You''ll Miss Me When I'm Gone by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Publisher: Simon Pulse
On Sale Date: January 2nd 2018
Pages: 384
Age Range: Young Adult

Adina and Tovah Siegel are teens who are twins. But further on they have nothing in common; Adina plays viola on a high level and wants to go to a music college to become a pro. She has music lessons from Arjun, and there is something going on between the two of them that is against the rules. Tovah is studying hard to once get accepted in to her dream college to become a surgeon. Her longer goal is to find a cure agains Huntington's disease. 

Their mother Ima, who is from Israel, is suffering from this progressive illness, and in the book, both girls are tested if they have they carry the illness in their genes; Adina tests positive, while Tovah is negative. This turns Adina's world upside down; when will she get the first symptoms, will she die early because of it? Will it ruin her chance to go to college? While Tovah finds comfort in their Jewish religion, Adina rebels against its rules, as it doesn't cure her upcoming illness. She tries to figure out if the relationship with her music teacher is the right choice and both sisters are going off to college in the end, after they solved all the issues they had with each other.

Yess, finally another YA novel that deals with chronic illness. I really liked this book, as I am dealing with a non-curable chronic illness myself. The other red line in the book is the  bond between the two sisters. They really are total opposites of each other, and they have quite some struggles because of that, it just wasn't all happy and pretty in this book and I really liked that!!! This is not a book suitable for very young teens though, as it contains quite some mature scenes and deals with pretty heavy health issues and explicit language. What I also liked about this book was the background from the family, and altough the sisters where not so nice to each other all the time, they truly where a support system together with their dad for their mother, whose illness progresses quite fast in the last part of the book. And the ending was just the perfect one! Overall I found it a very good and impressing read which I highly recommend reading!!!