RaveMedium[T]his is a damn good book. Plain and simple ... The premise is absolutely horrific ... Raynor Winn puts it so bluntly. And honestly, this book spooked me a little bit. It drew back the curtain and showed life as it really is, stripped of the trappings ... as they start walking, you’re swept away by the waves of Raynor Winn’s really-quite-impressive prose. Nature writing can so often be dull, or at least a bit monotonous, but she does a great job of giving each area they visit its signature imagery. More difficult to digest are the plentiful descriptions of physical pains they’re both going through, which are so vivid on the page that it’s a bit traumatizing. Screaming joints, peeling noses, sweat-soaked clothes hanging off gaunt ribs: it’s the full works here. I haven’t seen a book deal so candidly with the facts of physical illness, well, ever ... This is my kind of love story. Read it, I dare you.
