Love And First Sight ARC Review
Shoutout to HBG Canada for providing me this ARC copy in return for an honest review!
Rating: 3.5/5
Summary:
On his first day at a new school, blind sixteen-year-old Will Porter accidentally groped a girl on the stairs, sat on another student in the cafeteria, and somehow drove a classmate to tears. High school can only go up from here, right?
As Will starts to find his footing, he develops a crush on a charming, quiet girl named Cecily. Then an unprecedented opportunity arises: an experimental surgery that could give Will eyesight for the first time in his life. But learning to see is more difficult than Will ever imagined, and he soon discovers that the sighted world has been keeping secrets. It turns out Cecily doesn't meet traditional definitions of beauty--in fact, everything he'd heard about her appearance was a lie engineered by their so-called friends to get the two of them together. Does it matter what Cecily looks like? No, not really. But then why does Will feel so betrayed?
Told with humor and breathtaking poignancy, Love and First Sight is a story about how we related to each other and the world around us.
Thoughts:
Before asking for a review copy of this book, I honestly thought the title was Love At First Sight, but it was actually Love And First Sight. Ergo, when I was reading the summary, I don't know where my mind was at but apparently it was in lala-land. So when I started reading, I got really confused at first, and I had to go back and reread the summary. So that was a great start.
This wasn't what I expected the book to be. It's a refreshing book for me because the POV is new and I haven't read a book quite like it. Yes it's contemporary and it's bound to be romance, but it was really cool being able to have a bit of knowledge about what it's like to be visually impared. I think that Mr Sundquist did a good job in interpreting it and it made it easier to understand. While reading this book, it really changed my perspective on things and it made the wheels on my head spin and more aware. Throughout the book, I was able to know what it's like to be in Will's head. I think that this is an important piece of the book that made it all come together.
I love Will's brain. I really do. He has a great sense of humour and despite his situation, he makes the best of it. His relationship with Cecily started in the wrong foot, but the more they spent time together getting to know what it's like in each other's minds and understanding one another, it just got better and better. The pace was going well and it paid off especially when he was able to see for the very first time and it was just so emotional (for me at least) and it felt like I was able to experience being able to see for the first time as well. Although I'm contempt with the ending, I really want more insight to what happens next in Will's life. Still, I enjoyed reading it and I want to be able to read more books like this in the future, because it is interesting, educating (if the author does it very well) and it gives importance to friendship, trust and the sense of belonging and having that connection with someone.
