I assume everyone wanting to read this book knows it is sad. Just from all the talk about it. From the moment I looked at the cover, my mom told me not to read it. Said it was the worst book ever. But could not prevent me from picking it up and reading it for myself. It was one of those books that you feel you cannot live a lifetime without reading. I can now tell you that she was wrong. Just because a book makes you cry does not mean it is a bad book. For that reason it is probably one of the best written ones. If the author was a bad writer you would not fall in love with the characters. You would not be so invested in their lives that you wished and prayed everything would be alright for them after all their struggles. After all, the struggles a character has temps you to feel empathy for them. If this book was badly written readers would not be so saddened by the ending. Therefore it is a great book. If a book is able to make me cry over a fictional being then congrats to the author. That is the true sign of a good book. Emotion means you care, and if you don’t care then the book was not well written enough to make you. That is the authors main goal in writing. If we did not care, we would not pick the book up off the shelves. So yes; this book made my cry. Yes; this author seemed terrible for doing it at the time. But this is a book about life and death. It puts the life into perspective and places death into life. And yes; I am still crying now. This book is way more than just okay.

“Okay,”