Natasha is running out of time. She’s trying to hold her family, and their life in the US, together, and she’s running out of time.
Daniel is trying to keep his head down and be a dutiful son, easier said than done when you have the heart of a poet and the planned future of a surgeon.
As if high school isn’t hard enough, your entire world beginning and ending on the same day is a lot to get your head around. That’s how Daniel feels, anyways, when he falls for Natasha and realizes he’s going to lose her, all in the same day. Thus begins a chaotic series of events as Natasha battles to keep her family from being deported while Daniel fights for her to acknowledge the feelings he can see welling up inside her.
It’s a quintessential “hopeless high school romance” but with a seasoning of drama, strong cultural backgrounds, and interconnected characters (hard to do when set in New York). I wouldn’t say that I loved the characters necessarily, but I was pleasantly pulled into the story and read it fairly quickly, so that always seems like a step in the right direction. It’s a good book for a quick read, plus who doesn’t love a little hopeless romance every now and then?
2% Rating: 6.5/10
Recommend? Maybe..?
Re-Read? Probably not
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