Zac and MIA by A J Betts

Zac and MIA

by A J Betts

"The last person Zac expects in the room next door is a girl like Mia, angry and feisty with questionable taste in music. In the real world, he wouldn't--couldn't--be friends with her. In hospital different rules apply, and what begins as a knock on the wall leads to a note--then a friendship neither of them sees coming"--

The last person Zac expects in the room next door is angry and feisty Mia. In the real world, he wouldn't, couldn't be friends with her, but in the hospital, different rules apply. The plot contains profanity and sexual references.

Reviewed by Sam@WLABB on

4 of 5 stars

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This one was tough. Two teens with cancer, but it wasn't a story about cancer. It was a story of friendship and love and not giving up.

The boy from room 1. The beautiful boy who put my pieces back together


I instantly fell in love with Zac. Here he is, back in the hospital after his cancer returns, and he is going out of his way to help one of the cancer ward newbies, Mia. Mia is hiding her cancer from mostly everyone in her life, and she is angry at the world for this illness inconvenience. Both Mia and Zac change over the course of this book. Mia grows up a lot. She realizes that the things that she thought were so important really weren't. She begins to recognize the important people in her life, and begins to value them.

You always called me lucky, and I'm beginning to think you're right. I never thought I'd be lucky enough to have a friend like you.


I certainly had to ride a roller coaster of emotions.

Every time I feel like I am slipping off the edge of the Earth, she catches me. She has good hands.


There were funny bits, sad bits, serious bits, even swoony bits. I really enjoyed watching the friendship between Zac and Mia take root and grow.

When we're together, there's not falling off, falling out, or falling down


**Please excuse my quotes. I listened to an audiobook, and was unsure of the punctuation

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