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Jul 12, 2016cambodianbunny rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A beautiful book. I'm not sure what happened but the connection I made with this book was unexpected. This is the type of thing I love the most about reading, being surprised by new books and enthralled in new stories you didn't see coming. Skylar and Josh were realistic characters who are both fighting the pull of this small town they've been born and raised in. I thought Skylar's relationship with her mother and the situation she was in to be heartbreaking. My heart ached when she went to the grocery store and stared at pasta that was $2.79, knowing it wouldn't be enough to feed her mother and her for the rest of the week. Even though she was literally starving she would always say that someone else had it worse. That someone was Josh, who had lost his leg in Afghanistan. For me Josh was not a likable character, I was put off from the very beginning where he called Chris a "f**." I hate that type of language and was immediately put off by him. The way he gets drunk to solve his problems also was unappealing, but he won me over in the end. I never ended up liking him, but I did end up respecting him. Overall I would recommend this book to most people. After I was finished reading it, it gave me the same feeling as The Fault in Our Stars, a feeling I didn't think I would feel ever again for a book.