When Yamauchi Sakura accidentally left her diary on a seat in the hospital, she never expected to find one of her classmates reading it! Now he’s the only person at school who knows her secret: she’s dying. Sakura has been living with pancreatic disease, but now her doctors think she has around a year left to live. Her classmate has been a very content loner, but Sakura insists on becoming friends with him and convincing him to help her complete her bucket list of sorts.
My younger brother was obsessed with this book last year, so I decided I should check it out because it’s been a while since he’s been super into a book. While this seems like your usual light romance with a terminal illness thrown in the mix, it’s actually so much more. We see two kids learning to live every day to the fullest. I wouldn’t call this a romance because it’s about friendship, grief, and realizing how we all impact each other.
This is such an incredibly sweet, thoughtful, funny, and sad book. I thought I was prepared for the ending, but that very sneaky foreshadowing really caught me off guard! I think that if you’re looking for a contemporary book that will make you cry and leave a lasting impression on you, then this might be the book for you. I highly encourage picking it up!
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