Review: I cannot begin to say how much I enjoyed this book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2013
I should warn you, I am a sucker for a really cute romance.  And this is a really nice romance.If I could sum it up in one sentence it is very much like a Korean soap opera.  There are enough depth in the story to keep you reading all the way through.The first time I read this book I wasn't sure how to take the beginning.  As the main character is plunged into darkness-literally goes blind-and morns the loss of her mom I couldn't wrap  my mind around the ridiculous funeral.  I loved that part and laughed out loud the second time I read the book.  (Ok, so I've read the book more than twice in the short time that I have had it.)  I love how realistically flawed the characters are and the depth in which you get to know each of the people around the main character.  I really like that all the characters she develops you grow to love-or not.  Each one you see some degree of change in over the story.I especially loved how she developed a great story around honesty.  I get so tired of reading books based on the failure to communicate in general.  There are some big communication issues but they deal with them in a real way, not the sitcom way that is so common in novels. I felt each triumph and each heartbreak.  Especially love how she tells you the history of the main characters slowly, so you get to know them/understand them like it could happen in real life.I don't think this book could really be made into a movie, simply because a lot of it's charm is in the way she sees the world, she is blind.  That is hard to translate into movies.  She describes "the grease in a voice" when some slimey guys ask her out without knowing anything about what the man looks like otherwise.  It is really cool by itself to experience the blindness with her as she perceives the world around her.  And I love the main character's sense of humor.  It is so nice to not get bogged down in a character's wallowing, even when they have a great reason to wallow.  No, especially when they have a great reason to wallow in their own self pity.This is a great read.  It is both  funny and heartbreaking but ends well.  It is an LDS novel, which makes it a clean read.  If you are not LDS you might not understand some terminology:  A ward is a congregation.  Sometimes wards are formed of all single adults called the single adult ward.  And Chastity is very important.Overall I LOVED this book.  so much that I read the next book by this author as soon as it was available.  I liked that one as well.  but not as much as this one.