Reviews for All the days of her life

The average rating for All the days of her life based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-09-14 00:00:00 Elena Donchenko ***Spoiler Alert*** Do you like to read about people that have illnesses or have family or life problems? If so then this book is for you. This is a realistic fiction book meaning that this could happen in the real world. This book is about a girl named Lacey Duval who was diagnosed diabetes at age eleven. Know sixteen year old Lacey Duval is having a hard time accepting her illness and her parents divorce. Until she goes to Jenny House and meets great friends, but once she goes back home she goes back to hiding her illness from everyone at school just to fit in and be normal. One day Lacey wants to loose weight so she starts to mess with her shots and giving herself less every time. Then it get's worse she starts making herself vomit and skipping her doctor appointments. Until one day everything goes wrong. During a play at school Lacey starts to feel tired and dizzy and passes out. Her friend tries to wake her but she wont wake, so her friend gets the teacher. On her way to the emergency room Lacey could hear her Uncle giving commands to start a ICU. After staying in the hospital for awhile Lacey was very scared to go back to school and have people be mean to her, but when she got there after school friends for crew where very nice and caring. They throw a surprise party for her to welcome her back to school and she was very surprised at this. The author's word choices well explains how the character is feeling. For example when Lacey and her Uncle they are having a serious conversation about how to control her diabetes.The passage also helps show how Lacey is having a hard time accepting her diabetes. Also, how she blames herself for her parents divorce. In my opinion this book was a very good book. I was very surprised when Lacey had to go to the emergency room and have an ICU. This surprised me because when her uncle/doctor tells Lacey her reports they weren't good. He told her that she could have died. I was very happy that Lacey had survived what could have happened to her. From the scale from 1-5 I would give this book a 4, because this was a very interesting book and I felt like I was in the book with the character. But there were some part that I really didn't like. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read about people with illnesses and sad stories. If you ever do read this book I hope that you like it.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-07-05 00:00:00 John Adams Lurlene McDaniel has been on of my favorite authors since I stumbled across her while I was in middle school. I haven’t picked up one of her books since ninth grade (Telling Christina Goodbye) and now I am wondering just why I waited so long!! Once again Lurlene has managed to spin a tell that kept me wanting more all the time. Instead of lying in bed stressing about bills and other things I can’t control, I laid in bed wondering what was going to come next, what was going to happen and even a time or two I found myself wondering what the characters would be thinking if they were in my place (trying to fall asleep in a dark room). This book is heart warming and amazing. It deals with sickness, high school and wanting to be ‘normal’ (whatever normal might be). Lacey wants nothing more than to fit into the popular crowd, to be loved and accepted by her high school peers. She starts to play around with her medication in order to loose weight and in turn, she makes herself sicker. She even tries to be with someone she knows is a jerk, a ‘player’ and who is just not good for her just because he holds the popular title. She learns who her real friends are as the book progresses and near the end of the book there are more than a few sappy, happy family moments that make me a little jealous that my own family is still more than a little dysfunctional due to divorce. As someone who has family members with diabetes (two of which fail to correctly take care of themselves), this book made me a little sad to see someone who didn’t take her condition seriously enough. It also made me a little happy to see how far we have came scientifically as far as diabetes goes since this book was published (in 1994). No, there is not a cure… not yet… but there is a new insulin pump (link to the American Diabetes Association’s article on the Insulin Pump) that is pretty awesome! I was pretty sad to find out after I read the book that it is book TEN in the One Last Wish series, but I am excited to say I will be looking for the rest of the books. I am dying to know what happens next between Lacey and Jeff. I was not satisfied with the ending because she left it hanging between them in a way that was far from satisfactory for me. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a book that moves fast, is hard to put down, has a deep meaningful story full of lessons about health, family, love, growing up and realizing just what is really important in life. Diabetes is not a joke and it is something that should be taken very seriously. Please take care of yourself if you find that you have diabetes, because failure to do so could result into some more serious health issues. 5 out of 5 stars. ^_^; Read for the 2015 Reading Challenge, for the slot of Set in High School.