BOOK REVIEW: Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi | The Book I Wanna Re-read As Soon As I Finished It

 

Publication Date: March 27, 2018

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Romance

Page Count: 394 pages

Synopsis:

For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind.
Sam’s stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him.
When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch—via text—and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.

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My Thoughts:

First of all, I appreciate the synopsis for not giving away too much information because it felt so good to just be unraveling the plot while reading it.

This book kind of speaks to me on a personal level because I could somehow relate with Penny as she's a writer with imposter syndrome. Writing has been my passion since I was in elementary school but after graduating college, I just didn't know what to write anymore and I honestly just didn't make time for it. I also sometimes think that I'm not really a good writer. Hehe *awkward laugh* Throughout this book, we would be getting a glimpse of Penny's writings and I like how what she writes can somehow reflect how her life is.

I like how Mary H.K. Choi wrote about Penny and Sam in an honest and raw way. It's like getting into their minds and just thinking their thoughts and it actually feels like we are them. Choi wrote about these two characters with no judgment and that's what made everything feel so true. I really admire how we didn't get perfect characters and that's one of the things that I love about this book because it showed that Sam and Penny are real people dealing with the real world and experiencing real things that their age group experiences.

The alternating points of view and the text messages surely helped in making this book as immersive as it is and that's what made this book so easy to just get through. It's just one of those books that I couldn't stop reading because I can't get enough of Sam and Penny and I just can't wait to see how it ends. I love how this book managed to focus on both the characters and the plot's development. 

My Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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