Review: My First Book Tears
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2014
Mr. Daniels and Ashlyn did it, they made me actually drop a few tears while reading this book.  Well I guess Brittainy Cherry did, either way this is the first time.  Sure I have welled up before, but I will have to admit, this was a few strays actually rolling down my cheeks.Ashlyn has suffered quite a bit of loss in her nineteen years, more than a young person should.  She is going to start her senior year at a new school, in a new house, with a new family.  To say things aren't easy for her at the moment is an understatement.  She isn't an outgoing girl, happier with her books and writings.  Ashlyn is a closet Shakespeare geek, a romantic to the core, looking to survive another day.Daniel has suffered as well.  After back to back tragedies, this guy just needs to figure out which way is up.  He has his teaching and his music to keep him going, but soon finds there is somebody out there built just for him.  He is a old, romantic soul, writing music about love lost and found, about life and death.  Something he knows too little and too much about.Oh this book!!  I am going to skate on the periphery of the story line because there is just so much going on.  Not only with Ashlyn and Daniel, but with the friends and family that surrounds each of them.  You go through every emotion possible while reading this book, not knowing where it is going to take you from one minute to the next.This is an epic love story, with a bit of a Shakespeare lesson thrown in.  I feel the student/teacher romance is a tricky genre as you don't want to creep out your reader, while on the other hand, you don't want to bore them either.  Loving Mr. Daniels is a perfect balance, mixed with other fantastic characters surrounding the leads to keep the story interesting.  The book was well written, not a cliffhanger and has a beautiful epilogue as well.  It may be my new favorite read of 2014.