A powerful story about a girl from a religious yet abusive family who in one magical summer discovers life free from the narrow confines of her ultra conservative life. Pattyn blossoms under the loving guidance of her Aunt J and the budding romance with neighbor Ethan. But even as Pattyn's eyes are opened to new possibilities in life, the seeds of her destruction are being sown, and the reader is swept along for the roller coaster ride with growing fear. After all, we know the title of the book.
The free verse poetry means lots of white space on each page, and 532 pages fly past very quickly. I was intruiged with the placement of the words on many of the pages that if read vertically revealed alternate messages.
The ending of the book disturbed me - I would like to have seem a postscript letting us know that tragic loves are survivable in the end, as some of us know that they are.
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