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This was a bit of a letdown after "I'm Not Scared" to be quite honest. I would have liked the story to be longer, for one. I would have liked to learn more about Olivia and Lorenzo. Instead, it feels like we're left with half a story. Still, it was quite an interesting read.
Three and a half stars, really. A short-and-bittersweet novella from an Italian author I clearly need to investigate more fully, Me and You tells the story of Lorenzo, a fourteen-year-old social outcast. He doesn't have any friends at school -- but he also kind of doesn't care. His mother cares, tho...
Lorenzo is no typical teenager, he is a sheep in wolves clothing or as he puts it a fly pretending to be a wasp. In school this tactic helps him get by but it does notmake him any friends. So he remains uninvited to the ski-trip his classmatesare planning. On a whim he tells his mother he’s going an...