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2021 Readers' Favorite Silver Medalist Seventeen-year-old Aly Bennett has been in love with her friend Luke for years. She hasn't told him how she feels for two reasons. 1) She's the girl with HIV. 2) She lied about how she got it. Aly never meant to lie. The words just slipped out on her first day of a support group for kids living with life-threatening conditions. It was the day she met Luke and Caroline, who would become her best friends and the closest thing she has to a family. After so many years, Aly doesn't know how to tell her friends the truth. So she paints and she runs and she tries not to think about the future she can't have. But when a Boston prosecutor asks Aly to testify in a trial-and her relationship with Luke intensifies-things become complicated. If she testifies, Luke and Caroline will learn the truth-that Aly has been lying to them for most of a decade. If she doesn't, a monster could go free, again.

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""Effectively balancing a believable young cast with high, real-world stakes. . . engrossing.""- Kirkus Reviews ""Mullaly executes the work with finesse, effectively balancing a believable young cast with high, real-world stakes. . . engrossing.""- Kirkus Reviews ""An especially powerful, poignant story that . . . pulls no punches in its descriptions of love, longing, lies, and redemption."" - Midwest Book Review ""Mullaly hits just the right tone in this novel about survival and the unbreakable bonds of friendship."" - US Review of Books ""Amid revelations of tough secrets, Life and Other Complications is a tender novel in which a brave teenager is able to hit reset."" - Foreword Review ""I highly recommend that you get a copy of this book today and tell others. Spread the word.""- Readers' Favorite (5-star review) ""Come for the romance, stay for the razor-sharp sentences, and leave with a deep-seeded realization that you are not alone."" -Independent Book Review ""Thanks to boundary-breaking authors such as Angie Thomas . . . and Laurie Halse Anderson, standards for literature in this age group are higher than ever before. . . Into this group comes Mullaly and Life and Other Complications."" Reedsy Discovery

Mullaly executes the work with finesse, effectively balancing a believable young cast with high, real-world stakes. . . engrossing. - Kirkus Reviews An especially powerful, poignant story that . . . pulls no punches in its descriptions of love, longing, lies, and redemption. - Midwest Book Review Mullaly hits just the right tone in this novel about survival and the unbreakable bonds of friendship. - US Review of Books Amid revelations of tough secrets, Life and Other Complications is a tender novel in which a brave teenager is able to hit reset. - Foreword Review I highly recommend that you get a copy of this book today and tell others. Spread the word. - Readers' Favorite (5-star review) Come for the romance, stay for the razor-sharp sentences, and leave with a deep-seeded realization that you are not alone. -Independent Book Review Thanks to boundary-breaking authors such as Angie Thomas . . . and Laurie Halse Anderson, standards for literature in this age group are higher than ever before. . . Into this group comes Mullaly and Life and Other Complications. Reedsy Discovery

Mullaly executes the work with finesse, effectively balancing a believable young cast with high, real-world stakes. . . engrossing. - Kirkus Reviews An especially powerful, poignant story that . . . pulls no punches in its descriptions of love, longing, lies, and redemption. - Midwest Book Review Amid revelations of tough secrets, Life and Other Complications is a tender novel in which a brave teenager is able to hit reset. - Foreword Review I highly recommend that you get a copy of this book today and tell others. Spread the word. - Readers' Favorite (5-star review)

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