Review: Learning what your choices in Life will bring
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2013
**ARC**Willow is a girl who has lost her father and not so long after she has to relocate to an Island off of Maine with her family.  She is tired of feeling like she has lost herself. Not realizing that by trying to come out of her shell she will run into a whole lot of problems that she tries hiding from her mom.Willow has to take a ferry to Portland every morning for school. She hates having to sit on the cold boat waiting to take her to place she hates even more. She makes friends with a few people and quickly learns that the people she thought were her friends may just not really be, and those people that her new friends make fun of, actually become her friends in the end.Michael is a mystery to Willow. He always seems to be sick and the kids make fun of him. Willow wants to know who the real Michael is and she will do whatever it takes to find out. Willow is not prepared for what she has learned about him. They become close friends via internet and she loves the little poems he types daily for inspiration. Knowing that she is starting to have feelings for Michael she is not sure what to do from there.Tessa is the popular girl in school who is known to most of the girls as the school whore. It is no secret that Tessa is a party girl and will do whatever it takes to attend the most prominent parties. Tessa for some reason has taken a liking to Willow, and Willow being curious as to what the kids of the Island do for fun, she starts to attend these parties and gatherings with Tessa, making her friends turn their backs on her.Throughout this book we read about how Willow makes many poor choices during these  situations and the outcome of what happens if you keep lying. Sooner or later those lies become too much to bare and keep straight and eventually the truth will come out.