Empecé a leer este libro en la tarde, lo tome solo por qué era delgadito y no tenía tan malas críticas, pero cuál fue mi sorpresa... Fue un libro que me ha encantado.

Este es un libro que habla sobre el Cancer pero no es deprimente, ni mucho menos desalentador, al contrario es un libro donde el protagonista nos da esa picardía que hace animar la historia.
Richard es un protagonista muy acorde a su situación, como ya lo mencioné su forma de ser de decir las cosas muy a cuerdo a sus 17 años, y el hecho que este en un hospital, específicamente en el piso de los enfetmos terminales, jamás se deja caer por su enfermedad, y como él dice "su deber es mantener la vida con chispa", a pesar de sus problemas familiares y todo lo que su madre tiene que hacer para sacarlo a delante sola, él saber salir a delante solo, bueno ni tan solo que tiene a su "amiga" Sylvie de la habitación 302 que es su compuañera de aventuras y travesuras.

Es un libro que se lee muy rápido, una historia que te atrapa desde la primera página, la pluma de la autora es maravillosa si duda seguiré leyendo más de sus novelas.
Hablando de la historia en general tengo que decir que en ocaciones se me hizo que pasaban cosas un poco irrealistas en la facilidad de.... (Spoiler) escapes.
De ahí en fuera todo estuvo bien no es apresurada, ni tampoco muy lenta, siempre nos da solo lo que queremos leer, sin embargo tengo un pero, el papa de Sylvie, entiendo que ver a una hija morir no es fácil, a eso acumulado loa estrés del trabajo y la vida cotidiana, pero tratar así al al pobre Rich-Man no se me hace justo, es un humano que no controla su ira, a demás que dejaba sola a su hija en las noches para beber ósea... Qué clase de padre es?

Sin duda un muy muy bue libro me encanto y lo recomiendo bastante.
4/5

Not your typical ending to a teen novel. Pretty good book. Reminds me a lot of the short lived "Red band society" television show.

3,5/5
Ce n'est pas un coup de cœur mais j'ai trouvé les personnages singuliers, uniques et tous extraordinaires dans leur genre.
Ce livre n'a absolument rien à voir avec Nos Etoiles Contraires malgré un contexte légèrement similaire.

For people who liked The Fault in our Stars, but wished it was terrible.

I'm not one who enjoys reading about tragedies, fictional or otherwise. I take everything too personally and am way too easily heartbroken, so I went into this book with a bit of trepidation. I was assured it was a comedy and that I wouldn't cry. They were so wrong.

Yes, there are comedic aspects here, the opening elevator lobby scene is one of the best. But the realism that is written here, of what it's like to be in the hospice all day every day, not as a visitor losing a loved one but losing your own life, that's a bit hard to handle. Especially at the point where we discover Little Richard. That had me crying, and made sure that I won't be reading this one again. Comedies shouldn't make me cry!

Honestly could not finish this book back in 2013 and I remember just really being annoyed with the characters.

After having just read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, I couldn’t help but compare the genius and wittiness of that book to this one. This one fell short where TFIOS succeeded. Leaving the comparisons aside there were many bits and pieces I scoffed at, often the way the main character and the only other teen in hospice being seemingly obsessed with sex and the lack of awareness of the employees there.

While I can understand turning a blind eye here and there, certain things that led to downfalls in the book were too far fetched for me to get behind. Maybe it’s my nursing background getting in the way of the story. Had Richie been a bit of a better person, I might have felt more for him, but his smart-ass attitude never won me over. I get that he’s a teenager and a teenager in hospice, but the kid is just a brat over and over again and I couldn’t get past that ever.

Book Received: For free from publisher in exchange for an honest review
Reviewer: Jessica of Book Sake

Seamon, Hollis. Somebody Up There Hates You. Algonquin Young Readers, 2013.

Richard is a typical teenager - he's snarky, sarcastic, hates having people tell him what to do, and imagines his girlfriend naked approximately once every 2.4 seconds. Oh, and he's dying. Richard is in hospice care, which means he's got less than one month to live. This story follows Richard's antics on the hospice floor where he's spending his last days.

I enjoyed the fact that Richard was pictured as a normal teenager - he played tricks on Halloween, he wanted to clean up before a "date" with his girlfriend, he worried about his mom. I was also glad that the book did not end with Richard's death, which would have been unbelievably depressing, This was just a story of a kid who doesn't want to die but realizes that he probably will soon, and until then he's going to enjoy his life as much as he can.

Recommended for: teens
Red Flags: language, some fairly graphic descriptions of sex between Richard and his hospice girlfriend
Overall Rating: 4/5 stars

Coup de coeur infini...

This book is a story about a teen in hospice. Not a subject one might think is great for a book for youth. This is the beauty of why I love young adult literature. Many YA books are raw and so real I can relate to them. Cancer and death are subjects that do not care about your age. While I haven't experienced hospice, I have watched someone I love die over a few months. It was interesting to read the experience from the dying persons point o view. Wether it was spot on or not doesn't matter because how would one truely know? This is a good read about coping for all involved, love, anger, unfinished business and acceptance.