maybe one day by melissa kantor

  

Title: Maybe One Day

Author: Melissa Kantor

Date published: February 18th, 2014

Genre: YA Contemporary

Goodreads blurb:

Zoe and her best friend, Olivia, have always had big plans for the future, none of which included Olivia getting sick. Still, Zoe is determined to put on a brave face and be positive for her friend.

Even when she isn't sure what to say.

Even when Olivia misses months of school.

Even when Zoe starts falling for Calvin, Olivia's crush.

The one thing that keeps Zoe moving forward is knowing that Olivia will beat this, and everything will go back to the way it was before. It has to. Because the alternative is too terrifying for her to even imagine.

Non-spoiler review:

Melissa Kantor captures the beauty of friendship, the pain of life and how to deal with the painful things in life. This book shows the emotions of having a loved one have cancer, and my goodness, it’s on point.

Zoe and Olivia are about as different as cold and hot. Zoe has always been the negative and stubborn one and Olivia has always been the happy one who loves everyone. They always dreamed of big things, like living in Manhattan together. Then something happens that no one saw coming: Olivia is diagnosed with cancer. They never pictured anything like this ever happening, until it actually does. Suddenly, everything is going downhill for Zoe, she can’t think about life without Olivia, even though it’s a possibility and the bad thing is: the whole time Olivia is in the hospital, Zoe is falling in love with Calvin Taylor, Olivia’s crush.

Every character in this book is impacted by Olivia. It challenges them to think of not having Olivia there with them.

This book will make you feel all of the emotions. I cried about 100 pages into this book, actually I cried a LOT during this book. This book is definitely not a light read, and I wouldn’t recommend it to teens that are not mature. But I loved this book from the first page to the last and I wish there was more. Melissa really captured the emotions of these topics. I think Maybe One Day is one of my favorite books. (I do not say this about every book.)