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Hey Jude
wow, wow, wow. just wow.
4.85 stars <3

"You know I love you, Penny Lane?"
"Hey, Jude, I love you too"

Penny Lane
I initially read this jokingly thinking I would relate to Penny because we’re both 17, starting our senior year with a little sister named Jude and although Penny is going through so much I could never imagine, I could still really relate to her.
Penny is the kind of character you just wanna hug SO BAD. She’s going through so much, but stays in one piece and stay strong for everyone.

"And what about you, Penny Lane?"
"What about me? I’m just trying to exist. You know, keep my crap together."
"I never said it earlier, but I’m sorry about your sister."
"I love her to the ends of the earth."
"Then she’s the luckiest person on earth."

I love how on the surface the book is about Jude’s mental health struggles, but really it’s about Penny’s struggle of taking care of her. It was written so beautifully and in a way that just breaks my heart for her.

"You work so fricking hard. And for what?
"For you, for mom, for life."
"Its all just so exhausting:
"I know," I say. But I whisper it. I never want to make her feel like a burden.

Hey Jude
Jude struggles with depression and this is the first time, for me, where an author captured what depression is like so beautifully.

"I wouldn't sleep so much if life didn't hurt."
"I know."
Do you?"
"No, not really."
"I hope you never know. My everything hurts. I can feel the press of it at all angles. Like I live on a planet all by myself, a heavier planner, with way more gravity. I just want to fly. I want to live on the moon where the gravity is low and I can just soar."

Jude was just such an amazing and interesting character to read about, you never know what’s gonna happen with her. She just, ugh how do I describe it? You can tell that she’s struggling, but she tries so hard to make it hurt less for Penny and it just shatters my heart knowing that people go through this.

It breaks my heart that she might be crashing again. And it scares the crap out of me.

Overall
This book was short, but it didn't need any additions.
It was so close to being a full five stars for me, except that the love interest was hiding something from Penny and I thought that whole other plot line was unnecessary and very random and took away from the story.
Jude and Penny’s relationship was so special and so painfully amazing to read about. I was in tears the whole book and SOBBING at the end. Although the contents are heavy, I definitely recommend <3

"Hey Jude," I say.
"Penny Lane," she whispers.
I told myself not to cry, but I can't help it. I sink down into the chair beside her bed, put my head down on her arm and sob. I feel her hand on my head then, softly stroking my hair.
"She’s in my ears and in my eyes," Jude says, speaking louder over my tears.
And I cry even harder because with those words I know that, at least for now, my sister, my everything, is going to be okay.