This was not your typical YA Romance. First of all, there actually was very little romance, at least not that wasn't one sided. This story shows how not all relationships are meant to be. How you can fall for someone and have them not fall for you back, even when it seems like they have. How we can sometimes project the way we want people to be onto them, instead of accepting them the way they are. It also shows a lot about grief and how differently it affects different people.

Another thing that was very prevalent in this book was the support of good friends, and how the true friends, while always supporting you, will also tell you when you're not acting right, or when you're making bad decisions. It's so important to have these friends in our lives. Friends that don't judge, but will also set you straight when you are doing something that's not good for you.

The ending is not what you'd typically expect from a novel in this genre, but it was perfect for the story told here. I'm very glad to have received this book as a Christmas Gift and get the opportunity to read it.