I seem to be going against the grain here, but I loved Find Me. I waited a year to read it, and I'm so glad I did. I was not emotionally prepared to cry my way through the last 40 pages. It took me a little while to figure out who our initial narrator was, but once everything fell into place, it fell hard. Whilst Aciman tends to fall prey to the much older partner to the younger partner, I didn't find it too uncomfortable to read. Perhaps that's because this was a lot more obvious that the younger partners are adults, and not barely out of puberty. The book is split into four different parts, one following Sam, two following Elio, and one following Oliver. Each part acts as it's own short story, whilst also progressing the plot. If you want to read the books with the plot in chronological order, I've found it would go: parts 1 and 2 of CMBYN, parts 1 and 2 of Find Me, part 3 of CMBYN, then parts 3 and 4 of Find Me. You get to learn a lot more about Elio after his summer romance with Oliver, and see as he's turned from a hormone-adled teenager, to a mature young man, a lot more certain in his sexuality. You see the affect Elio had on Oliver throughout his part, especially after Elio's visit to Oliver's campus at the end of CMBYN. Find Me references not only the book, but the film which was where my emotions started. I knew I'd be emotional - I was listening to the CMBYN soundtrack as I reread CMBYN, and read this for the first time. The aftermath of love, the merging of the past and present, and the hopeful anticipation things would be okay after the end of CMBYN. One of my favourite moments of the book references the turning point of the film, and I think it represented the turning point of this book, placed perfectly to get the emotions started. I wasn't lying at the start of my review when I said I cried for the last 40 pages. I was emotionally wrecked. I highly recommend this book for the sentimental love story reader, or, if, like me, you were a fan of CYMBN. I find it the better of the two books, although I would say read the first book before this one. Just as a refresher on the characters and what happens. Be prepared to have tissues, and whatever you do, do not rewatch CMBYN immediately after finishing this book unless you feel like being emotionally wrecked. As an average reader, reading this took me about 6 hours. I enjoyed listening to CMBYN's soundtrack whilst reading, but it was immersive in the moments I wasn't listening to it too.

I found it hard to start. But once I had established the narrators I enjoyed this tremendously. Thank-you for this wonderful follow up to Call me by your name

Ok, so I read this right after call me by your name.I must admit I did find it a bit jarring as the plot is split into three, the first part being from the point of view of Sami, Elio's father, then Oliver and Elio (I could have this the wrong way round...) and how there stories interweave. I liked how we are able to revisit Oliver and Elio at different points in their lives as well as how you can tell that despite the different relationships the pair have been in throughout the years, their first and only true love will always be each other. I found Sami's story to be the weaker out of the three, as he leaves his wife and meets a girl on the train, who is considerably younger than him and they have a passionate affair, which I don't have a problem with, but I found the writing from his point of view to not be as much of a hook as Elio and Oliver's stories. The ending was absolutely everything I hoped it would be, and true to form, Andre Aciman's writing is as beautiful as it was in the first one, effortlessly evoking landscape, feelings and characters. It's pretty impressive considering how much of a gap there is between Call Me By Your Name and it's sequel! Overall, very good, but the reason I gave it four stars is I didn't quite enjoy Sami's story as much as Oliver and Elio's.

I have really struggled to enjoy this. Hard to get into. Unclear from the start where its going. Rome is a fascinating place but really I think one of the most boring places under the surface. It’s not call me by your name but I wasn’t expecting that, but I was expecting to get back into that story a little. I heard negative things about the book and sadly they were true.

It’s not a sequel to ‘Call Me By Your Name’ in the way I was expecting and if you’re only interested in reading more about Oliver and Elio you will probably be disappointed. Oliver doesn’t appear at all until the final third of the book and the first section doesn’t feature Elio at all, just his father. The main themes are the relationship between fathers and their children; mid life crises and older men having relationships with much younger men and women. If you’re interested in what Elio and Oliver are up to then you can skip the first third of the book because neither of them appear or are mentioned at all beyond in passing. The first half of the book focuses mainly on Elio’s father who meets a woman called Miranda, who is half his age (this point really gets hammered home), on a train. Miranda is one of the most unrealistic female characters I’ve ever come across. She’s clearly a male fantasy character. Her beauty is heavily emphasised and of course there is some “darkness” about her no doubt intending to make her seem more of a rounded character (there’s also some weird talk about incest with her brother which serves no real purpose at all). I think their relationship is supposed to read as an epic romance and an instant deep connection between two people, but honestly it just comes off as creepy. No woman I know, on being asked ‘why so glum?’ by a stranger on a train - especially a man - would respond in the way she does. That is to take that man to meet her father; cook him dinner; sleep with him and declare she wants to have his baby - all in the space of a few hours (yes really. It’s less than one full day). Elio’s section is more enjoyable. It focuses on his relationship with another older man, Michel. I would have liked to see this story developed into a full novel in itself, but then the story skips ahead and suddenly he’s back in his childhood home with Oliver and Michel is never mentioned again. The whole thing feels very disjointed.