When I was little I believed in Jesus and Santa, spontaneous combustion, and the Loch Ness monster. Now I believe in science, statistics, and antibiotics.
So says seventeen-year-old Zac Meier during a long, grueling leukemia treatment in Perth, Australia. A loud blast of Lady Gaga alerts him to the presence of Mia, the angry, not-at-all-stoic cancer patient in the room next door. Once released, the two near-strangers can’t forget each other, even as they desperately try to resume normal lives. The story of their mysterious connection drives this unflinchingly tough, tender novel told in two voices.
My Rating: 3/5
This book was written by a local author and is actually also set in my home city which I had mixed feelings about.
On the one hand, I loved the fact that I knew all the places that were mentioned but on the other hand as I knew the settings really well I could tell when the story moved outside of Perth to regional Western Australia not much research was obviously done.
Plot wise on the surface this book seems like an Aussie version of The Fault in Our Stars but whilst the characters in TFIOS seem much older than their teenage years, Zac and Mia felt very much like the adolescents they are.
I really enjoyed this book and I finished it in one day and the only real negative thing I can think of is that I didn't like the open ended way the book finished.
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