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Till Death Do Us Part (April Lancaster #1)
The doctor's diagnosis for April Lancaster is not good. April has a brain tumor which cannot be operated on. She's only 18, and her future is uncertain. But when she meets Mark Gianni, a 21-year-old with a passion for car racing, things change.
Mark is handsome and charming--and has cystic fibrosis. Despite herself, April falls completely in love with him. April says yes w...more
Mark is handsome and charming--and has cystic fibrosis. Despite herself, April falls completely in love with him. April says yes w...more
Paperback, 214 pages
Published
January 16th 2009
by Laurel Leaf
(first published June 28th 1997)
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I read Till Death Do Us Part as well as the sequel to book called For Better Or For Worse. With my name being April, this book definitly caught my attention. I am a great fan of Lurlene McDaniel books, and every single book i have read of hers i have been satisfied with. I loved reading Till Death Do Us Part. I felt like i related to this book alot. My dad had cancer, and i can sort of relate to how he felt. This book was based about 1...more
I read Till Death Do Us Part as well as the sequel to book called For Better Or For Worse. With my name being April, this book definitly caught my attention. I am a great fan of Lurlene McDaniel books, and every single book i have read of hers i have been satisfied with. I loved reading Till Death Do Us Part. I felt like i related to this book alot. My dad had cancer, and i can sort of relate to how he felt. This book was based about 1...more
This Romance novel by Lurlene McDaniel is about two people with physical and mental challenges meeting and falling in love. April Lancaster is 18 years old when she is admitted into the hospital for a growing brain tumor. There she meets Mark Gianni who suffers from cystic fibrosis. Mark likes April but April's boyfriend is still in the picture. April's boyfriend dumps her though when she gets diagnosed and so she and Mark can pursue a relationship. The two get engaged, even though their parents...more
April has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Mark has been suffering from cystic fibrosis since he was born. While they don’t have much in common, they help each other suffer through their pains and sicknesses and find happiness living for love. When the two decide to get married with no support from either family, they learn how hard it is to fight against everything keeping them apart. Mark’s love for racing cars has always been a debate in his home. His mother is against it because of the poo...more
This book was about a girl named April and she was 18. Because of her health problems, her future is uncertain. She has brain tumor and could not be operated on. She meet Mark who loves car racing and they both fell in love with each other. Mark proposed to her and she said yes. However, Mark got into an accident and his cystic fibrosis worsened. April is struggling to make a decision.
I think that this book is inspiring and really relates to readers because people would face different chal...more
I think that this book is inspiring and really relates to readers because people would face different chal...more
When April Lancaster meets Mark, she learns that love is one tough lession in life. Just likein most of Lurlene McDaniel's books, the main character is ill or in love with someone ill, in thiscase, the character faces both. April is diagnoised with high-grade astrocytoma - a brain tumor - and to her life is over. She feels so alone and scared, until she meets Mark, a boy who is diagnoised with a fataldisease called cystic fibrosis. No matter how hard she trys no to, she ends up falling head over...more
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The book "Till Death do Us Apart" is about a girl named April Lancaster how was a brain tumor. She got a fortune cooke that read "be prepared". Because of her tumor she htought she would never be the same. One day she meet this handsome man named Mark, which has cystic fibrosis. Mark, helps her deal with her illness and they seem to fall in love. However, everyone is against them being together. Even when he proposes to her they are still against the marriage. Howvere, kinda...more
Romance/Fatal Illness
So, for those who love cheesy romance novels, McDaniel has produced yet another, perfect cardboard cutout. There's not really much else to say. We meet both of our protagonists, who are dying of terminal illness, but of course they are meant for each other, and insist on marrying despite the odds. What a pity that - with a terminal illness - they are doomed to die. It's a quick read, but you will have to stomach nasty stereotypes, bad prose, and sickening sen...more
So, for those who love cheesy romance novels, McDaniel has produced yet another, perfect cardboard cutout. There's not really much else to say. We meet both of our protagonists, who are dying of terminal illness, but of course they are meant for each other, and insist on marrying despite the odds. What a pity that - with a terminal illness - they are doomed to die. It's a quick read, but you will have to stomach nasty stereotypes, bad prose, and sickening sen...more
It was ok... I thought that it was just a little bit sappy and predicatable, but I am not a huge sappy romance book reader. I thought that McDanile created interesting and vibrant characters that were engaging. As a story line? Didn't like it so much. I found that it was a very predictable plot that I could have guess five pages in. I don't really like those books, I like to be kept guessing (same thing with movies). I thought that the end was touching where she showed up in her wedding dress, b...more
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This book is definitely worth reading. It is a romantic young adult novel that takes the reader through the normal trials of teenage romance. True to her style, author Lurlene McDaniel adds in a tale of woe that leaves readers sobbing by the end of the book. It is this aspect that gives depth to the story and succeeds in readers begging for more. This book is a must read! As a future English teacher, I would suggest this book for students age twelve to fifteen.
