emilyburdick's Reviews (389)

*mild spoiler at the end* I've had this book for a very long time, at least a few years, and I started it when I originally got it but I guess I didn't really get it? So I didn't get that far into it. But I picked it back up and I am actually pretty grateful that I waited because although it's a very easy to read book I think I understood it and even related a little more now that I'm older. This whole book was just great honestly and it was real. I love books that feel like they could have been real and the author sat and watched and documented. And that's what this one felt like for me. It was like real people going through real things in their life and figuring out how to deal. [spoiler starts here] The way it ended was good too, it wasn't cliche like "oh he's all fixed up now because he spent a week in psych". Craig acknowledges he will never been "fixed", and in fact you don't get "fixed". You learn to deal and you learn to live. He found his reasons to keep living. And I think lots of people can really relate to that.

SO incredibly cute and addictive! I started the book a few days ago but got too busy to pick it back up. Then tonight I read the remaining 3/4 of it in one sitting..anyways. This book handled a serious issue in a way that allows people who don't deal with it to understand it. I truly enjoyed seeing inside Audrey's mind and it was actually quite eye opening.

I picked up on what was going to happen a little before halfway through and then every time somebody said or did something that was kind of foreshadowing I got SO deep in the feels *tears up* This is the first Nicholas Sparks book I've ever read and I'm glad it was recommended to me. Heart wrenching, but incredibly inspiring up until the final word.