Alex’s voice is a strong one, and fans of Halpern’s Get Well Soon (2007) and Have a Nice Day (2012) will embrace it. The Fuck-It List seems to get mostly abandoned somewhere along the way as Alex grapples with truly shitty things that have happened and learns how to live life with abandon in spite of them. Along the way, snarky, horror-movie-obsessed Alex falls for Leo, but having sex with someone and connecting to them emotionally are two entirely different things. Others, like have sex with someone you love, are going to take some time. Some items are relatively easy to accomplish-bake cookies for the janitor, for instance. Toby and the Snowflakes - Starred review, The Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books Into the Wild Nerd Yonder - South Carolina Young Adult Book Award. The two reconnect, and Alex agrees to help Becca cross items off her bucket list only since bucket lists are for old people, they deem it the “Fuck-It List” (“noble, but with a hint of edge to it”). Alex is still reeling from the shock of her father’s death-and the fact that her best friend Becca slept with her boyfriend the day of his funeral-when she gets more bad news: Becca has cancer.
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