Emery Lord has said that she wanted to write a love story in which mental ill health played a part but was not the focus. And this means that the dual narrative structure suffers a little because so much of your attention is focused on her to the detriment of Jonah’s sections. Vivi, who spends much of the book building up to or in a manic phase of her bipolar disorder, is as dazzling to the reader as she is to Jonah. Jonah and Vivi meet and the collision shakes them both up, shaking secrets free. Vivi knows none of this she doesn’t look at him with pity.And Jonah doesn’t know Vivi’s secrets, and she’s glad about that, so she won’t push him with questions. And that his dad died of a heart attack six months ago, shattering everything. Everyone knows him, and his parents, and his siblings. Jonah has always lived in Verona Cove, just as his parents did.
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