Because You'll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas

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Because You'll Never Meet Me
Cover of Because You'll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas
Author(s) Leah Thomas
Published 02. July 2015
Publisher Bloomsbury
Genre(s) Contemporary fiction
Age group Young adult


Because You'll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas is a story about Ollie, who is deadly allergic to electricity, and Moritz, who needs a pacemaker to survive. For that reason they can never meet each other. Through writing each other letters they unravel how they are connected and how to manage the struggles they face in their private lives.

Trigger Warnings

Explicitly shown or talked about:

  • Ableism
  • Animal Death
  • Blindness
  • Being paralyzed
  • Body horror
  • Broken spine
  • Bullying
  • Cancer
  • Child abuse (non-sexual)
  • Childbirth
  • Choking
  • Death
  • Disabilities
  • Epilepsy & seizures
  • Experiments on humans
  • F-Slur (probably not reclaimed by the author)
  • Hospital scene
  • Life-threatening weight loss
  • Manic depression
  • Mental illness
  • Mood disorder
  • Muteness
  • Pacemaker
  • Panic attack (implied)
  • Physical abuse
  • R-Slur (probably not reclaimed by the author)
  • Victim blaming (of a bullying victim)

Medium often:

  • Animal abuse
  • Being an orphan
  • Cigarettes
  • Drowning
  • Homophobia
  • Needles
  • Pee, vomit and poop

Only mentioned:

  • Alcohol
  • Alcoholism
  • Borderline personality disorder
  • Burning a person
  • Cutting a person open
  • Guns
  • Incest
  • Narcolepsy
  • Nuclear explosion
  • Poisoning
  • Pregnancy
  • Psychiatrist
  • Schizophrenia
  • Suicide

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