Did I think they were a prominent part of the storytelling? No.Īside from the heaviness of the existential and inevitable, everything else in this book reminds me of the happy romance stories I wished to find on bookshelves as a teenager. Did I feel like there were religious themes? Yes.

So, in other words, lots of time for self-reflection. This plot point continuously circulates through Harper’s thoughts because the book is written in first-person, which then forced me to think about what human life is truly about and if there really is any point to it all.

I mean, how could she? It’s everywhere she looks. Harper is gifted and can see the age of death on a person’s forehead, and throughout the entire story, she never lets you forget. I will certainly be reading and reviewing some of her other works in the future. Now, this being my very first official book review, I wanted to read and write about a book with just enough intrigue to give your typical teenage romance story a leg up, and I think Maley successfully achieved that. Siera Maley really had me feeling some type of way while reading through Colorblind, which essentially revolves around the main characters, Harper and Chloe. She is going to be dead by the end of the summer, unless Harper can find a way to stop it.Ĭolorblind is an easy-to-read, light-hearted lesbian love story with a despondent undertone that makes for a truly unique reading experience. That means Chloe doesn’t have twelve months to live. Then she falls for Chloe… whose number is 16. With only one other person in the world who knows about and shares her powers, Harper is determined to keep her distance from everyone. Nothing she does changes this number, and that becomes especially clear when her mother is killed in a car crash. She has a special gift: she can see how old other people will be when they die. Harper has a secret… and it’s not that she likes girls.

Colorblind by Siera Maley