This teen novel in verse is just simply amazing. It reaches into the core of emotion as a 17-year-old teeage boy confronts the fact that his mother is in a coma. There has been some serious debate as to whether or not they should pull the plug because there is no evidence that she is going to get better. The unnamed protagonists has to sort through whether or not this is murder as well as the fact that his father is not yet ready to give up hope.

Readers are also brought into his "new" everyday life, where he tries to carry on with school, his relationship with his best friend Jack, and sort through how to balance all of this with the trauma surrounding his mother's health.

As someone who came home to find that my own mother had passed away, I really felt myself enthralled by the strong, realistic voice presented by the author to be just perfect. The poetry format seems perfect to present this moving tale, and Fullerton makes the most of it with her strong and incredibly moving writing.