LitPick Review
Emmi Miller is an average teenager; her life consists of soccer, friends, and parental problems. However, her life is radically changed in a short few days when she contracts a virus that led to congestive heart failure. Now, her life is in a form of a beeper, and she's waiting day in and day out for it to tell her a new heart has come so she can go one with her life. Soon, Emmi realizes how, maybe, her life will never go back to normal, and through it all, she learns how great her family and friends are.
Opinion:
I felt like I've encountered this storyline so many different times, and this book doesn't write it in a very refreshing way. The plotline is predictable and cliche. The characters and situations are underdeveloped. One dramatic event happens after the next making them seem unrealistic and jammed together to make the book more exciting. Also, the characters relationships are established, but the reader doesn't feel the full connection between the characters. Moreover, the narrator, Emmi, is extremely whiny and immature. The author's writing is choppy and unsophisticated. Although she captures the teenage voice pretty well, at times it seems as if she's trying too hard. All in all, it was a decent book if you're looking for a light read full of cheesy, predictable drama.
