"It gets a lot worse. That's the point. This healthy-feeling time now just feels like tease. Like I'm in this holding pattern, flying in smooth circles within sight of the airport, in super-comfortable first class. But I can't enjoy the in-flight movie or free chocolate chip cookies because I know that before the airport is able to make room for us, the plane is going to run out of fuel, and we're going to crash-land into a fiery, agonizing death." —Lucy Moore (page 148)
Author: Jessica Verdi
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Fire
Published: 2013
Number of Pages: 287
ISBN: 978-1-4022-7785-6
Price: $9.44 US | $11.24 SGD
I rate it 3.5/5 stars
Lucy Moore just had a mega-bad week ever in her life.
She lost her cast as Juliet at Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet on her drama club at school. Elyse St. James, her rival since years ago, was the one who got the role. Instead, Lucy got Mercutio as her cast. That’s her first problem. Her next problem is her beautiful boyfriend, Ty, did affair with Elyse, since they were Romeo and Juliet at the drama. Ty dumped her for Elyse. And the last is her biological mother, Lisa, came for the third time in her amazing-life-with-her-two-gay-dads. What else she expected them to give this time? Full financial support? Seriously, even ‘Mom’ or ‘Mother’ was never been an appropriate word to call her.
Going mad about everything, she then went to this club with her best friends, Max and Courtney, as her rebound to everything that’s not working her way. That’s when she met a stranger. That’s when she couldn’t remember what she was doing with this stranger. Maybe they had sex, but she didn’t even know whether she used protection or not. The exact thing of all: her life has changed after that time. She’s no longer a healthy girl.
She was diagnosed with HIV.
