Leigh's review posted at Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews 
 4.5 stars 
 The only words I can adequately use to describe this book are "hauntingly beautiful". The story truly drifted off the pages and wrapped me into a world of two children growing up at the end of a dusty road with nothing but one another to count on. It was sad and sweet in its retelling of a friendship turning into love, and devastating in its honesty of the heartbreak they had to endure. 
 Swear on this Life tells a story within a story. Emiline reads a bestselling book only to discover that it tells the tale of her life. She recognizes herself as the main character in a tragic story of lost love, and knows that the author is her only childhood friend. Someone who vowed never to leave her, but still disappeared from her life. We learn about Emiline's youth as she reads the passages of the book, which are interspersed with her current reality taking place at the present time. We watch her simply exist in a long term relationship that has stagnated, all the while struggling with a past that she has not entirely come to terms with. 
 I'm not sure whether to characterize this as a young adult novel or not. It was unique in that it was partially told from the past, partially told from the future. The book within a book was not confusing in the least, but it did create two different tales: one that was the past and one that was the future. The tale written by Jase, 'All the Roads Between' was a young adult book. It detailed a growing love and devotion and broke my heart. It showed a boy growing into a truly good man and a girl that was betrayed by almost all those that should love her. But the larger story was not about growing up or first love. It was a story of second chances and finding out what you truly want. 
 It was raw and hopeful and told in a way that leapt off the page and pulled me in. 
 My only complaint about this story was that the ending felt rushed. With the entire story as the buildup, and for all of the blood, sweat and tears I experienced with these characters, I felt that it was wrapped up too quickly and succinctly. I took the journey with them, so I would have liked to see more of the culmination of Emiline and Jase's story than what I got. 
 But the journey itself was so beautiful, it was still so very much worth it. 
 Review copy provided for an honest review.