BOOK REVIEW: Malaise by Max Henry

Malaise by Max Henry

Published date: 11th October, 2016

Genres: Romance, Contemporary, New Adult

Pages: 468

Format: Ebook

Rating: 5*

Synopsis: Final exams and end of year parties don’t seem so important at your brother’s funeral.

Two short weeks, and Meg would have survived her senior year relatively unscathed. But when her best and only friend—her brother—dies in a questionable road accident, being the loner in her year doesn’t fit as well as it used to.

One act of kindness from the man her small town isolated amidst rumors and lies, and her hope for a day where pain won’t overwhelm her doesn’t seem so far-fetched. Brett Carver is trouble with a capital T, but he’s also the only person who can get Meg to let go and smile.

Some good things are never meant to last.

Arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, the man who finally found a way to bring light back to her dark days is ripped away when she needs him most. Determined not to lose the only good thing to have come out of her year from hell, Meg sets out to prove Brett isn’t guilty. But first, she must accept the ugly truth …

… that the people who can prove his innocence are the same people who will do all it takes to keep them apart.

REVIEW:

I started this book knowing basically nothing. I had only read the synopsis and a couple of bookstagrammers had said that they enjoyed Max Henry’s books so I gave it a shot. 

It wasn’t a pity shot or a ‘’hm, let’s see if this is worth my time’’, none of that. The synopsis had awoken a huge curiosity inside me so I NEEDED to read this.

This was the first Max Henry book I read and I must say that I started with the right book, not that any other wouldn’t be a good introduction to the author’s books, but in a way, I connected to the story and some aspects of it.

Throughout the whole book my heart would beat so freaking fast. My concern for Meg and her life was so damn real that I was always worried of what would happen next because nothing seemed easy for her or at least less hard than it already was. What she thought she wanted wasn’t what she needed. Yes, she needed for her parents to love her and cherish her but she needed to find herself alone and by alone I mean without others influence. Once again, yes, Carver is in a way an influence in her life but he pushes her away so she fights for what she truly wants and must do to achieve everything in her life. He doesn’t want her to give up on her future for him.

I can genuinely say that this book made think of my own life choices and all the obstacles I’ve endured. This story shows us clearly, even though we already have a pretty good idea of it, that is quite hard to endure and that there will be a lot of ups and downs (mostly downs) but it doesn’t mean we should give and leave our dreams be just dreams and not a reality.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE You must read it!