By: Jay Clark
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Description:
Abram and Juliette know each other. They’ve lived down the street from each other their whole lives. But they don’t really know each other—at least, not until Juliette’s mom and Abram’s dad have a torrid affair that culminates in a deadly car crash. Sharing the same subdivision is uncomfortable, to say the least. They don’t speak.
Fast-forward to the neighborhood pharmacy, a year later. Abram decides to say hello. Then he decides to invite Juliette to Taco Bell.
To her surprise as well as his, she agrees. And the real love story begins.
Review:
This book was definitely a unique book, and a very unusual
love story between two people who may not have gotten together if it wasn’t for
their circumstances. But perhaps
everything happens for a reason and it was actually meant to be, it doesn’t
state this in the book but that’s what I’m going with right now.
We meet Abram and Juliette, both in the pharmacy waiting for
their medication, the way they deal with life after the death of their
parents. The very parents who were having
an affair with one another and the very parents who were killed in a car
accident. Now you might think it’s weird
that they start hanging out after all their parents pretty much changed all the
lives around them, but there is something about their weirdness and awkwardness
that works together. Seeing their
relationship grow from one in passing to friendship and eventually to depending
on one another and falling in love was actually a beautiful thing to
watch.
I can completely imagine the two characters in their “Prescription
for Love” story. It unquestionably has a
good beginning to build on and throughout the book you believe these two people
can actually be someone’s reality. It
was fascinating to watch Juliette finally accept what has happened with her
mother, because when you are on medication you don’t really feel what you need
to feel. I was gripped from the very
beginning and couldn’t put it down until the very end. Even at the end I almost wanted more. Yes there is a definitive ending but even
still I wanted more from these two because they were so different.
Overall this was a good read. It may not be what you expect, it’s not a
torrid love affair but it is a love affair none the less, between two people
who are coping with their lives in different but similar ways. I enjoyed it thoroughly from beginning to end
and I believe you will too. I really like the book cover but I wouldn’t have
minded seeing them at the CVS or just a plain pharmacy kind of sneaking up on
one another like they do in the book so obviously watching one another for a
while and both knowing it.
Disclaimer:
I received this book from NetGalley and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, so that I may give my honest opinion and a review. Whether it is good or not please do not let it discourage you from purchasing/reading the book yourself and forming your own opinion. What might be good for me may not be good for you and vice versa. With that said, Happy Reading Everyone!!!
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