"At least you're jealous of the living, Nora." He said. "I'm fucking jealous of a dead man." 
 2017 is the year for Samantha Young! This woman is on fire with the level of books that she has been putting out. She blew me away at her first attempt at YA with The Impossible Vastness of Us, and I'm falling hard for the residents of Hartwell with the Hart's Boardwalk series. It should be no surprise that she stunned me once again with Play On, but I am, because this is not my typical read. 
 I am an emotional reader, and by that I mean that I take on the heroine's emotions for my own. When it comes to major loss and heartbreak, I usually shy away. But here's the thing about a book written by Sam Young: I will follow wherever she takes me. Even if that is down a path that I don't wish to go, I will follow, because I know that she will never leave me astray. And I was right. 
 Nora O'Brien had everything, but in a blink of an eye she lost it all. Once an adored only child of two loving parents, she finds herself drudging through life trying to make ends meet with no one to show her the love that she craves. That is until fate steps in and brings her Jim. Jim can offer her everything that she thought that she wanted. A home, a loving family, and a future that can be all her own. At 18 years old, she thought Jim was the answer to all her prayers, but at 18, we don't always make the best decisions. 
 Now in Scotland, Nora realizes that she was only infatuated with Jim and never in love with him. She owed him everything for getting her out of her crappy life in the states, but her guilt from holding him back from his own true love gnawed at her soul. But her timing was too late to let him go, because before she could, he was gone. 
 A year down the road Nora is still trudging through her day to day like she was when she was in the States. She's right back where she started, only with more guilt on her shoulders. But there is more light in her life than before. 
 She has Jim's loving family and friends, but the light that shines the brightest are the children that she volunteer's for at the local children's hospital. It's here that she meets Sylvie. And Sylvie changes everything for Nora. 
 Nora quickly finds that destiny has its own timing, and rarely does it coincides with what we want. Nora isn't ready to open herself up to someone else, especially someone like Aiden Lennox. What she soon realizes is that Aiden has his own regrets, burden's and heft of guilt. He craves her trust, her friendship and more. 
 Aiden and Nora's relationship is beyond complicated. But what truly pulled me in was their unconditional love for Sylvie! Oh my goodness, it was incredibly sweet. I love when a child can bring a couple together like this. But Aiden and Nora will have their own hardships, and it nearly BROKE me. Remember how I said that I'm an emotional reader? Yeah. I was dead inside for a little while. 
 But like only Sam Young can do, she revived me. She brought me back, because that's how she creates her heroines: full or resilience. I ADORED THIS BOOK! It was so hard, but so worthy. If you were a fan of On Dublin Street and Hero, you HAVE to read this book! It will challenge you, it will break you, and it will put you back together. 
 It was unwise to sweep the pieces of my past behind me simply because some of those pieces were jagged and painful. Each was a piece of a jigsaw, and I was the puzzle. I wasn't complete without them.