Choosing to read this book was hard, because I knew it was going to devastate me, and I was right. But it was so worth it. This book was just wonderfully beautiful, a deeply sad but honest look at loneliness, love, and grief. Anna and Weston were fully realized people to me, and I recognized pieces of them in both myself and in others that I’ve known. Ashley Schumacher is exceptionally gifted at not only being able to capture the beauty of a first love, but also how someone can feel alone if they are surrounded by people, how finding someone who understands you completely is a special form of magic, and how loss can change us as we try to live with the grief. There’s also an added bonus of this book featuring band kids, a world I saw marginally as a choir kid in high school, and it brings not only a levity to the book but also gives it another way of feeling more like a true story.

I thought I knew this from reading Amelia Unabridged, but Full Flight solidified it: I will gladly let Ashley Schumacher devastate me with any beautiful words she chooses to put into the world!

Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!