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I have a number of emotions as I finished this book but one at the forefront of my mind is that I was cheated. I am an adult reading a young adult novel and I feel I was cheated because we didn't have books like this when I was a teenager.

That being said I have to say this is one of the best books I have read in a while. I am quite stingy with a 5 star rating but this book is well deserved. It is a wonderful love story about two teenagers that meet in a cancer support group. I at first felt that this story would be depressing and of course I did shed many a tear but the love disocovered is so much more than what was lost.

I love these books! I thought the first one was wonderful and reads like a true story. The second one does the same. I love all of the characters, even the bad ones, and I root for the ones that have no one in their corner. Again I had to keep reminding myself that this wasn't fiction but it such a gritty portrayal of addiction and life on the streets. It isn't pretty and at times will turn your stomach but in this day and age I feel as though everyone should be familiar with the dangerous path addiction can take because it is ugly and it happens fast.

I didn't like the ending but the ending is real. Kudos to Marni Mann.