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Bianca
Bianca
I just finished reading ‘The Last 10 Years’ as I saw this book was chosen for our book club. I was taken aback by how this book made me feel. A deep heartache and also a positive sense of understanding of the impact of mortality on our lives and our perspective on time. The themes explored in this book are powerful. But also very realistic.

The way the book progresses was another point of note. I saw many reviews criticizing the book for being too slow, but I think that the slow progression of the book is one of the things that highlights to us how life can slip away from us before we even notice it. The prose is not overly beautiful but it lingers with you long after you have read it. This is a deeply emotional book and is best suited to readers of deeply introspective, character focused fiction.
2025-12-06
Nora
Nora
I read this book after it started trending on BookTok, and most of the reviews for it are tear-jerker-type reviews, but I actually found it kind of funny at times as well. The protagonist’s humor is just really witty and sort of dry, but in the middle of all this kind of dark reality, it just makes the emotional parts of the book hit even harder. I liked this. It was kind of a dividing-line type of book for me, though – a lot of readers had a hard time with the non-linear structure of it, and it kind of read to me like memory, which is all sort of fragmented and yet super vivid at the same time. I would give it 4/5 stars, except that there was one subplot that kind of got rushed at the end.
2025-12-06
Gavin
Gavin
‘The Last 10 Years’ by borrowed_from_library was a read-in-one-sitting kind of book – and I can see why some people would call it sentimental but to me it was profound. A funny and heart-breaky read, it reminded me of ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ but was so much more realistic. It’s had me staring at my ceiling for 20 minutes and questioning my own life choices. It’s a story that’ll stick with you long after you’ve read the final page.
2025-12-09
Weston
Weston
A friend lent me ‘The Last 10 Years’ by Sarahad Ostman with a warning: “Bring tissues”. As predicted the book was heart wrenching, raw and very honest about life and death and trying to mend relationships before it’s too late. The critics say it’s very emotionally deep but I don’t feel this has been explored enough with the supporting characters such as the protagonists estranged sister, whose subtle storyline added another layer to the novel. The book isn’t perfect as there are some parts where the story jumps on quickly but these human faults make the novel and the themes even better.
2025-12-10
Carter
Carter
This book has wrecked me. ‘The Last 10 Years’ is more than another terminal illness story of love, it’s a deep exploration of the unassuming regret and appreciation of life. Although I’ve seen people compare this to ‘Me Before You’ it’s a vastly different read focusing more on self-forgiveness rather than romance. Most reviews of this book either love it or find it too heavy to handle but that’s basically life too so grab a box of tissues and dive in.
2025-12-11

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