Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is narrated by Greg Gaines, a boy whose mother forces him to hang out with Rachel, a friend he hadn’t spoken to in years, who recently found out she has cancer. When he becomes her friend, Greg loses the invisibility he had “built” for himself throughout his time at high school.

The best thing about this story is that it’s honest, as the narrator himself recognizes. There’s no beautiful love story or meaningful quotations that make you question what life is all about. It’s a story that could happen in anyone’s life. Some moments are sad, some are happy, and, overall, the situations are realistic. There is, however, a very annoying aspect in the narrative. Greg is constantly complaining about his own book and predicting that the reader won’t enjoy it. This really disrupts the flow of the story.

It’s the best book to read when you are trying to take a break from all of your “heavy” readings for school, or when you want something that can be read very fast. For something similar, I would recommend John Green’s Paper Towns or Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower.