![]() ![]() It also means that parts of the story are revealed slowly, and we don’t find out the secrets Griffin has been hiding until the book is almost finished. By the second time, we know a lot more about Theo, and that makes the loss all the more upsetting. So we get to read about Theo’s death twice, because once isn’t heartbreaking enough. The narrative is split between the current timeline, and Theo and Griffin’s shared past. The story is narrated by Griffin, who is talking to Theo, which makes for very intense reading. It was Griffin who ended things with Theo, because he didn’t want to hold Theo back when he moved to Santa Monica, but he always believed they would end up together. Alongside his grief is this theme of trying to prove to others that although he and Theo weren’t together anymore, he deserves to grieve Theo’s death more than others, including Theo’s current boyfriend Jackson. Theo was his first love and the loss has hit him hard. It hurts even more because this isn’t the first promise you’ve broken.” “you should know I’m really pissed because you swore you would never die and yet here we are. This book is packed with emotion, and we’re thrown straight into it from the start, with narrator Griffin telling Theo: History is All You Left Me might not have had me screaming for a plumber to deal with my leaking eyeballs, but it slowly broke my heart and it still hurts now. ![]() When I first finished reading this, I told everyone it wasn’t as sad as They Both Die at the End. ![]()
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