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To preface, I'm going into the book objectively and trying to keep an open mind. With my last attempt at "teen fiction that's not like everything else" (Divergent), it turned out to be like everything else. I also have a prejudice with how it seems like it portrays people growing up with terminal illness (mostly from looking at the movie trailer) because I went through that.

First, there was sexy vampires. Then came sexy zombies! Now, we have sexy terminally ill people (which I may be all for).

The author's note really rubbed me the wrong way for some reason. Just something about it seemed odd.

Five pages into the first chapter, I wanted the narrator to just die on the spot. Yet again, we get an insufferable "angsty" narrator who has given me no reason to care about her (this may be the first time I ever started rooting for cancer). Yes, she's sick, but she doesn't have to seem so high and mighty about it when she's discussing what's wrong with everyone else.

Please tell me that this chick goes through some sort of character change! Please tell me she evolves and actually learns a lesson. Or she dies. Either one works.

And my friends were right: the writing is pretentious as ****. Forget teenagers; I can't imagine any human being actually saying these things in any kind of real situation. Yes, it's good to have witty dialogue with zinger punchlines, but if that's all you're doing, it becomes old hat really fast.

And I know that this is just from the first chapter, but this doesn't feel anywhere near accurate from what it means to grow up terminally ill. It seems that the author had a very vague idea of what it meant and decided to run with that. Granted, I didn't have cancer, but I was knocking on death's door.

Still optomistic about chapter two though.

So, to pass the time, I started watching the new Todd in the Shadows video. I find him humorous, and have an interesting take on current pop music. Half way through watching, I'm handed a note. This is what it reads "What you watching is/ Not good./ Good Bless You/ Please STOP" (these are not my errors).

Now, I could understand if I was watching something something that was strange or not appropriate, but I don't think I was. The review is for that new "All is One" song, and the creator provides the music video clips so there's something on screen. The only thing that I can think of that may have provoked it was when there was a short montage of hit songs from 2005, which included their respective videos. The clips weren't too bad.

I was having a good day, which was probably the reason why I didn't provoke her. I just logged off, walked away, and went on another computer. I decided to take the high road.

It's that Good Bless You (I'm pretty sure she meant to say God Bless You) thing that kind of pisses me off. It's those extra three words that really sinks it in. It's like she's saying "I'm better than you because I don't watch that stuff". I would understand if I was being loud, or the video was bad, but there was no reason for me to provoke her. Hell, she was sitting behind me; our backs are to each other. She went completely out of her way just to prove that she's a better human being than I am.

So, you guys know how to make clear, crystal-like ice, right? You use purified water and boil it.

Now, apply that to Frozen. When Elsa is her powers consciously, the ice is crystallized. But when she's panicking (like when they were kids, and she's reacting to striking Anna), she isn't thinking, and the ice is white.

The whole theme behind the film is that "Love will melt a frozen heart," right? So, love is a representation of warmth; like warm water you need to make crystal ice.

Do with that what you will.