istytehcrawk:

Jake Valentine is a lucky man. He’s spending just over three months in close quarters with his gorgeous, ridiculous best friend, traveling the country and seeing the best it has to offer. That’s not why he’s lucky, though. He’s lucky because he’s a fictional character, which means I couldn’t reach into the book and smack him upside the head every time he was being stubborn or clueless or just generally frustrating – which seemed to happen quite a bit. (I felt the same way about Aiden at times, but far less often.)

100 Days is a story, in part, about making mistakes, figuring out how to put things right again afterward, and moving on to make the next mistake (it’s inevitable, really – being fallible is part of being human). It’s about getting closure for losses old and new. It’s about figuring out that it’s okay to need – to need people, to need space, to need a hug, to need a good cry. It’s about finally acknowledging the love you’ve felt for as long as you can remember, even though you didn’t recognize it as such (sometimes only by sheer force of will or a heaping helping of denial). It’s about the journey of life and all the pain, joy, and madness that goes along with it.

It’s about figuring out that where you go next doesn’t have to be where you go forever. As Hale’s tagline for the novel says, the road never runs out.

Buy 100 Days by mimsyhale from Interlude Press here.

And huge thanks also go to Misty for her kind, thoughtful, and insightful review!