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A review by thesustainablebookshelf
The Half-Life of Love by Brianna Bourne
5.0
A story about an alternate reality where everyone seizes once in their life. The seizure marks their halfway point, and the countdown begins to their deathday. Except that Flint "half-lifed" at 8 years old, and now has 11 weeks left to live. He asks his now divorced parents to bring him back to the small town where he was raised -- where he's determined to live as little and as miserably as possible so it won't hurt as much for him to leave or for others to miss him.
Until he meets September, a brilliant student scientist interning at the Half-Life Institute; the hotbed of half-life research determined to find a cure.
What I loved most about this book is that, despite all the talk of death, it centers around life - and that it's always worth living and fighting for. It parallels real life terminal illness in such a surprisingly bright and beautiful way, and can help us attain a new perspective in how we choose to really, really live moving forward. It is more on the YA side, but I absolutely flew right through this.
Until he meets September, a brilliant student scientist interning at the Half-Life Institute; the hotbed of half-life research determined to find a cure.
What I loved most about this book is that, despite all the talk of death, it centers around life - and that it's always worth living and fighting for. It parallels real life terminal illness in such a surprisingly bright and beautiful way, and can help us attain a new perspective in how we choose to really, really live moving forward. It is more on the YA side, but I absolutely flew right through this.