The Arrival of Someday

The Arrival of Someday

Jen Malone

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In this heartfelt and emotionally candid contemporary YA, author Jen Malone delves into the life of a teen whose world is brought to an abrupt halt when she learns she’s in dire need of an organ transplant. Hard-charging and irrepressible eighteen-year-old Amelia Linehan could see a roller derby opponent a mile away—and that’s while crouched down, bent over skates, and zooming around a track at the speed of light. They don’t call her Rolldemort for nothing! What she couldn’t see coming, however, was the unexpected flare-up of a rare liver disorder she was born with. But now it’s the only thing she—and everyone around her—can think about. With no guarantee of a viable organ transplant, everything Amelia’s been sure of—like her college plans, the mural she’d been commissioned to paint, or the possibility of one day falling in love—has become a huge question mark, threatening to drag her down into a sea of what-ifs she’s desperate to avoid. Then a friend from the past shows up. With Will, it’s easy to forget about what’s lurking underneath the lightness of their time together. It’s easy to feel alive when all signs point elsewhere. On the other hand, with the odds decidedly not in her favor, Amelia knows this feeling couldn’t last forever. But what can?


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    Reading some of the these ya books makes me wonder if i’ve grown out of ya or if this particular clump of books i’ve been reading are just miserable. the characters here are…annoying? they feel pretty 2-d and performative. details that would usually be fun and quirky or endearing are just annoying me. specifically one thing that has really annoyed me is all the drop ins about the different causes the MC plus friends and family root for. Like are these amazing causes? absolutely. but they don’t really add anything to the story other than knowing she cares about that stuff. like saying she was going to the march with her friend and was disappointed that she couldn’t has conveyed enough to me about who she is as a person without adding these other drop ins. i don’t know maybe im just weird and annoying.

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