thukpa 's review for:

Zac and Mia by A.J. Betts

4.0

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Inevitable 2 kids with cancer comparison to The Fault in Our Stars, but that's really all there is as far as similarities. The kids' responses to having and living with their cancers was very real and visceral, not sugar coated, and they each had their moments of rock bottom and the times that they helped each other come away from that. My only complaint is that the audiobook (the form in which I consumed this book,) was read by American English speakers, rather than Australians, which detracted from the setting almost constantly.