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Maybe One Day (2014)

by Melissa Kantor(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 8

ISBN

0062279203 (ISBN13: 9780062279200)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

HarperTeen

review 1: a cancer book that doesn't have much to add to this well-trod territory. The friendship is fine, although the characters feel generic to me. I'm writing this months after finishing the book and all I can remember is cancer-dancing. There were dancers and one of them got cancer. This book didn't affect my emotional landscape at all. The lack of medical reality which some reviewers have commented on didn't really bother me; I just felt let down by what seemed like a very generic story when I had been hoping to see some new insights on a problem so many (including me) struggle with. But I also don't care for Sarah Dessen books, beloved by many, so maybe I'm just a crusty old carbuncle. YMMV.
review 2: The first half of the book left a lot to be desired. But ... moreas I reached the end I connected a lot more with the narrator. Because in the end, I never expected her to actually die. And then I, much like the narrator, realized that it does happen. And it can happen just like that. The author managed to connect me to the reading and when Olivia's illness ended up being terminal, I feel deep sadness envisioning me and my best friend in the same situation. Good book. Not great, but good. less

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