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aiaviles's review against another edition
4.0
Not a huge fan of cancer books. When I started reading this I was a little skeptical at first. Then I started to dislike the main character to the point of frustration. Like, who makes a teenage girl with cancer so mean!! I really enjoyed the non-linear storytelling, it really gave this story an interesting kick. In the end, I cried because I like the build-up for a soft ending. It did leave me wanting more. It felt kind of rushed at the end, but I can live with that.
kielirose's review against another edition
4.0
at first I did not like this book.
and I did not like it until around page 300
and I did not like it until around page 300
clgreads's review
2.0
I hope that if I'm ever faced with a terminal diagnosis that I don't become a petty bitch and use people solely for my sick benefit. I'd choose a different word but there isn't one for Alice.
sarakday's review against another edition
3.0
I always enjoy a YA author who offers up an unlikable girl protagonist, and Alice is definitely that. Really, the whole premise is pretty appealing to me. But the book starts to spin its wheels in the middle and doesn't seem to know how to wrap up its own threads, so the conclusion is a bit abrupt and unsatisfying.
ebralz's review against another edition
2.0
There was a lot of good detail leading up to the climax, but then unfortunately that was rushed and so was the ending. Easy, quick read and tells the point from both a female and male.
katred3's review against another edition
Pacing was too slow. Main charecters were shallow. No real growth.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Cancer, Infidelity, and Terminal illness
Minor: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Suicidal thoughts
paulina1996's review against another edition
3.0
First thoughts after I finished this book? Finally! This book was dragging for so long I was losing my patience with it.
Alice and Harvey have been friends since they were children but going to high school they drifted apart with different social statuses, not really talking to each other until Alice is diagnosed with leukaemia. For a year and a half, Harvey has been there by her side during the good and the bad days falling more and more in love with her as her life clock begins to run out. But Alice goes into remission; becoming the miracle patient who will live. Now that she gets to live her, relationship with Harvey ends.
See this annoys me! The fact that she could only love Harvey while she was dying and knew she wouldn’t be with him forever. How stupid is that? I get the fact that she might be scared of commitment but that doesn’t mean you have to break his poor heart after he finds out the love of his life, the only girl he has ever loved will live but doesn’t want to be with him. Ugh. Not only this but Alice is a complete bitch to everyone but yet she gets this amazing guy to fall for her, and she does get what’s coming to her.
“I knew how to die. It was the living that scared me.”
I loved how the book was arranged. The “Now” and “Then”. Alice was completely different while she was going through chemo and was dying. Later on she turned into a shallow girl who decided she was too good for Harvey and didn’t want him anymore which I guess was how she was before her diagnosis. I guess it was good to see both sides of her but I was hoping this book was going to be about how she realises she gets a second chance at life and decides to change her life around and become a better person.
“That girl in the case was dead. And that girl in the case was me”
I think I liked Alice about 10 percent of the book and that was at the very start and while she was taking her revenge on her ex-boyfriend Luke and the girl he was cheating with. Harvey is a sweet naïve guy and I couldn’t decide whether or not I liked him. At times he was the sweetest guy that was caring for a girl that was slowly dying and at other times he was a total fool for letting her walk all over him!
This book wasn’t anything I expected. I was hoping this would make me cry, or laugh or even feel something but there was nothing. This book was below ordinary. It was annoying. Even the very end annoyed me. I hate cliff hangers!
All quotes have been taken from an uncorrected proof and may be subject to change
Alice and Harvey have been friends since they were children but going to high school they drifted apart with different social statuses, not really talking to each other until Alice is diagnosed with leukaemia. For a year and a half, Harvey has been there by her side during the good and the bad days falling more and more in love with her as her life clock begins to run out. But Alice goes into remission; becoming the miracle patient who will live. Now that she gets to live her, relationship with Harvey ends.
See this annoys me! The fact that she could only love Harvey while she was dying and knew she wouldn’t be with him forever. How stupid is that? I get the fact that she might be scared of commitment but that doesn’t mean you have to break his poor heart after he finds out the love of his life, the only girl he has ever loved will live but doesn’t want to be with him. Ugh. Not only this but Alice is a complete bitch to everyone but yet she gets this amazing guy to fall for her, and she does get what’s coming to her.
“I knew how to die. It was the living that scared me.”
I loved how the book was arranged. The “Now” and “Then”. Alice was completely different while she was going through chemo and was dying. Later on she turned into a shallow girl who decided she was too good for Harvey and didn’t want him anymore which I guess was how she was before her diagnosis. I guess it was good to see both sides of her but I was hoping this book was going to be about how she realises she gets a second chance at life and decides to change her life around and become a better person.
“That girl in the case was dead. And that girl in the case was me”
I think I liked Alice about 10 percent of the book and that was at the very start and while she was taking her revenge on her ex-boyfriend Luke and the girl he was cheating with. Harvey is a sweet naïve guy and I couldn’t decide whether or not I liked him. At times he was the sweetest guy that was caring for a girl that was slowly dying and at other times he was a total fool for letting her walk all over him!
This book wasn’t anything I expected. I was hoping this would make me cry, or laugh or even feel something but there was nothing. This book was below ordinary. It was annoying. Even the very end annoyed me. I hate cliff hangers!
All quotes have been taken from an uncorrected proof and may be subject to change
marlanaperry77's review against another edition
2.0
Two and a half stars.
It's a quick and mindless read which is nice when that's what you're looking for, but the main character is so unlikable and the drama surrounding her is so contrived that it gets annoying after the first 100 pages.
It's a quick and mindless read which is nice when that's what you're looking for, but the main character is so unlikable and the drama surrounding her is so contrived that it gets annoying after the first 100 pages.
sariedee's review against another edition
4.0
I saw this on twitter when Epic Reads posted a book birthday pic yesterday. The title drew my attention, as did the synopsis. I really enjoyed this book. You'll hate Alice sometimes, but I realized that is what made this book great. She isn't a Mary Sue. She's unapologetically who she is, and she's a 16 year old with a death sentence. I know some won't like the dualing pov's also set in two different time periods, and it can be a little confusing. But all in all I enjoyed it.