Six years ago, Dewayne Falco's life changed. He lost someone he never expected to lose. Resigned to punish himself for something he felt he could have prevented, he goes through life without getting too close to anyone.

What he didn't expect was for the girl across the street to move back home and remind him of what they both lost: Dewayne's younger brother Dustin. However, when a miniature version of Dustin opens the door to greet him, Dewayne realizes he might not have lost everything after all.

Sienna Roy loved Dustin Falco most of her life. He was the boy next door, the high school basketball star and her best friend. But when his life was cut short, she realized he left a part of himself behind.

Now, she's back in Sea Breeze, thankful to have a home for her and Dustin's son, but not sure if she can ever forgive the people across the street who abandoned her when she needed them the most — The Falcos.

Betrayal, lies, and forbidden attraction might end Dewayne and Sienna's story before it's even begun.

Abbi Glines and her serie “Sea Breeze” really was one of my favorite when I was younger and sometimes, when I’m feeling nostalgic I read her books again. 

Every book of this serie can be read a stand-alone book. Some scenes contain sexual contents that may offend the sensibilities of readers.

Plot:

Let me introduce you to the beautiful and heartbreaking story of Dewayne and Sienna’s story. Sienna has always been Dustin’s girl. They were madly in love (at least, that’s what we thought).  But then, Dustin died in an accident. He was Dewayne’s brother, Sienna’s love and he died. She found out at that time that she was pregnant. Her parents – ashamed – decided to send her away without letting her the chance to say goodbye. But now, six years later she is back in her hometown where Dewayne and his family still live.

Lies, misunderstandings, manipulation… Sienna thought Dustin’s parents gave up on her when she sent them pictures of her and Dustin’s son: Micah. This little guy was so funny throughout the book! Then, she finds out that they actually loved her and always have. They want Micah and Sienna to be part of their life.

What is Delirium about? It deals with a world that looks like ours but is completely different. Love is considered as the worst scourge ever. Since she was child, she was brainwashed and with the mother’s suicide when she was younger because she couldn’t go over the loss of Lena’s father, she shared the same belief as her society. She is eager to finally undergo this surgery that is completed on eighteen year-old teenagers to remove the love gene called “deliria”.

Scared of becoming her mother, Lena lives for rules. On the other hand, her best friend Hana lives on the borders of legality. She is the funny and outgoing character. She pushes Lena to follow her and stop living only for rules.

Because of her she is about to meet Alex. And after this, nothing will ever be the same.

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

I remember having this book in my library for quite a while. I also read it two years ago, but anyway… You know, usually I need to be in a very special depressed mood to read a book that I know is definitely going to deal with a very heavy topic. Children with cancer is for sure one of these topics. So I started this book being a little bit depressed and in the perfect mood to actually read it. So I started and... MY! GOD! Didn’t I laugh and cry at the same time! 

Okay, so let me settle down the beginning, the first very few pages. “Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.” (See what I mean now about this book?) Anyway! Hazel is a seventeen year-old teenager who has been living with cancer her whole life. Lately, her mum presumes she is depressed because of the reasons told a few sentences before. Besides, Hazel tried to keep in touch with her high school best friend, but every time they see each other it’s more awkward than anything else. 

Thus, after some persuasion, Hazel decides to humor her mum and goes to Support Group. There, she meets Isaac – a boy who has a cancer from the eyes – and Augustus – who suffered osteosarcoma cancer. Isaac already lost one eye and is about to lose the other one, condemning him to blindness. But instead of taking this in a very tragic tone, John Green turns into a very humoristic tone. I know what you are wondering: how could you possibly take this with humour?! Wait and see, little lambs!