L.L. Meyer's Reviews > Within You

*SWOON-FILLED SIGH* One of my favorites this year!

"We'll find a way through this, I promise. Together. I'm with you."

I love that feeling of opening a new book and never knowing where the story is going to take you. Well, I just took a trip to dystopian London and its environs and I enjoyed every second of it!

Maya has always known something was off about her privileged existence under the Dome in the heart of London. She can't seem to take anything at face value and she finally decides that her questions need answers, answers that she won't get unless she goes out and finds them herself . . . which leads her to Juan.

Gah! I loved these two.

Maya was a wonderful combination of pragmatic and optimistic.

"Maybe I am scared," she said. "But I'm at peace with the fear when you're here."

Juan, on the other hand, was thoroughly jaded.

"Sometimes the stars are just the stars."

But somehow they suited each other perfectly.

I really loved the tone of Within You. It was quiet, intelligent, and thoughtful.

"At the end of the day, there are many things more terrible than thoughts."

And the quality of the writing was aspirational.

Juan's thumb was a soft metronome over the back of her hand. Maya drew a deep breath and let the peace of it fill her.

I'm so looking forward to whatever comes next from this author!