Reviewed by Rama Gaind.
By Holly Miller, Hodder & Stoughton, $32.99.
It’s an original concept, this storyline that poses a heartbreaking question: would you choose love, if you knew how it would end?
Such is the case with Joel and Callie, who both need a reason to start living for today.
While they’re not looking for each other, from the moment they meet it feels like the start of something life-changing.
Imaginative it is, but there’s a lot of anxiety and distress before we get to the end.
Even though Joel has sworn off falling in love, he can’t help but be drawn to Callie, who introduces him to a second chance at life. Callie discovers the kind of love she’d always hoped was real – in Joel. They challenge each other to take chances, to laugh, and to trust that no matter how hard each falls, the other will be there to catch them.
Told in Joel and Callie’s voices, this is the stuff of fantasy!
Haunted by visions about the people he loves, Joel is fearful of the future. He has images of the good and the bad and the only way to prevent them is to never let anyone close to him again.
Callie can’t let go of the past, feeling lost since the death of her best friend, needing to be more spontaneous and to live a bigger life. She has to find a way back to the person who used to have those dreams.
Then when Joel’s fear comes true and he has a dream about Callie, each has to decide on future action.
The Sight of You is an individual love story … upsetting, empathetic, about suffering, hope and wanting happiness. It lingers long after the last page.
