Piper 's Reviews > There Will Come a Time

3.5

"I wonder if this is how Grace felt at the end. If there was a moment of peace right after she said my name and the car hit us. Right before she stopped breathing, did she have a brief moment when dying came as naturally as living?"

There Will Come A Time is definitely my favorite book I've read this year so far, Passenger aside. It is a brief contemporary that follows Mark Santos, a seventeen year old music prodigy as he suffers from the tragic loss of his twin sister, Grace.

I really loved this book. Arcos does a wonderful job of making Mark likeable: he's not whiny- he's just angry, confused, and guilty. I also loved the fact that the author incorporated so much diversity in this book. The novel is set in California- so it would be daft of her not to. In addition, Mark is Filipino and it is clear that Carrie has done her research.

“Ghosts are just pieces of memory. They haunt us because we don't want to forget. We are the ghost makers. We take fragments of the dead and project them onto shadows and sounds, trying to make sense of loss by assigning it a new shape. Ghosts aren't real.”

I am so sad that that this book had to end. I loved Mark- he was such an interesting character. I liked how he was actively trying to get better- and not just waiting for his grief to come and pass. I also enjoyed watching him attempt to mend his relationship with his parents, half-sister, best friends, and Hanna- his love interest.

Much like Saving Francesca, there isn't much plot here, but I enjoy well-written character studies. The reason why this book isn't five stars is because of the 3rd act: there wasn't really a "climax" or a "come to jesus moment", and when the book came to a close, it was as if the story just began.