Out Of Reach by Missy Johnson Blog Tour
Title: Out of Reach
Author: Missy Johnson
Release Date: May 8, 2014
My best friend was dying and I was in love with his girl.
Andy and I had been best friends since we were eight-years old.
Andy and I had been best friends since we were eight-years old.
Watching him slowly fade away, ever closer to his final breath, made me so incredibly angry. I knew there was nothing I could do to change it--I had given in to despair, but Andy had not. He had one last hand to play.
He wasn't going to simply sit back and wait for Death to claim him--not Andy. He was going to live life until he couldn't hold his eyes open any longer.
Andy didn't want to die in some sterile hospital and asked me to take him and Emily to the beach. It would be our last road trip together.
Emily. Emily was a problem for me.
I harbored a secret that would have torn our friendship apart. I was in love with Andy's girl, and had been since she'd walked into our sixth grade class, so many years ago.
So what kind of person am I? My best friend is dying, and it's awful--but my heart still aches for his girl. I hate myself for thinking beyond Andy's death and whether there could ever be a future for Emily and I, but I can't help it.
I'm in love with her.
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*5* Stars from me! |
The power of love not only the romantic kind but a love so powerful that even friends feel it in their bones. What would be the ultimate sacrifice in the name of love? Ensuring that the one you love will still be loved long after you have left this world. That is what this story is about.
The author was kind enough to make us feel Seth's betrayal of his friend, but in the end he would learn that he was simply be honoring Andy's memory. By doing what he wanted to the most... Loving Andy's Emily.
Yes granting a dying mans wish but fulfilling a long with held love, for the sake of love.
Missy gives us a glimpse of what it would be like to be the man that is in love with his dying friends girl. Seth filled with the guilt of what may or may not happen. It is a hard thing to accept, as I was reading it I truly felt as if I were in their shoes transported into this story as all of the characters feeling the pain of each and then finally the understanding, after the grief. Yes, I felt the grief profoundly till the bitter end. But what made it even more meaningful to me was the epilogue, because at the heart of it all whether there or not Andy was the main character, living on through the two that survive. It is all about Andy.
I loved it, I cried for it, and I am now thrilled that I read it.
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