read it!

i’m not quite sure what to say about this book but those two words. i’ll try, though.

this is a book unlike i’ve ever read before. i knew within six pages that it was going to be special and that i was going to love it. it took me a couple of days to read because the premise promises that there is no way that the book isn’t going to break your heart. i spent, i think, over twenty-four hours not reading the book because i didn’t want to be hurt. i just didn’t want the happy to end.

and, really, that’s what the book is about. not wanting the happy to end. not wanting a friend’s life to end. i don’t want to talk much on this because i don’t want to spoil anything about how that point came to be and all, but it’s a book that balances happy and sad very well. it also acknowledges that you can be both happy and sad at the same time.

i also really love that this book very much includes a found family. i think that’s probably one of my favorite tropes. characters that aren’t related that just end up becoming the best part of your life.

i noticed tonight that books give me goosebumps more than make me cry when i’m really touched by them. if you saw my stories right after i finished, i had major goosebumps.

i can’t think of anything in this book that i would change, so it gets five stars easily. i’d recommend it to just about anyone, especially since it’s very light on triggers, in my opinion.

tw: death