Maybe this book would have had more impact if I hadn't read it after [b:Sunrise Over Fallujah|2205226|Sunrise Over Fallujah|Walter Dean Myers|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255741419s/2205226.jpg|2210990], [b:The Ask and the Answer|6043849|The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)|Patrick Ness|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233015899s/6043849.jpg|6219422], and [b:Stitches A Memoir|6407014|Stitches A Memoir|David Small|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255727610s/6407014.jpg|6595917]. For a book about cancer, I was oddly unaffected by it. It could also be the note format, which normally I like but in this situation it was not a good choice.