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Someone Else's Bucket List
by Amy T. Matthews
Honestly, I was not expecting this book to be a 5 star read. The first few chapters were depressing as hell, but the book made me cry, twice, and any book that evokes that kind of emotion from me is always 5 stars.
Bree is an Instagram influencer who dies of cancer. A few months after her death an Instagram video shows up on her account that she had scheduled. In it she says that she’d been ticking off 100 items from her bucket list and she had 6 left that she wanted her sister Jodie to finish for her. And one of her sponsors (a small airline company owned by a millionaire) will help her complete it and pay off Bree’s medical bills if she does. Jodie, of course, doesn’t have much of a social life. She works mad hours to help pay off Bree’s medical bills and hangs out with Bree’s best friend, Claudia. Thus begins Jodie’s madcap adventure to finish off the bucket list, which is all posted on Bree’s Instagram page.
I thought this was just going to be another book about a lonely girl who finds out life is worth living after doing something she would never have done on her own. And yes, it was, but it was also a book about how grief affects people in different ways, how the way people see you may not be the way you see yourself, how taking a chance on something you would’ve never thought to do on your own makes you feel.
This is a book I checked out from the library, but it is definitely a book I would buy and own. That’s definitely high praise.
Bree is an Instagram influencer who dies of cancer. A few months after her death an Instagram video shows up on her account that she had scheduled. In it she says that she’d been ticking off 100 items from her bucket list and she had 6 left that she wanted her sister Jodie to finish for her. And one of her sponsors (a small airline company owned by a millionaire) will help her complete it and pay off Bree’s medical bills if she does. Jodie, of course, doesn’t have much of a social life. She works mad hours to help pay off Bree’s medical bills and hangs out with Bree’s best friend, Claudia. Thus begins Jodie’s madcap adventure to finish off the bucket list, which is all posted on Bree’s Instagram page.
I thought this was just going to be another book about a lonely girl who finds out life is worth living after doing something she would never have done on her own. And yes, it was, but it was also a book about how grief affects people in different ways, how the way people see you may not be the way you see yourself, how taking a chance on something you would’ve never thought to do on your own makes you feel.
This is a book I checked out from the library, but it is definitely a book I would buy and own. That’s definitely high praise.