Ophelia After All is not a romance. It’s a story about friendship and first love and family, both found and blood. It’s big feelings and allowing yourself to be open to them. It’s the story of a girl realizing that sometimes we aren’t who other people think we are, but sometimes we aren’t even who WE thought we were, either.

I found myself on the verge of tears several times, and identified with so much of what Ophelia was experiencing. Goodness, this is the kind of story I wish was around when I was in high school. The writing was expressive and the characters were really well developed, and once I started I didn’t want to put it down.