On the first day of senior year, Greg thinks he's got a survival guide for high school all figured out: become a member of every clique possible but keep a low profile and do not make any friends. Then it goes down the drain when his mom forces him to re-befriend a girl with cancer. 
 Delivered with a refreshing narrator, hilarious moments of truth and a sad feeling of lost, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews is so much more. It takes the oh-so-typical-story- person A has cancer, person B becomes A's friends and slowly both fall in love with each other but person A sadly dies in the end,- into something else entirely. It feels more real and more alive. It offers a new perspective that is bold and is just bursting with personality and just delivers the story. 
 The thing that stuck out the most were the characters and the narration. They were both so realistic, so hilarious and amazing. The narration was fluid and simple yet carved a certain truth. It masked something heavier with its wittiness and humour yet felt fresh. The characters were realistic and vivid and left such an impression on you. For the record, I adored Earl but wait, I think I liked everyone. 
 Then the epilogue came and I was weirdly grief-stricken like something important was taken from me. Ahh, it hurts. 
 So it's that good of a book that your heart will feel heavy when you get to the epilogue: fast, swift and dramatic but strangely, you still feel okay.