This is the story of a 17-year-old American girl charged with negligent criminal homicide...aggravated by reading a text message on her phone while driving. Which triggered a collision in the bend, fatally ramming his gymnastics coach—the very one who was the adoration of the whole town!—

The prison sentence hovers over his head, and until the last fifty pages, one is hanging on the verdict!

But I didn't really get hooked on this book because of the countless dialogues without much interest, which dilute the real meaning of this tragedy, by fleshing out the existence of a carefree teenager. ( )

This book deserves 4.7 stars. ( )

This book is written from the viewpoint of the teenage daughter and her mother. After a car wreck with a fatality the book leads into life,relationships, trust, forgiveness, and relationship struggles too. The first few chapters kind of repeat to get the point across but the ending will make you cry with a full heart! ( )

I enjoyed reading this book and really wanted to know how it would end. Although I felt disappointed in some of the trial details (wondering why certain things were not being done), i felt the plot wrapped up nicely.

*I received a digital copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review. ( )

A momentary lapse of judgment at 16 years of age deals a devastating blow to a high school girl. This novel, written by alternating between her voice and her mother's, grabs you from the first page and leaves you with an eventual believable and satisfactory resolution. The story is good, and the daughter's voice rings true, the mother's a bit less, but the voices of the men in the periphery of the story hardly at all. Still, worth the read as it will hit you on an emotional level, with its moral lesson. I think it could have been much improved with some editing of the repetition that plagues the first third of the book. This would appeal more to the YA market than general fiction, in my experience.

Received an electronic copy through the Library Thing Early Reviewers program. Thanks! ( )