Maybe One Day: Escape with the most uplifting, romantic and heartwarming must-read book of the year!

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Have you ever read a book that was completely addicting, really moving (enough to make you cry), and in the end, still had no idea how to rate it? My heart almost couldn’t take this one y’all 😭 It was such a beautiful story of loss, grief, and second chances. Jess has spent years believing that Joe, the love of her life, abandoned her during her darkest days. When her mother passes away she finds a box of letters from Joe that takes everything she thought she knew and turns it on it’s head. I’ve been on a bit of a romcom frenzy lately. I don’t know what it is about them, light, airy, fun, easy.. who knows? You are doing her a big favor," Olivia assured me. "As soon as she sees what you can do with these girls, she's going to realize that." PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING: My main two loves was the friendship and romance but everything else that was combined into this novel was pretty much close to perfection. The characters, all so deftly drawn and easily distinguishable grew onto be like a leech.

What I did enjoy about this novel is Zoe's humour towards most things. This is probably the only reason that I kept reading, because it made most things bearable. The memorial service is the most well done part of the story. It's described lovely and very realistic, I felt as if I was right there beside Zoe and her family. I was actually close to shedding a tear at this part. The story was enhanced with warm humor, a cast of diverse characters, and a journey that extended miles and continents. I also loved the evolution of Jess and the strength of her character throughout the book. It is full of laughter and tears...and for me, a good deal of angst over what was to be discovered. Eminem does not want to play the Prince Charming-esque character so desired by women and depicts himself instead as a battle-hardened soldier aware of what women genuinely want from men in relationships (this awareness gives Eminem a reason to avoid any sort of chivalry and sacrifice for women who will not return the favour). The romance wasn't needed in this book. I disliked Calvin, and Zoe certainly deserved better. This type of book written by this author didn't need that, but it didn't bother me too much that it was there. Jess has just lost her mother and she and her cousin begin to go through the items in the attic of the house. Jess finds a box of cards and letters that turn everything she thought she knew about her life completely on its head. In the box are letters from Joe, the man her parents told Jess abandoned her in her darkest hour. The letters spur Jess on a quest to find Joe--and the results aren't exactly what she was expecting, yet they are exactly what she needs.There's a . . . I mean, there has to be some mistake. How could you be getting medicine already?" Somehow that was the most implausible part of what she'd told me. I'd slept at her house Saturday night. She'd been fine. I'd talked to her this morning. Eight hours later she was in the hospital and getting medicine? How could they even diagnose what she had that fast? More problematic is the behavior of the doctors in this universe, since it's obviously not set in the US where I live. Olivia goes to a doctor's appointment. The doctor, Dr. Weiss, notices some strange bruises, and combined with her headache and exhaustion, sends her to the Med Center. At the med center, they take blood, in which they find abnormal cells. Then, they send her to UH to do a bone marrow aspiration. They find blasts in her bone marrow, and put in a central line so the medication will go straight to her body. The medicine for her leukemia that they've just found. Okay, so, the rape comment is what threw me and I didn't like at all. I know that Zoe is pretty angsty at times but, was that necessary?

Holy broken heart batman! There are very few books out there that can make me have the ugly cry moment and this one has made the list. I cried three, yes, THREE, times reading this…IN PUBLIC! But seriously Maybe One Day may be one of the best friendship stories I have ever read and it was worth all the public humiliation.

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Zoe and Olivia were more than just best friends. They were sisters, not bound by blood,but by love and friendship.Their friendship made me jealous. I wished so badly that I could have had a friend like that at their age.They were there for each other in way that their parents and families couldn't understand. Olivia's mother had the most problems with the friendship. It was implied that Adriana Greco didn't believe that Zoe was a good influence on her daughter. I loved, LOVED that both girls had family units that were fully immeshed in the book. That's a new YA trend that I am loving. In the past, the families of YA characters have been difficult to spot in a book. I really liked Olivia's brother Jake.He was an amazing brother to Olivia and friend to Zoe. Sometimes the friendship between brother and sister's best friend seems forced,but not in this case. I’m not saying it’s bad because I think it’s still a good story about friendship and what it really means to be there for someone you care about no matter what. It’s just that the main themes of the story seem to have been overcome by the tragedy and then later the romance that the other interesting elements have been scarcely explored. It could have been so much more. She never said anything until one night when she confessed her feelings. Now she’s afraid she’s ruined their friendship forever.