Fuck, that hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm trying to avoid spoilers but read on with caution if you so choose. It was easy to forget what I was reading as it was happening so the ending shouldn't have fucked with me quite like that. I have some issues with the romance in general mostly because it's making me incredibly sad to think about. I liked it more with every page, literally. I felt weird about Sammie and didn't really get her for a long time, but I really started loving it towards the end. Gah. 
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 Wooooof. This book. I have a really weird mix of feelings about it, but I'm left with an overwhelming positive (in the sense that I definitely liked it more than disliked it) feeling about it. I'm so close to going for 4.5 stars but I keep reminding myself about the first half of the book. I'm going to break it down a little bit to explain what I mean. 
 Sammie was a... weird character. She was hard to get used to in a lot of ways. She was awkward and failed miserably at interacting in social situations. It felt kind of uncomfortable to be in her head, especially because she's writing everything down from her perspective in the Memory Book. She finds out that she has a type of dementia, essentially, that will cause her to lose her memories and likely die at a young age. She creates this book to fill with memories and daily happenings so that she doesn't forget anything as her health declines. Super sad premise, obviously. At the beginning, she seemed "normal" (just health-wise) and it was hard to figure out what was going to happen with her. As her health gets worse, the book gets sadder and sadder. 
 I really couldn't relate to her at first, but this is truly a book where I liked it more with each page I read. She grew on me, the story grew on me, the other characters grew on me... just to the point where I was REALLY starting to care about what happened to her by the end of the book. 
 Unfortunately, I did have some bigger issues with the romance. Spoiler? alert: love triangle. I usually don't mind them, but in a book where the person seems to have a limited amount of time to live... I want them to be with the right person! She had crushed on this guy, Stuart, for years. He was a writer and a little pretentious, but it seemed to be going well. She also had her childhood best friend, Coop, come back in her life towards the beginning of the book. I'm a sucker for childhood-friends-to-lovers tropes, so I was rooting SO HARD for them to get together. More in a spoiler tag: (view spoiler)[So yeah, she spends most of the book with Stuart when clearly she should have been with Coop from the beginning. Stuart IS a nice guy and he cares for her, so it was weird to be rooting against him anyways. By the end of the book, there's the classic love triangle blowup, Coop/Stuart/Sammie have a falling out, and you WISH that her and Coop can get their shit together before the end of the book. They do, so that's nice. (hide spoiler)] Yeah. Just not a fan of the romance in general, even though I super shipped her with one of them. 
 Now for the ending. I sobbed, not gonna lie. I have an issue with sad books that make me cry because for some reason, I don't expect it until it's too late. (view spoiler)[I knew she was probably going to die, but it didn't hit me until the VERY end of the book that ..shit.. she was actually going to die. And of course she did. (hide spoiler)] This book was sad but powerful. I loved the format of the Memory Book but definitely wish it had more of a "scrapbook" vibe to it. I also really enjoyed the guest posts from family and friends. They made me cry quite a bit too. 
 Overall, this book may take some getting used to. Sammie as a character was hard for me to relate to, but maybe others will? You'll end up rooting for her like crazy, I promise. I think the comp titles for this are SUPER accurate, too. If you're a sucker for books that will pack a punch and make you cry, I would highly recommend this one.