ARC received for an honest review

Beware - Wish Me Tomorrow revolves a lot around cancer and cancer patients, so it is an emotional read. But if you take the time to read it, you will come out smiling, even though you will run the whole gamut of emotions, from happy to sad ,to rage to despair.

Christie is a nurse and grief counsellor for cancer patients and survivors. She has also been touched by cancer, though she has never really dealt properly with her emotional struggles. But she is the eternal optimist and tries to instill the same in her patients.

Eli is a cancer survivor, single parent and ever the realist. Though he is in remission he knows that the cancer cloud will forever hang over him. He does not deal with the cancer issue with his kids very well at all, and he has closed his heart to love.

The stories of both Christie and Eli are so realistic. Everyone deals will cancer in a different way, and both of theirs feel believable. You can either have the hope it will never return, or have the dread it will and close yourself off to the world.

Eli's kids Becca and Tommy are heartbreakers. Becca doesn't understand why her dad won't talk to them about the cancer, and is pulling away. Tommy is younger and all he wants is his dad to be like he was before he was sick.

We have all been touched by cancer in some way, whether it personal, family, friends or colleagues, and we all have all dealt with it in our own way.

This book is an emotional rollercoaster.

I laughed, I cried, I wanted to slap people, I wanted to hug people. I wanted to get Eli, Christie, Becca and Tommy in one big group hug and squeeze the heck out of them.

Wish Me Tomorrow is a book about love and loss, sadness and happiness, guilt and acceptance, and more than anything it is about knowing that your feelings are never wrong, they are what they are. It was nice to read a romance for romance's sake for a chance, and it not full of steamy hot sex scenes (not that I am complaining about them either!!)

Karen Rock has written and emotionally charged book,, full of "normal" people in situations that any of us could find ourselves in at any time.

Give this a read, you will not be disappointed.