I didn’t immediately warm to Griffin as the main character, which is understandable as he’s dealing with the death of someone he loved. I really wanted to like it because of the intersectional diversity that was covered, but the characters weren’t very likable at all. History is All You Left Me is a book that approaches many different diverse topics – OCD, anxiety, gay relationships and unhealthy relationships woven into the past and the present. Griffin isn’t ready to deal with any of this, but life hits him face on and his OCD compulsions hit hard. What’s even worse, is that Griffin has to deal with Jackson’s grief, who was Theo’s current boyfriend when he died. Grief is a hard thing to manage, especially when you lose your best friend/kind of boyfriend who you’ve grown up with most of your life. But as the grieving pair grows closer, readers will question Griffin's own version of the truth – both in terms of what he’s willing to hide, and what true love ultimately means. And Griffin will stop at nothing to learn every detail of Theo’s new college life, and ultimate death.
In a desperate attempt to hold onto every last piece of the past, a broken Griffin forges a friendship with Theo’s new college boyfriend, Jackson.
OCD-afflicted seventeen-year-old, Griffin, has just lost his first love – his best friend, ex-boyfriend and the boy he believed to be his ultimate life partner – in a drowning accident. It hurts even more because this isn’t the first promise you’ve broken. And you should know I’m really pissed because you swore you would never die and yet here we are. You’re still alive in alternate universes, Theo, but I live in the real world where this morning you’re having an open casket funeral. Genres: Young Adult, Diversity, Contemporary, Own VoicesĪmazon | Book Depository | Publisher | Booktopia | Barnes & Noble Published by Simon & Schuster UK on February 9, 2017 History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
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