About the Book:
Title: The Square Root of Summer
Author: Harriet
Reuter Hapgood
ISBN 13: 9781626723733
No. of Pages: 295
Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
COPY: Review Copy.
Price: 350 INR
This is what it
means to love someone. This is what it means to grieve someone. It's a little
bit like a black hole. It's a little bit like infinity.
Gottie H. Oppenheimer is losing time. Literally. When the fabric of the universe around her seaside town begins to fray, she's hurtled through wormholes to her past:
To last summer, when her grandfather Grey died. To the afternoon she fell in love with Jason, who wouldn't even hold her hand at the funeral. To the day her best friend Thomas moved away and left her behind with a scar on her hand and a black hole in her memory.
Although Grey is still gone, Jason and Thomas are back, and Gottie's past, present, and future are about to collide—and someone's heart is about to be broken.
With time travel, quantum physics, and sweeping romance, The Square Root of Summer is an exponentially enthralling story about love, loss, and trying to figure it all out, from stunning debut YA voice, Harriet Reuter Hapgood.
Gottie H. Oppenheimer is losing time. Literally. When the fabric of the universe around her seaside town begins to fray, she's hurtled through wormholes to her past:
To last summer, when her grandfather Grey died. To the afternoon she fell in love with Jason, who wouldn't even hold her hand at the funeral. To the day her best friend Thomas moved away and left her behind with a scar on her hand and a black hole in her memory.
Although Grey is still gone, Jason and Thomas are back, and Gottie's past, present, and future are about to collide—and someone's heart is about to be broken.
With time travel, quantum physics, and sweeping romance, The Square Root of Summer is an exponentially enthralling story about love, loss, and trying to figure it all out, from stunning debut YA voice, Harriet Reuter Hapgood.
Review
The book is
a YA romance & Science-Fiction book which has certain patches of romance.
Totally recommended to people who love space, black holes, time travel and
everything astronomy related and of course the mathematical equations that made
you love mathematics.
The book
starts when nearly a year has passed since the death of Gottie’s Grandfather
Grey has passed away and Jason the boy she fell in love with has stopped being
there for her. She keeps blaming herself and the depression that she has
drowned into. As she passes out at certain occasion without any factors other
than those “Wormholes”. But this summer
her best friend, Thomas is coming back from Canada to spend the summer with her
after being away for five years without ever being in contact this whole time.
Throughout the summer Gottie is dragged by and sucked into the wormholes that allow
her to go back in the past and relive the moments and those time travel moments
make her fear that she’ll never come back in the present. But every time Gottie finds out a way out of the
wormhole she grieves the death of Grey. Her journey of the discovery of how she
is sucked into the wormholes is described as the void created in her heart due
to the loss of the people around her. The void completes the loop when Jason
breaks up with her. Gottie is supposed to write an essay given by her physics
teacher and submit it at the beginning of next term. She connects the dots of
all the events over the past year and the summer this year and that’s a big
discovery as explained by her teacher.
The book
throws a light on the relationship that Gottie shares with her Grandfather Grey
& how he has shaped her to be the person that she is. Thus she is in
depression when he passes away. Won’t we
all feel the same way when someone close to our heart leaves us forever and we
can’t image what our life will become without them being with us?
Gottie on
the other hand is a character that is witty, flawed vulnerable, wounded and
hilarious at all times. Every other character in the book has justified their
roles thoroughly.
The
illustrations of physics in the book are very good correctly explained to
people who have no connection with physics at all. The book is creatively
written, well researched in terms of physics and mathematics. I loved the book
as I have always been a curious person when it comes to anything related to
space and black holes and astronomical sciences and being an engineer helped me
understand physics way better.
Rating:
4.5/5*
(Note: I was sent a review copy of this book in exchange for honest review. This review is my opinion on the book which may differ from your take on it)
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