Emily Nguyen

Reading this, broke my heart, and left it in tattered pieces. It should not be in the romance section, it should have it's very own second - grief- I have never cried so much over a book. In part it's probably because I have seen and known so many people to die around me. I was 15 when my class mate was in a two week long coma and nearly died in a rainy car accident, I was 16 when the first kid in my class died in a highway accident coming home from six flags she was the best friend of the first girl that had been in a coma, at 19 my co-work caught covid but what killed him was the pneumonia he caught after it, then another on a motorcycle a few months later and then I was 20 when I found out my ex-boyfriend died of an aneurysm in his sleep. he was my first boyfriend.. I was 23 when yet another one of class mates died, only a week before she graduated with a bachelors degree. She was light if a person could be described as light. Death is final and it is cruel and leaves me perplexed and confused and down right frightened. I read the book and wept, I felt it in my bones the sort of grief which Autumn struggled with. Everything can go so right and then so wrong. It's messy and difficult, life is that way and this book describes it beautifully, tragically, and powerfully. if there was ever a book that could and should have a warning label, it would be this one. So as I would love to recommend it to anyone who likes to read, I wouldn't and would recommend it to someone who is prepared to demolish it in a single day, because any longer and it would be torture. But other wise, great book.