A review by megan_wynne
The Brilliant Light of Amber Sunrise by Matthew Crow

1.0

I'm not one to usually leave reviews but I felt very passionately about my one star for this book. First of all, the inside cover summary basically alludes to what happens to Amber at the end so the whole book you kind of know what's going to happen to her.. So no element of surprise at all. Also this book is about how Francis gets cancer- specifically Leukemia- and falls in love with Amber who is also sick. But the biggest thing that bothered me was how little the author did to actually write about the more specifics of dealing with and being treated for Leukemia. I've had Leukemia twice now and it just makes me mad how little the author researched it... Like how are you going to make your book based on the sickness and then not even write about the realities of it?? A book that is similar is Zac and Mia by A. J. Betts and this author did an amazing job of writing about the realities of dealing with cancer as a teenager. Matthew Crow only brushed the surface on a story that he could have and should have dug deeper into. Also Francis and Amber's relationship was completely unrealistic. I felt like one second they met and the next they're dating and in love? There was just so much that went wrong in this book and truthfully I have no idea how it even got published.