Review: Love this book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2014
I am the formatter *because* I was a fan, not vice versa. Lauren sent the manuscript for me to beta read last year, and I just loved this book. It's got such heart and so many well rounded characters. What really sealed it for me, though, was the very last plot twist, about which I will say nothing more at all.Kate's father has Huntington's Disease, which Kate discovers right after her graduation. As upsetting as this is, she's got the summer to look forward to. She'll be managing her boyfriend's band and alone on the road with said boyfriend. Her virginity, she knows, is about to be history.Only, nothing works out as it should. This book tracks all the cruelties of life, with its random upsides, such as a friend willing to take her away from it all for a vacation, and a chance encounter with a quirky guy smoking and jogging around the genetics counselor's office block. It's the kind of coming of age story that hurts, but is too real to put down, and the ending is one of my favorites of all the books I've ever read.I've read dozens of books since I beta'd The Problem with Crazy, and I still remember it so clearly. We put the format for this one together with love, and are so glad to see it out in the world.