We are a quarter of the way through the novel and we haven’t seen or heard from Elio once apart from a phone call but I have a feeling that the three sections of the novel are going to focus on one character, so part one is Samuel, and then parts two and three will belong to Elio and Oliver. This doesn’t seem to bother Samuel at all as he has previously mentions that in the past he and his girlfriend at the time cheated on each other and makes it seem like nothing which isn’t something I appreciated as a reader. Luckily we learn that Samuel has already gotten divorced at this point in his life so he is currently unattached but Miranda has mentioned that she is currently seeing someone. Over the course of this lunch, Miranda and Samuel have a lot of banter between the pair and both feel like there is something more between them. On the train Samuel meets a young woman, Miranda and they fall into easy conversation which ends when they arrive in Rome but Miranda invites him to her father’s home and Samuel agrees and they way he has been talking to her and thinking about it makes me think they might have an affair or something like that. The novel opens with Samuel getting on a train to go see Elio who is currently living in Rome before he heads off to Paris but he has to cancel their meeting that evening as he is covering for a pianist in Naples. Elio’s father, Samuel also features heavily in this story and I am excited to see what happens with him as I loved him in Call Me By Your Name. I have a feeling that this book is going to go more in depth over what they did with their lives after that summer and in between the snapshots. I wasn’t sure where Aciman was going to go with these characters as we get to see Elio and Oliver’s story in full with some snapshots from the next 20 years after the summer they met.

I loved Call Me By Your Name and I can’t wait to see the movie so I couldn’t wait to jump into Find Me straight after.

Title: Find Me (Call Me By Your Name Book 2) by Andre Aciman

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