![]() ![]() What I liked most about Kyle and the way Benoit created him was that he seems so real. (I don’t care much for Ashley because she was a little too ‘Valley Girl’ for me, but more on how that relates to the plot later on.) We follow 15 year old Kyle as he goes through the everyday, same old, same old motions of his life: listening to the nonstop bickering of his parents, (especially his mother who just seriously won’t lay off) the mundane and pointless moments he spends with his group of terribly unmotivated and typical hormonal teenage boy friends, (known at their school as ‘hoodies’ because all they wear is, you guessed it, black hoodies), and what’s most important to Kyle, his fascination and love for Ashley, the girl that just always seems to be out of reach. Even though Charles Benoit’s You isn’t like that exactly, (we learn our main character’s identity within the first couple of pages) I found this YA novel to be unlike anything I’ve ever read, storytelling wise. ![]() (Which, is a cool element to a story in my opinion). When I first began this book, I thought that this was going to be one of those novels that doesn’t list the name of the protagonist for the entire novel. But then, how do you explain all the blood? How do you explain how you got here in the first place?” “You’re just a typical fifteen-year-old sophomore, an average guy named Kyle Chase. ![]()
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