Thanks to Putnam for the copy of this ARC.

"I don't want us to be sad. Or bitter, or angry. I want to celebrate until it is over. And, when I'm gone, I want you to celebrate again because it happened."

A college friend group decides to have "living funerals" after one of their pack, Alec, passes away suddenly before graduation. Each member of the friend group can invoke the pact when they're feeling like they aren't in the best place in life and could need a little encouragement, at any time during their lives.

While this friend group is quite chaotic, this was a really heartwarming story about being there for your friends, even years later, the various versions of ourselves we are as we go through life, and celebrating life as it comes. I definitely cried at the end - darn you Jordan and Jordy! This is a book I'll be thinking about for awhile - how we can light the candle of others to keep them going when times are tough, and how we can't hold things too tightly because really, we just can't control the big things that life will throw at us.

Read if you like:
- Friend groups
- Heartwarming stories
- The idea of "living funerals"
- Themes that will stick with you for awhile