Writer : Taylor Jenkins Reid
Editor : Titania
Page : 288
Synopsis
Elsie Porter is a young girl with a simple life. A New Year's Day decided to go out for a pizza and while waiting, he meets Ben Ross. The chemical will be instantaneous. Ben asks if he can call sooner or has to wait the three statutory days. Elsie is disarmed before his sincerity and respect. In two weeks they are madly in love and can not live without each other. Ben asks her to marry him and she accepts. They go to Las Vegas and get married without even notifying their families.Nine days after the wedding, Ben goes with his bicycle to buy some candy and a truck run over. He died instantly. Police carried to the hospital and there Elsie certify his death. Her best friend Ana to support her, but also her mother Susan, who has never heard of her daughter appears.
You can not believe her son had gone with her for six months and got married without telling her. The differences between them will become apparent and will have a difficult challenge to overcome them. An incredible story about death, grief and true, able to survive adversity, over time ... and even death love.
Opinion
Por siempre unidos is one of those readings to expect little and eventually find much. I liked it more than I had expected and I enjoyed this different and very nice leisurely reading.From now notice, as I said in Goodreads, which I think is a novel that might not appeal to everyone, unless you're the kind of reader who does not give too much importance to the plot and enjoys meeting and deepening the characters as well as a beautiful pen. And why do I say this? Because really Por siempre unidos things just happen.
It is a very quiet, slow, emotional book. In fact, the synopsis is a comprehensive summary from the first to the last page, so do not you read! Seriously, do not do it. It is best to discover the little "surprise" between its pages.
I understand that it was difficult to make a synopsis of the novel, but had not gutted both the plot, it sure was a more subtle way to approach it. You might be wondering what the novel is, then. Elsie Porter and Ben Ross just married, although only known for six months, and are madly in love with each other. But this life that share is truncated when Ben leaves home to buy a bike Elsie a box of cereal and a truck run over him. Ben died on the spot. And part of Elsie, he also goes with it.
The premise of the story is very painful and I admit that I quite excited these early chapters. And yes, like almost all be thinking, novel inevitably recalls the now legendary PS, I love you.
The work of Taylor Reid Jenkins delves a bit in those same concepts: suffering when you lose one, dear person how difficult it is to recover and move on with your life as if nothing had happened, how hard it is to find that silver lining ...
This novel is hard and raw, even though everything is told with great sensitivity and great care. You can tell when an author has put care and delicacy in every word, every paragraph, every scene and dialogue. This occurs Por siempre unidos.
Maybe to many how to write this author go unnoticed, but I have found it very nice with short and forceful, intense, emotional and very real sentences. Because the story itself is so real. You believe it. Maybe that's why it may seem slow or monotonous, precisely because life is a bit like that.
A Elsie anything special after the death of his great love does not happen. A Elsie touches overcome, period, no other way out. The factor most dynamic gives the history and get to keep reading inertia is in addition to the smooth and simple narrative, the fact that the chapters are short and also these alternate between past and present (with time including storytelling, right!).
So, while we are witnessing the loss of Elsie and how much it costs to accept that Ben will not return, we will also discover how they met, how was your first date, the development of their relationship ... And yes It is a relationship that I loved.
So pretty, so tender, so sincere. As for the secondary characters, not too many, but the few that appear are well developed. Some simple sketches, as Elsie's parents or the lord of the library, while others take shape and own life, like Anna and Susan. All I liked very much, really. Including both protagonists, who are very well developed and you really think you know when you finish reading the novel. And speaking of end ... the end, the final sentence ... yes, I acknowledge that I have dropped a tear. It was inevitable.
Por siempre unidos is a leisurely, delicious and big surprises story, but that will delight readers who enjoy the small details and a beautiful and very moving story at times. A story of loss, pain but also to excel, of hope that has snuck into the top of the best reads of the year.