Death is a very serious matter, and so is love. Will you still let yourself love someone is you knew that they'd be gone very soon? April Lancaster can. This book reminds me of Romeo and Juliet, where they can love each other to DEATH.
April Lancaster had everything. Her parents handled her with care, her friends adored her, and life carefree. But it changed after she met Mark Gianni. They met in the hospital, and Mark is awaiting death. The young man fell for April, and after many conve...more
April Lancaster had everything. Her parents handled her with care, her friends adored her, and life carefree. But it changed after she met Mark Gianni. They met in the hospital, and Mark is awaiting death. The young man fell for April, and after many conve...more
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a new spin on the star-crossed romance: she is an uptown WASP with an inoperable brain tumor. he is an Italian from the mean streets who has cystic fibrosis. together they have luv and wedding bell blues.
nothing to recommend, not much to hate on. i did cry some for what that's worth.
nothing to recommend, not much to hate on. i did cry some for what that's worth.
SUPER SAD. Well, this IS Lurlene McDaniel we're talking about.
My Aunt and Uncle both died of C.F. before age 10, so this story hit close to home. Really, really sad. Probably will never re-read, but it was a good one timer.
My Aunt and Uncle both died of C.F. before age 10, so this story hit close to home. Really, really sad. Probably will never re-read, but it was a good one timer.
One of the better Lurlenes I've read -- love that you don't know 'til whose death until the end (it's vaguely unpredictable!) and that there's the hint of real characterization and emotion, even if it's still mondo thin. If only I owned the sequel!
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I could see a lot of middle-school girls liking this. It's a quick read, plenty of sappy romance, and a fairly predictable (tragic) ending. Great for reluctant readers, too.
3/5 on here, 7/10 for myself
3/5 on here, 7/10 for myself
I LOVE this book! April's emotions are so real and the story is so simply told with straightforward feeling and descriptions that make the story flow so smoothly. AMAZING!
A typical sappy romance akin to the adult novelist Nicholas Sparks. Any reader interested in a bitter-sweet romance story would not only love this book, but any book written by Lurlene McDaniel. Till Death Do Us Part focuses on the romance of two very sick teenagers. Mark has cystic fibrosis and April has an inoperable brain tumor. In the novel the typical moments of love happen and culminate in a fairly predictable ending. I found this novel to be much to romantically cheesy for my taste, but m...more
This book is sooo sad, I've read a lot of sad books and this is just another.... but sooo sad! I liked the book, but seriously why'd someone HAVE to die?
Ikria Dorsey
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This book had me crying because i had experince the lost of pain and suffering and the hurt of death for someone you love
It's not often I'm embarrassed about putting books I've read up on goodreads. This is one of them (and that says a lot!)
This story breaks my heart everytime I read it. I started reading Lurlene McDaniel in middle school and fell in love with her stories and characters. I realized that the characters, such as April Lancaster, were people that I really couldn't connect with in a good way. April has a brain tumor and falls in love with a Cystic Fibrosis man named Mark. There's no way that I could identify with either of the characters and how much fear or pain they went through but McDaniel makes every character eng...more
This was a really good book but really sad at the same time.
Athena
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this is another book about love and a story that seems so real
I really liked this series when I was younger.
i cried at the end of this book!
Great Book! I cry whenever I read it.
so sad!!!! read this and the sequel!
Good book and also very sad.
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