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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

That Night: Amy Glines

One night in March, a terrible tragedy shakes the Queens neighborhood where Jessica Nolan and Lucas Rossi live.

The year since the shooting has played out differently for Jess and Lucas, both of whom were affected by that night in eerily similar, and deeply personal, ways. Lucas has taken up boxing and lives under the ever-watchful eye of his overprotective parents, while trying to put good into the world through random acts of kindness — to pay back a debt he feels he owes the universe for taking the wrong brother.

Jess struggles to take care of her depressed mother, with the help of her elderly next-door neighbor, and tries to make ends meet. Without her best friend, who’s across the country at a special post-trauma boarding school, and her brother, who died that night, Jess feels totally alone in the world.

When Jess and Lucas's paths cross at their shared after-school job, they start to become friends… and then more.

Their community — and their families — were irrevocably changed by a senseless act of violence. But as Jess and Lucas fall in love, they'll learn to help each other heal and move forward — together.

(Goodreads)

So I got the first five chapters though, EpicReads... And holy crap this seems so interesting and slightly relatable as someone who's mourned the death of a friend he was practically my brother   
The story is about a club shooting, where teens frequent and the survivors guilt of two specific characters. 
Jess and Lucas are both survivors of the shooting and it has drastically changed their way of life in different ways, but also very similar ways. They both lost their brothers and neither of them know how to cope.
Jess is having to deal with her depressed mother, and she has no support.
Lucas is smothered in care. And all he wants to move on. But neither of them know how. 

Honestly, the story was very simple and sweet. They meet, they fall in love, and they start helping each other through the trauma of what happened at the shooting. And it was a very fast read. I fully admit, I cried because there where moments that reminded me of when my friend passed in a car accident. And it took my brother and I months years to fully come to terms with what happened. 

Until next time readers <3
Love Kat