Book Blurb
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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Toot's Review by Stacy Sabala
Emma visits her mother in the hospital. Her mother is brain dead but is hooked up to machines as her pregnancy advances. Emma is disgusted with her stepdad Dan. All he seems to care about is the baby and he no longer seems to think about her mom.
Emma’s anger and guilt consume her as she remembers how she chose extra credit homework over time spent with her mom. Her future was more important than the present. She is struggling with everything she has lost. School no longer is important to her. She numbly walks through her days at school and then to the hospital to see her mom.
One day at the hospital, she comes face to face with Caleb, the school car thief. He sees her with her mom and he knows. At school the next day he watches her. Emma realizes that Caleb understands her pain and anger better than anyone. She gravitates to him and starts getting to know him. When she is with him she starts to feel happy again and she doesn’t think of her mother for awhile.
Emma wants Caleb to fix her but accepts the fact when he explains there is no fix. She wonders if she will always be broken.
This book was intense. The situation presented to Emma and her stepdad, Dan, was heartbreaking. The emotions jumped off the page. The reader could almost feel Emma’s anger and hatred. Her soul was tortured and she was so broken from her loss.
Caleb was the same, broken. After losing his sister and being blamed by his parents, his soul is also tortured. He and Emma begin to find comfort in each other.
It was a sad story with heartbreaking situations written from Emma’s point of view. She draws you into her grief and watch as she works through the decisions made and what she has to do. I give it a 4 out of 5.
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