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What can I say about Counting Daisies other than to say that Nicola Haken has done it again.

With every one of her books I tell myself that there is no way she can outdo her last book, but each and every time she proves me wrong.

She has blown me away with Counting Daisies. It is a gutwrenching, but heartbreakingly beautiful story of love and loss, second chances.

She has dealt with issues like mental illness in the past, and with Counting Daisies she deals with addiction. My goodness does she deal with it. I have never been an addict (unless you count books and chocolate) but the way she gets into the psyche of Dylan and his addiction, you just know that she has researched addiction well. - I swear I was reading through tears for so much of this story.

Cameron and Dylan's story is not a pretty one. It is not hearts and flowers. It is love at its best and worst.

Best friends as teenagers, separated for years, but never forgetting each other. When they reconnect I hoped that they could become that again, that the could overcome all the hurdles placed before them. Could become more than they were before.

There was nothing I could fault with Counting Daisies. The story, the writing, the emotions. I loved every deep,dark hole that this story took us. It is raw, gritty, and so, so emotional. And I didn't want Dylan and Cameron's story to end.

Hopefully, one day, we will get a story of some of the secondary characters in this book (cough cough Paul and Derek cough cough) and Dylan and Cam will make an appearance.

Please Ms Haken, make this happen for me?