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There is some tough topics in this book. I almost threw my kindle a couple times throughout just the way some characters behaved.
Not to say the book isnt good. It really is! It was something I didn't know I needed, and I have been thinking about it a lot recently! It hasn't left me since I finished reading it.
I have felt exactly like Ana before, put in her position, not exactly but similarly and the outcome was roughly similar. Just not the ending.... It helped to see how it ended for them to help me.
Now for why 3.5-4 stars.
While this is a really close to home story for me, the characters got a slight bit annoying at times, and the immediate thought I had when she went to the drug store, which I don't understand how she got there when she was just at work and there was no like page break to tell me there was a time jump, it was just the next paragraph after being at work and talking to people. But for the fact she even had to go, which caused so many problems could have been avoided... it was unnecessary imo, now I'm not sure if this was based on some truth and this all actually happened irl. I'm also wondering, she works in a hospital, could she not have just used one of the tests they have there? Instead of going to the drug store? It would have saved some time and it would have caused less problems, but I know a romance novel is supposed to have some shock value to it and some sort of fight I guess that the MCs need to work through to get to their HEA, and I'm not saying that it was bad. I feel like it could have been a just a little more thought out I guess.
Everything else though, the relationship that happened between Ana and Xander was beautiful how it developed and how she went through the stages of grief and Loss, and just I loved it.
That 'friend' from the restaurant though... he can find himself a hole to crawl into and just be forgotten... he angered me very much.