Release Date: August 23, 2016Published by: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux(BYR)
Read from: August 17- August 20, 2016Stand-aloneSource: TxLAFor fans of: Contemporary, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Diversity (physical disorder), YA
Agnes doesn't know it, but she only has one hundred days left to live. When she was just a baby, she was diagnosed with Progeria, a rare disease that causes her body to age at roughly ten times the normal rate. Now nearly sixteen years old, Agnes has already exceeded her life expectancy.
Moira has been Agnes’s best friend and protector since they were in elementary school. Due to her disorder, Agnes is still physically small, but Moira is big. Too big for her own liking. So big that people call her names. With her goth makeup and all-black clothes, Moira acts like she doesn’t care. But she does.
Boone was friends with both girls in the past, but that was a long time ago—before he did the thing that turned Agnes and Moira against him, before his dad died, before his mom got too sad to leave the house.
An unexpected event brings Agnes and Moira back together with Boone, but when romantic feelings start to develop, the trio’s friendship is put to the test.
"People change Agnes."pg. 14
"People who are different get bullied all the time."pg. 26
"Maybe our entire society is totally screwed up."pg. 113
"Sometimes I lie very still in my bed and pretend I never existed."pg. 142
This book is one that will stay with me for a long time. Not only for the way it was written or what it was about, but also because of the way it reminded me as well as the characters to live for myself and not to be scared to experience new things. Definitely something everyone needs to be reminded of all the time."Everything about how she looks and acts is so in-your-face. How are people supposed to respond? Like non-assholes for starters."pg. 197
Labels: Challenges, Contemporary, Disability, Romance, Stand-alones, YA