Words on Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor

Friendship
Mar 11, 2015
2 min read

Zoe and her best friend, Olivia, have their whole life planned out. They're going to be famous ballerinas and live in NYC. Little girls will put posters of them on their walls and they'll dance in front of vast crowds. When the girls are kicked out of their super competitive ballet school, all their dreams seem crushed and it seems that all their hard work has been for nothing.

Now, several years later, the girls are at their local high school, starting their junior year. Even two years after leaving their old school, Zoe still longs to dance, and Olivia is trying to help her find something else to do. Nothing seems right for Zoe, who has made her views on the cheerleading squad very clear and has no idea what Olivia sees in Calvin Taylor, who Zoe frankly finds a bit of a jerk.

The small, quiet life the girls have made for themselves is shattered when Olivia is found with dangerous leukemia, and Zoe risks losing her best fruend in the world. Nothing seems right or fair anymore to her, and on top of it all, she also finds herself falling for Calvin, despite her better judgement. Zoe wants everything to go back to normal, but with Olivia in so much danger, it will take everything she has to pull through now.

Zoe and Olivia have a great friendship. They've known each other for 13 years, and even though they could arguably be very different, they go great together. Zoe is more of a pessimist, staying sort of by herself lone wof style. Olivia helps pull her out of her shell, and she's the brighter, slightly kinder one. The two of them are very realistic, which makes the story feel all the more real and heartbreaking.

This was a real tear-jerker. The characters emotions pull you into the story, and you feel as scared and upset about Olivia as they all do. The book was suspensful, but not in the way The Hunger Games or Divergent is suspensful. It's suspensful more because of the fact that you're scared about Olivia than any action there might be. At the end, I cried so hard! It was hartbreaking and a bit painful to read.

Regardless, this was a great book. The characters were real, the suspense kept me on edge, and the way the book messed with my emotions let me feel all the feels. This would be a good book for fans of things like The Fault in Our Stars. Sometimes, all I need is a sad book, you know? This is a stand alone, so if you need a single book to pull you through until the next book in a series you're reading comes out, this would be a good option if you don't mind some tears. 4/5 stars. Great read!