and Oliver do form a tighter than friendship bond, but there is nothing sexual in this book that would make in inappropriate for a teenage girl looking for a book to crush on.

Not realistic

High school seniors in the 21st century do not use the word “lest,” nor do they hear “two more bites,” from their parents about eating. I’m assuming this is written by someone who does not have children because the reality is not believable I also kept waiting for something exciting to happen, but each even was just meh. Definitely only read to the end just to see what I would miss, but I will not recommend to any of my preteen or teen students.