Delicately crafted, PHANTOM LIMBS by Paula Garner is a beautiful look at grief and loss, at phantom limbs (both people and body parts), friendship, romance, and trying to move on. Otis's voice is so loud and clear with a poetic undertone (heck, they even call him Shakespeare in the book as a nickname because he loves poetry) that I am not surprised this got picked up by Candlewick. Garner has created a truly heart-wrenching book, however I docked one star because the constant "we need to talk" spiel from characters

Spoiler

(until they finally did at 89% on the e-reader)

was a little much. I wished they'd talked sooner as the "mystery" sort of lagged on longer than I thought it needed to.

I read this on my Kindle courtesy of Netgalley and the publisher and I am SO GLAD I got a chance to read this early!!! If you like Jandy Nelson's I'll Give You The Sun (loss and grief and siblings) and books by Chris Crutcher, I think you will really enjoy this one.