See You on Venus by Victoria Vinuesa
ISBN: 0593705130
Genres: Realistic Fiction, Romance
Format: Young Adult
Source: MSL Book Review
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This YA romance novel is told through two first person narrators.  Mia has been dealt a bad hand with a life threatening heart condition.  Before she will agree to any life saving surgeries, Mia has made it her mission to seek out and meet her birth mother, who lives in Spain.  Kyle has lived a blessed life up until the car accident that killed his best friend.  Guilt plagues Kyle’s life and his mission is to escape life.  The two are fatefully placed together onto a single path.  A secret trip to Spain is where both hope to find the solace they desperately want.  

Fans of YA romance will get swept away by the story and the characters.  Both characters are easy to like and root for.  The plot takes many emotional twists (as teenagers’ lives often do) into guilt, desperation, joy, love, and everything in between.  Readers who do not enjoy predictable endings will probably feel let down.  Spoiler alert, it’s a “happily ever after” ending.  Readers ages 13 to 18 are the target audience. The book deals with ideas of suicide. 

Reviewed by Heidi Kopishke, Camden Hills Regional High School, Rockport, ME.