Author: Elizabeth Scott
Publication Date: January 28th 2014
~A copy was provided by Harlequin Teen via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review~
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Life. Death. And...Love?
Emma would give anything to talk to her mother one last time. Tell her about her slipping grades, her anger with her stepfather, and the boy with the bad reputation who might be the only one Emma can be herself with.
But Emma can't tell her mother anything. Because her mother is brain-dead and being kept alive by machines for the baby growing inside her.
Meeting bad-boy Caleb Harrison wouldn't have interested Old Emma. But New Emma-the one who exists in a fog of grief, who no longer cares about school, whose only social outlet is her best friend Olivia-New Emma is startled by the connection she and Caleb forge.
Feeling her own heart beat again wakes Emma from the grief that has grayed her existence. Is there hope for life after death-and maybe, for love?
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~A copy was provided by Harlequin Teen via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review~
Life. Death. And...Love?
Emma would give anything to talk to her mother one last time. Tell her about her slipping grades, her anger with her stepfather, and the boy with the bad reputation who might be the only one Emma can be herself with.
But Emma can't tell her mother anything. Because her mother is brain-dead and being kept alive by machines for the baby growing inside her.
Meeting bad-boy Caleb Harrison wouldn't have interested Old Emma. But New Emma-the one who exists in a fog of grief, who no longer cares about school, whose only social outlet is her best friend Olivia-New Emma is startled by the connection she and Caleb forge.
Feeling her own heart beat again wakes Emma from the grief that has grayed her existence. Is there hope for life after death-and maybe, for love?
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There is no possible way to write a review without it
getting personal. Because it is. Personal. It also hits home a lot more than
I'd like to admit, and it's hard to have an unbiased review because of that.
It's always hard to see both sides when you
know somebody else's so much better. Now, mine and Emma's is not the same,
I got to grieve for the person I lost, while Emma hasn't, not that she hasn't
tried, but the fact that she can't because her mother's body is being kept
alive for the baby growing inside of her, and she has to see her, everyday,
knowing that her mother's dead, yet she's right there in front of her, just out
of reach. In a way, it's a whole lot worse that just losing somebody. They die,
you say goodbye, they're buried, they're gone, and eventually you try and move
on, but the fact is, she literally
can't.
