Blog Tour Review: Only the Good Die Young – KK Hendin

The first year of college is supposed to be about parties, parties, and getting the hell out of Texas. Instead, Milcah Daniels is spending her eighteenth year in and out of Houston’s hospitals. Her hair is falling out, they’ve cut off her boobs, and if she makes it to nineteen, she’ll consider it a personal miracle.

Breast cancer really has a way of messing with a girl’s social calendar.

When Milcah’s temporarily discharged from the hospital, she’s determined to get a tattoo for every medical procedure she’s had. Her quest leads her to Skin Stories, a new tattoo parlor a block from her apartment. And to it’s infuriatingly sexy artist, Callum Scott.

Callum is everything Milcah wants, and everything she shouldn’t have now. A new relationship when the official prognosis is one to five years is a terrible idea. But Callum doesn’t know about the breast cancer, and Milcah’s not running to tell him.

But when the doctor says things are actually looking positive, her entire life turns upside down. How is she supposed to start living again when she’s finally learned to accept her death?

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Release Date: March 11th 2014
Publisher: Self Published
Source: Inkslinger PR
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3.5 Cocktails

This was a tough one to read.  A book with the main character suffering from cancer is never easy, but eighteen year old Milcah is one that your heart breaks for and you want to throttle at the same time.

Milcah is a sharp-tongued girl who protects herself by being sarcastic and argumentative.  Behind the exterior is a girl who’s doing whatever she can to thumb her nose at cancer and prove that she’s stronger than the illness that has robbed her of so much.  Some might see her as being a bit reckless, but (in my opinion) it was Milcah’s way to gaining control over her life which had most definitely spiraled out of her control and into the hands of the doctors and hospital.

Callum was a a character that I loved.  Even though he didn’t fully understand exactly what was going on with Milcah, he did open up things for her to start learning to live her life…no matter how long she’s here.  Despite herself, Callum gives her something to live for.

This really is a tough read, but it’s also special.  Cancer is ugly and it doesn’t discriminate, but Milcah is a character who’s “screw you” message to cancer and anyone who stands in her way hopes get through loud and clear.

KK Hendin’s real life ambition is to become a pink fluffy unicorn who dances with rainbows. But the schooling for that is all sorts of complicated, so until that gets sorted out, she’ll just write. Preferably things with angst and love. And things that require chocolate. She’s the author of the NA contemporaries HEART BREATHS and ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG.

She spends way too much time on Twitter, where she can be found at @kkhendin, and rambles on occasion over at www.kkhendinwrites.blogspot.com.

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