If there's a book you could compare it to I haven't read it. I have tried really hard and failed to think of books I can compare Far From You to. It's always good when books bring up issues or just things that aren't that common like home-education, it makes you feel like you are learning something but it's not teaching you in a boring way. I felt like I could relate to both Sophie and Mina during the book and I love it when you can relate characteristics from a book character to people you actually know or even yourself – although if you can relate the characters to someone in your life it's a way of making the story even more sad because you feel you are living the story instead of reading the story.įar From You brought up things that made me like it that much more such as: home-schooling, teen pregnancy and the difficulties of being gay/bisexual. But it was also the most heart-wrenching thing in the entire book, because when it jumped back to the past and made you read everything about Mina, I got so attached to her that when it was the chapters based on the present, I remembered that I had been reading the past and that Mina was dead and it would upset me all over again. The mystery of the story didn't feel like the most gripping part of the book, the most gripping part of the book for me was reading about Sophie's past and all the things she had shared with Mina all the stuff they had planned for the future and everything they had experienced together in the past. There was no one you thought bad enough to commit the murder.

There was no one I suspected as all the characters were made to seem really nice or just emotionally broken. It was quite unique as well because with most murder mysteries you have a long list of suspects and of murderers, but whilst reading Far From You I realised I didn't have a list.

Far from You by Tess Sharpe