David is 17 (almost 18) and suffers from a condition where he can't feel pain and has troubles regulating his body temperature. Which sounds like it could have been a really nice book, but somewhere it fell short.

David really acted like a child most of the time and the writing didn't help there either. He has a constant assistant, but since he didn't have any mental issues and was perfectly aware (by training) of what he could and couldn't do I didn't really understand why. Surely he was capable himself of checking his temperature (he has a watch) or taking his blood pressure. I also wasn't sure why they would be putting him in an assisted living facility, since he was perfectly fine living on his own.

One other thing that bothered me was that everything happened really fast (like on a couple of pages) and was never mentioned later. One of his friends dies in a car accident, which is never mentioned later at all. They go to the funeral and that's about it.

Not really for me.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.

This was definitely a unique book.

For the most part, I enjoyed this book. David's condition was one that I wasn't very familiar with, but I had heard of an it was a nice change from the other physical illness books that deal mainly with cancer.

I did feel like at the beginning that David sounded a little young, but as the story progressed, I was able to see his age a bit more.

I felt like some parts were a little irrational, like David's parents dumping him and him not being more upset and when [spoiler] there wasn't more issues.

I did like part three the most, who doesn't love a good road trip!

Overall, I enjoyed this book, I flew through it, but I didn't love it.

I received this novel from NetGalley.

This novel swept me up and engulfed me from the beginning to end. I love the character progression and that the protagonist has a rare disease, I think rare diseases are often over looked and it was so intresting to learn a little about something new.

As much as I enjoyed the novel for the most part, after I read the final sentence, I was hit with a feeling of, 'did I really enjoy this'? And I think that comes from nothing is really finished at the end, loose ends aren't really tied, their lives just continue. Which is fine, just leaves me wanting that little bit more...