Review: One of the best books of 2013
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2013
Wow, I've had this book for awhile and I can't understand why I haven't picked it up sooner. Could be because I had preconceived ideas about it because I don't like the cover. But it's so, so awesome. And painful. And heart-wrenching, and so sad and so utterly beautiful.In the first few pages you get to meet Tally and Holly and with their sisterly bickering you fall instantly in love with both of them. Then tragedy strikes and lives change forever. It hit's you hard, even after just a few pages.Tally's pain and grief is so incredibly real and it hurts, just reading about it hurts. I love this girl who turns in to a brilliant, strong woman. She stand tall even if a part dies a little every day and she plows through and dances, because it's the only way she knows how to cope. Throw in Linc in the mix and and I am in serious awe of this girl, heartbreak friggin' hurts!Life never turns out how she planned and fate seems to have a grudge against her because he surely never helps out.Linc and Tally struggles with similar fundamental issues, falling, failing and losing, but Linc got over his a lot earlier in the book. I guess it should be that way since he's got a couple of years on my favorite girl. While Linc still struggles with himself, Tally and baseball he's an all around good guy. He's not the hot, tattooed bad boy, he's more of mother-in-law's-dream-come-true kind of guy. He was a lot easier to like and love for his genuineness and honest struggles. I think all women secretly loves to read and dream about a hot, broken man we can "fix" or an alpha-male, but we'd much rather go for a guy like Linc. Which is why I love him, he's real.I often comment of the writing on a book because it can really make or break a book, and I often say that the books I've like has great writing. But I don't think anything I've read can compare to Katherine Owens. It's so heartfelt and so true. She doesn't sugarcoat the bad or get overly excited with the good, she tell's it how it is and I truly respect her for that.This is a book about loss and love, and then loss again, and it's filled with so much pain and anguish it physically hurts to read it. But It's one of the best books of 2013.