How did I choose to get over the horror of trying to read Me & Earl & the Dying girl, a book about a girl with cancer? By reading this, a book about a girl AND a boy with cancer! 
 The Fault in Our Stars comparisons are unavoidable and while this didn't have anywhere near the impact on me that TFIOS did the first time I read it, it's still a solid and sweet book about teenage friendship in the face of fear and death and statistics. I loathed Mia for the vast majority of the book, I think I would have preferred it more if we got that character insight a little bit earlier into the book so she was one dimensionally awful for a smaller part of the book. 
 Addictive and immersive, I read this in one sitting. I have a huge spot for Australian fiction, and this is unmistakably Australian which was very endearing. It definitely made me miss my farm though, so boo :(