This book was well done. The characters, all of them, were super flushed out. I feel as if I know them, their feelings and reactions. And I also appreacite everything the author did making this story real. There are so many times when things could have been written so much more cliched, but she avoided it. The love story didn't set in too fast, the decisions weren't changed becuase of it, and I felt like everything that happened was natural. Something that I believe in this kind of story is hard to do. I was emotionally involved, cried at the end, but appreciated it even more because it read with both sadness and hope at the same time. Bravo.