Emily Henry's stunning debut novel perfectly captures those bittersweet months after high school, when we dream not only of the future, but of all the roads and paths we've left untaken. Natalie's last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical start...until she starts seeing the "wrong things." They're just momentary glimpses at first - her front door is red instead of its usual green, there's a pre-school where the garden store should be. But then her whole town disappears for hours, fading away into rolling hills and grazing buffalo, and Nat knows something isn't right. That's when she gets a visit from the kind but mysterious apparition she calls "Grandmother," who tells her: "You have three months to save him." The next night, under the stadium lights of the high school football field, she meets a beautiful boy named Beau, and it's as if time just stops and nothing exists. Nothing, except Natalie and Beau.
7/15/15: I will write a real review when it is closer to the release date but for right now these are my feelings for this book:
Update 5/1/16: Those are still my feelings about this book. I just finished rereading and I still love it so deeply. This book feels real to me in ways that so many others don't. The ending made me cry the second time as much as it did the first time.
