Honestly though, as a book club choice we highly recommend. “Every page, I was like is this here break? And then … nope.” She can take a heavy hard depressing topic like this and make it readable. Angie, in our book club, nailed it when she said Hannah just writes in a way that makes you engage. or I need to get going on the laundry or start blah blah blah… ) Being on vacation with nothing but glorious time…I really was able to dig in. I rarely have time to just sink into a book without time restraints (ooh I have 30 minutes before I have to go….Then I thought about my answer and wondered how I gushed about a book that is – well honestly, extremely sad. In fact when one girl asked if Elsa’s life got any better (possible spoiler here) I said no. When my book club chose this book to be our May read, I felt they had made a good choice but knew I was not going to read it again this quickly, knowing at times how heavy and drawn the subject matter could be. I wanted to know what would happen next – and honestly reading a book like this reminded me how much I love just having time to be with a book. If you read my review you find that I soared through the book, having trouble putting it down. I read this book while on vacation this past February.
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