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rachelwrites007's review
5.0
04/16/2018: That description is perfect. Sophie and Peter and Chase and Tabitha and Luna and Josh and the entire cast will steal your heart. This book, like Rachel's debut, deals with intense love, debts, and high school dramallama. It will be perfect for fans of her debut (DUH), but also for fans of [a:Siobhan Vivian|800187|Siobhan Vivian|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1447441386p2/800187.jpg] and [a:Corey Ann Haydu|5414574|Corey Ann Haydu|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1462801584p2/5414574.jpg].
01/06/2018: What a book. Rach's characters never cease to amaze me. <3
I am lucky enough to be Rachel's critique partner and have read many drafts of this book.
It is also dual point of view (I'm sensing a trend here, Rach...) about two best friends, obsession, love, and a kidney transplant. It is ALSO LGBTQIA+!!!! And diverse! The points of view are Alex, a Jewish redhead who is on her school's dance team, who gives her kidney to her BFF/long time crush, Peter (the other POV in this book). This book deals with family and Seattle (again, sensing a theme here), and love. Also bad decisions. SUPER BAD DECISIONS. You should read it in 2019.
01/06/2018: What a book. Rach's characters never cease to amaze me. <3
I am lucky enough to be Rachel's critique partner and have read many drafts of this book.
It is also dual point of view (I'm sensing a trend here, Rach...) about two best friends, obsession, love, and a kidney transplant. It is ALSO LGBTQIA+!!!! And diverse! The points of view are Alex, a Jewish redhead who is on her school's dance team, who gives her kidney to her BFF/long time crush, Peter (the other POV in this book). This book deals with family and Seattle (again, sensing a theme here), and love. Also bad decisions. SUPER BAD DECISIONS. You should read it in 2019.
becsbookshelf's review against another edition
3.0
“Sometimes you hurt, and sometimes you ache, but the worst pain is one you can’t put a name to AJ’s can’t swallow a pill to fix it.”
Sophie has only ever wanted to hang out with her best friend Peter and choreograph. Peter has been on the kidney transplant list as long as she’s know him. When she discovers she’s a match she convinces her parents to go ahead with the operation.
Maybe giving him apart of her will make him fall in love with her the way she sees him. Peter’s life changed dramatically and his post surgery life wasn’t what he expected it to be. Peter identity’s ad Bi and when he meets chase the guitar player he begins to neglect his best friend.
While it gives Sophie more time to focus on dancing the two can see their friendship is slowly growing apart. Peter fears he’ll always owe Sophie and Sophie doesn’t know who she’ll be without him. It’s a story of love, friendships, heartbreak, family, firsts and self discovery.
This has been on my TBR for far too long. The story was beautiful and portrays so many diverse topics including gender, sexual preference, teen pregnancy and religion. I’d l recommend this for late teens and anyone who loves a unique coming of age story.
Sophie has only ever wanted to hang out with her best friend Peter and choreograph. Peter has been on the kidney transplant list as long as she’s know him. When she discovers she’s a match she convinces her parents to go ahead with the operation.
Maybe giving him apart of her will make him fall in love with her the way she sees him. Peter’s life changed dramatically and his post surgery life wasn’t what he expected it to be. Peter identity’s ad Bi and when he meets chase the guitar player he begins to neglect his best friend.
While it gives Sophie more time to focus on dancing the two can see their friendship is slowly growing apart. Peter fears he’ll always owe Sophie and Sophie doesn’t know who she’ll be without him. It’s a story of love, friendships, heartbreak, family, firsts and self discovery.
This has been on my TBR for far too long. The story was beautiful and portrays so many diverse topics including gender, sexual preference, teen pregnancy and religion. I’d l recommend this for late teens and anyone who loves a unique coming of age story.
katelynjaynexx's review against another edition
4.0
Peter and Sophie are best friends, Peter needs a kidney and Sophie would do anything for him. She gives Peter a chance to live a normal life but it creates some unexpected changes in their relationship.
This book is a bit of a roller coaster, it deals with illness, sexuality, religion, identity, love and co-dependant friendships.
Written in dual POV this book was as good as it was frustrating. I felt for Sophie the entire book, she was so eager to do absolutely anything for Peter she couldn’t see how it wasn’t healthy or constructive for her own life. I know this happens but it was frustrating to see she was giving up everything else just because she loves him and they have such a long friendship.
As much as this book is about their friendship and unrequited love it’s also about their individual growth. Whilst some YA books can be rushed this one is not and the characters and stories seemed like real teenagers and real issues they would deal with. I highly recommend this one if you’re into a deeper YA story.
I honestly picked this book up because I adored the cover and was so pleasantly surprised to find such a wonderful book.
This book is a bit of a roller coaster, it deals with illness, sexuality, religion, identity, love and co-dependant friendships.
Written in dual POV this book was as good as it was frustrating. I felt for Sophie the entire book, she was so eager to do absolutely anything for Peter she couldn’t see how it wasn’t healthy or constructive for her own life. I know this happens but it was frustrating to see she was giving up everything else just because she loves him and they have such a long friendship.
As much as this book is about their friendship and unrequited love it’s also about their individual growth. Whilst some YA books can be rushed this one is not and the characters and stories seemed like real teenagers and real issues they would deal with. I highly recommend this one if you’re into a deeper YA story.
I honestly picked this book up because I adored the cover and was so pleasantly surprised to find such a wonderful book.
lilrongal's review
5.0
This book will bring out all the feels. It will break your heart and put it together, break it and mend it again and again. A deep lesson in love and finding oneself, even if that means things need to fall apart to come back together.
Rachel broke my heart over and over with this book and it's beautiful.
Rachel broke my heart over and over with this book and it's beautiful.
mauryneiberg18's review against another edition
4.0
This reads like YA, and is NOT a romance. The subject is serious but not heavy. A real bildungsroman
megatsunami's review
4.0
A book with no villains! I love that in a book. The characters are finely drawn and there's no insta-love or destined-to-be-together tropes here, just some human beings trying to figure out what love and friendship mean. Also, I appreciated that the plot went in different directions that you wouldn't foresee from the first couple of chapters.