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What would you do if someone you loved was going to die and you had the possibility of saving them but it meant risking your life and believing in the unbelievable. What if it meant the possibility of missing out on their final days on earth if you failed, or if you were wrong?
Sixteen Minutes follows Nell as she navigates her relationships with her boyfriend Cole, her best friend Stevie B. and the introduction of a new girl at school into their lives. Cole's sister is sick, she has been her whole life, and when the new girl claims to be from the future and to know how to save Finn, who she pronounces will die in days without her, Nell, Cole, and Stevie B must decide whether or not to believe the unbelievable, or risk losing Finn and possibly each other in the process.
This is a very character driven novel. Their world, and the one that Charlotte claims to come from in the future, aren't very strongly built but that's okay, because this book is about Nell. It's about friendship and the lengths that we as humans are willing to go to for the ones we love.
Sixteen Minutes reminded me a lot of reading Vampires, Hearts and Other Dead Things by Margie Fuston. I absolutely adored both books and how they explored the the complete dismissal of self preservation when we are faced with the possibility of losing someone we love. How in more cases than we probably know, we are willing to believe in impossibility if it gives us a little hope.
I loved Sixteen Minutes. I love books that make you feel and this one did not disappoint. I highly recommend Sixteen Minutes for those who enjoyed Vampires, Hearts and Other Dead Things, or enjoy really well crafted YA novels of love and hope and a little science fiction.
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