BOOK REVIEW: All We Have Is Now by Lisa Schroeder

I received the ARC for All We Have Is Now by Lisa Schroeder from Edelweiss in exchange for my honest review.

What do you do with your last day on earth? There are 27 hours and fifteen minutes left until an asteroid strikes North America, and, for Emerson and everyone else who didn't leave, the world will end. But Emerson's world already ended when she ran away from home last year. Since then she has lived on the streets, relying on her wits and her friend Vince to help her find places to sleep and food to eat. The city's quieter now that most people are gone, and no one seems to know what to do as the end approaches. But then Emerson and Vince meet Carl, who tells them that he has been granting people's wishes. He gave his car away so a woman could take her son to see the ocean for the first time, and he gives Emerson and Vince all the money he has in his wallet. Suddenly this last day seems full of possibility. Emerson and Vince can grant a lot of wishes in 27 hours --- maybe even their own.

This is one of those books that stayed with me long after I finished it. This book asks the question: what would you do with one day left until the world ends?

Emerson and Vince are homeless teenagers who have been living on the streets together for the last year and a half. They have been through so much together. They have seen each other at their worst and done everything they could to survive together. Now there is an asteroid headed to North America and they have twenty eight hours to live. Emerson and Vince aren't sure what they want to do in these last twenty eight hours, but they do know that whatever it is, they want to do it together.

Emerson and Vince meet Carl, a man who has spent the last few hours helping people make their wishes come true. Carl ends up giving them his wallet full of money and tells them to pay it forward. So they do. And Emerson and Vince spend the next several hours searching for people who have wishes or regrets and trying their best to make their wishes come true.

I absolutely loved the friendship between Emerson and Vince and I loved their developing romance even more. They were so incredibly sweet together. Actually, I loved all the characters. The book is about Emerson and Vince and it's also about Carl and all these other characters they come into contact with and change in some way or another. This book was so filled with emotion and suspense that I stayed up until 2 am reading this book because I just could not bear to put it down. I wanted to find out if the world really ended and what happened to all these amazing characters. This was such an amazing book. A must read! 

Buy/Borrow/Skip: Buy this one!!