Written entirely in letters, from the point of view of two teenage boys, one in the States and one in Germany, Because You’ll Never Meet Me tells the story of two people who can never meet. Moritz has a pacemaker, and Ollie is allergic to electricity, so meeting Moritz would kill him. While the story plays with their emotional connection and has a great twist along the way, the real appeal of this book is the relationship between the two boys as they go through their very heightened and stressful adolescence. Their growing friendship is realistic and vital, and it’s really great to see such an interesting friendship as the focus of the novel.

Isobel Moore