New Review! All of Me by Emily Duvall 4.5 Cranky Stars

All of Me by Emily Duvall
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4.5 Cranky Stars


Maren Cole is an autistic adult. Her life is basically planned down to the minute by her sister Libby and her overbearing parents who live out of state. She can’t read social situations and is known to have meltdowns when things become too much, yet she lives on her own and maintains a very good job. She’s obsessed with maps and streets and plotting out her travels all around Arlington Virginia. She has no plans to ever leave and is complacent in her life. Then one day she meets Caleb Allen. He is tasked with getting her to a function for Libby and sparks fly. She is a new world and it’s overwhelming. She doesn’t realize that while she’s trying to navigate matters of the heart her past is about to collide with her present and shake everything up.


Caleb Allen is married to his job. Being the best lawyer he can be and making partner is literally his only goal in life. He’s suffered tragedy in his life, and it has dictated a lot of how he currently deals with relationships. His current relationship is on its way out and when he meets Maren he knows she’s different but he can’t help himself. Ending things with Sara leaves him open to explore things with Maren yet he’s also learning how to care for someone with Autism. When the case of the century that will finally help him reach his goal lands on his lap he doesn’t know that she is a very key part to this case and it will flip everything upside down.


All of Me was a good read. I can honestly say I’ve read maybe one other book about a person on the spectrum trying to make it in the world and trying to have a relationship. Maren is quirky and I know that’s probably the wrong word to use but I liked her. She was flat out honest and her thoughts were endearing. Caleb Allen grows in this book. At first you don’t like him but then you realize he is just a man with a broken past and you want to just hug him. This book was a very real look at the life of someone on the spectrum and that they are just people too. They may love differently and look at life in a literal sense but they are worthy and capable of love. All of Me gives you hope and understanding and love sweet love.


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