The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond

Summary:
This book is about a woman named Abby. She tells of her life story and how she falls in love. She meets this one man named Jake. Abby learns that Jake has a little girl named Emma. Abby is trying so desperately for Emma to like her because Abby and Jake are engaged to be married. One day Abby takes Emma to Ocean Beach. As she looks away for a moment Emma is gone. She has lost Emma and it is all her fault. She struggles with this through out the whole book and it tears apart her relationship with Jake. All they want to do is to find Emma. After more then a half year Jake gives up the search and has a memorial for Emma. Abby has not given up hope so she travels to Costa Rica. She goes here because she remembers a couple in a van who might be suspects. Abby knows they are surfers and she is told of the good surfing spots in Costa Rica. While she is down there she stumbles upon Emma after about 3 months and they reunite. Emma is sent back to the states to Jake, and later Abby is too. Jake and Abby's relationship never mends and she is forced to move on with her life.

Review:
It has such a good story and it is worth the read. I think that only girls would be interested in this book because the narrator is a girl and typically guys don't like books narrated by girls. Also it is more about love and desperation and I feel like girls would connect more with that. I liked this book a lot because it had a good message. Also never take what you have for granted.

Quote:
"I cant resist the temptation to bend over the railing and lean into the abyss. I feel a stirring, something internal, imposible to name. A sense of the world opening up, of time unfolding. A dangerous disarming."
-I chose this quote becasue it shows the pressure this character feels towards her situation. It is also very descriptive and it is the characters emotion most of the time.