Review: sweet love story that fills you with hope and leaves you with a smile
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 9, 2013
First of all this book is giving proceeds to a great cause, so that in itself deserves an extra gold star!This story had it all, I laughed, I cried, I fell in love and felt heart brake. Its a wonderful story of falling in love and finding ones soul mate.Harper has lost her mom, the shell of the women left isn't her mother, not really. Her dad is an absent parent, forced to work non stop to put food on the table and the care for his wife and love of his life. She's forced to be a mother/father/sister to her younger brother Ben. In a new house, in a new town, half way across the country she makes a best friend in her estranged cousin.April is laugh out loud funny, she brings the light heartedness to a sad story."..Benny, jumps out from the living room and shoots April in the cheek with a Nerf dart. I gasp and she of course screams the eff bomb, leaving her and Benny glaring at one another. It would be hilarious if I don't actually believe April would probably rip his ten year old balls from his body."Not only has seventeen year old Harper been dealt a sh!tty hand to begin with, but now she has cancer, aggressive cancer that the doctors tell her to prepare for death within a couple months. She has come to except her fate and the weekend before her first treatment she meets Vaun.Vaun is going through a lot emotionally, he just lost his mom to cancer a couple months beforehand, had to move in with his dad, stepmom and stepbrother. He uses girls in excess to make his pain go away. When they meet its an immediate attraction, but its more then that, they are drawn to each other."Friendship is the single soul dwelling in two bodies.- Aristotle"Harper is afraid Vaun cant handle her sickness. She try's to keep him at arms length believing that if cant get to close when she dies he will be able to move on."But we don't have a luxury of time. We have a ticking of a clock and an undeniable need for each other that's so unfathomable and so unfair."This story is beautifully written, a sweet love story that fills you with hope and leaves you with a smile.