For a book about death, this book is full of life and what it means to live.

It has Slurpees, farts, lying to an understudy for Tracy Turnblad, a grandmother, teen love. But, ultimately, it captures so much about the friendships that we have as teenagers--the nature of those friendships and how those friendships change.

Shaun David Hutchinson is a master at realistic characterization in fantastic contexts. A dead but not-dead girl is not realistic, but the nature of the friendship between July and Dino sure was. I cannot wait to recommend this book to my patrons. One of my patrons is a huge Shaun David Hutchinson fan. I cannot wait to tell her about this upcoming title.

This was by far the weirdest book that has made me tear up.

Dino is trying to figure out who he is in the context of his friendships and relationship, decide what he wants for his future, and make sense of the unexpected death of his ex-best friend, July. That is, until July is suddenly not so dead and he's also trying to reconcile their friendship.

Hutchinson does an excellent job of illustrating the growing pains of wanting to be someone else while also liking who you are with the people you're close to.

This book is the perfect amount of weird, and honest, and heartbreaking.

"Knowing the worst about you doesn't mean I can't hope for the best."

I loved this book! The full review will be posted soon at kaitgoodwin.com/books! Thank you very much for this wonderful opportunity to connect books to their readers!

Funny, weird, slightly gross.

Interesting concept which I think many teens will enjoy exploring.