Let me start by being honest: I thought I was going to hate this novel. I don't really do the whole poetry thing, so when I realized this was written the way it is, I was giving some serious side-eye. I went in with a closed-mind, and in the beginning I almost walked away... and I'm so very glad I didn't (I seem to do that a lot). 
 What I found inside the pages of The Day Before was a beautiful story, lovely prose and characters I liked. 
 Amber is facing something huge. Instead of spending her last day with her family or friends, she elects to spend it on the beach to clear her mind. 
 And then she meets Cade. 
 These two share a day that they try their best not to let include the pain of what will come for them tomorrow, just the joy and beauty of right now. Their story is quick and sweet and at the end, I found myself wanting more, more, more. 
 I was so stunned with Schroeder's writing style (and the fact that I didn't hate it) that I immediately went and purchased one of her other novels, written in the same style: I Heart You, You Haunt Me and liked that one as well. Now the rest of her titles are living in my ten-mile-long to be read list, but I hope to get to them some day!